Does your child wave hello to others? Do you know when she’s upset? Parents who take five minutes to fill out the answers to questions such as these during their child’s first-year checkup could give pediatricians the jump on diagnosing autism, according to new research. In a federally funded study…
Continue reading …If you currently have a dog, cat, hamster, or bird living in your house, you should stop calling it your “pet” and instead refer to it as a “companion animal,” academics recently suggested. As for yourself, you may legally be the animal’s owner, but you should refer to yourself as…
Continue reading …What with her meat dresses and egg chariots, Lady Gaga has all the makings of a kooky godmother. Gaga, who is exactly that to Elton John’s son, is just one of the celebrity godparents rounded up in a Daily Beast slideshow: Elton John : In a tight-knit circle o’ godparents, he…
Continue reading …Penguin just acquired a memoir that promises to bring you into the life of famously reclusive author Harper Lee, and even reveal why she never wrote another novel after To Kill a Mockingbird . Just one problem: Lee, who has not given a public interview in 45 years, says she had…
Continue reading …It’s not about sex. There’s something about yourself you have to come to terms with, says Pamela Stephenson Connolly Last night I had a sexual dream about my father. I don’t often have sex dreams but when I do, my dad features in them quite a lot. In the dream it is never taboo or unpleasant, but I wake up feeling disturbed and disgusted with my subconscious. In real life I have a good relationship with him and I’ve never been abused. I’ve had a couple of satisfying sexual relationships with guys my own age (I’m in my mid-20s) and am not aware of any issues relating to this topic except that my dad came out when I was a young teenager, and for a while I was worried anyone I ended up with would also turn out to be gay. Could the dreams be confronting that fear? Or is it fairly normal to have taboo dreams? It is certainly common to have dreams depicting taboo acts, but their meanings are usually more complex. Your recurring dreams are not really about having sex with your father. Dreams give an insight into the unconscious mind. If your father in your dream represents a part of you, which part would it be? Perhaps it’s a part of you with which you have a strong, unconscious desire to connect – but of which you’re afraid. The feeling of the dreams is pleasant, so if there is something about yourself you have yet to come to terms with (whatever your father in your dream represents) it’s something you’ll eventually welcome on a conscious level. • Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders. •Send your problem to private.lives@guardian.co.uk Sex Relationships Pamela Stephenson Connolly guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …It’s not about sex. There’s something about yourself you have to come to terms with, says Pamela Stephenson Connolly Last night I had a sexual dream about my father. I don’t often have sex dreams but when I do, my dad features in them quite a lot. In the dream it is never taboo or unpleasant, but I wake up feeling disturbed and disgusted with my subconscious. In real life I have a good relationship with him and I’ve never been abused. I’ve had a couple of satisfying sexual relationships with guys my own age (I’m in my mid-20s) and am not aware of any issues relating to this topic except that my dad came out when I was a young teenager, and for a while I was worried anyone I ended up with would also turn out to be gay. Could the dreams be confronting that fear? Or is it fairly normal to have taboo dreams? It is certainly common to have dreams depicting taboo acts, but their meanings are usually more complex. Your recurring dreams are not really about having sex with your father. Dreams give an insight into the unconscious mind. If your father in your dream represents a part of you, which part would it be? Perhaps it’s a part of you with which you have a strong, unconscious desire to connect – but of which you’re afraid. The feeling of the dreams is pleasant, so if there is something about yourself you have yet to come to terms with (whatever your father in your dream represents) it’s something you’ll eventually welcome on a conscious level. • Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders. •Send your problem to private.lives@guardian.co.uk Sex Relationships Pamela Stephenson Connolly guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Gas prices are soaring, and so are Exxon Mobil’s profits. The oil giant raked in $10.65 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2011, its best performance since the gas price spike of 2008. The $2.14-per-share profit well exceeded analysts’ $2.04 estimates, the AP reports. The…
Continue reading …Ralph Nader isn’t holding his breath waiting for President Obama to go down in flames Jimmy Carter-style. “The stars are aligned” for Obama’s reelection, Nader writes in a Bloomberg op-ed. Here’s why: The Republican primary field is littered with hardcore ideologues. “Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump and others might…
Continue reading …Steven Tyler graces two magazine covers this week, waxing nostalgic about “snorting everything” a few years back in Rolling Stone while telling People how he gets high nowadays, even without drugs. When Aerosmith tried to record a new album a couple years ago, Tyler and Joe Perry did drugs together…
Continue reading …You’ve never read The Picture of Dorian Gray —at least not as Oscar Wilde intended it. The uncensored original manuscript is about to be published for the first time, more than 120 years after the classic’s initial release. Before the book’s original serialized publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890,…
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