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Max
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08-12-2000

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Contemporary psychiatric studies and texts no longer label homosexuality as an abnormality. I think that stopped back in the '80s or perhaps even earlier.

My thoughts expressed on the matter, however, are not trying to prove a medical point, but to discuss things in terms of human interaction and relationships.

Oh, and feelings are not always equated to physical sources. If they were, then psychology students everywhere would have a much easier time of understand human behavior. All of us have filters through which we view the world. These filters are based on our past experiences and how we have interpreted and internalized them. When you experience any situation the way you interpret the event is guided by your filters. Thus, one person's pain can be another's pleasure.

Human beings are not simple creatures and scientific analysis of behavior is only the tip of the iceberg; there is so much more complexity to the whole picture that constitutes the human race.



Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 4:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Auntiemike, I completely agree about the teasers and repeat footage. The show High School Reunion is the same way.

Jodied75
Member

08-26-2004

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<> Max, Thank you for such a nice and eloquent response.

<QT>

Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Even in a medical sense, "abnormal" is used differently from "atypical". Abnormal carries the connotation of not functional, and hense has a sense of an undesirable difference; whereas atypical is a word used where the difference is benign as in sexual preference. These are the more current uses of those terms.

Yes, everything emotional is chemical and chemistry has an effect on our emotions. However, it does not follow that chemistry is solely responsible for our emotions; or that chemistry and emotions are one and the same. As Max astutely pointed out, our cognitions also determine our emotions. And our cognitions having given rise to certain emotions, then determine our chemistry.

One excellent example of the difference between biochemistry of emotion and cognition is the changes in body chemistry that occur when one is excited and one is frightened. Whether you win the lottery or are confronted by a mugger, your body reacts the same--biochemically speaking, there is no difference. However it is your interpretation of the event that causes you to call what you are feeling fear or excitement.

Puzzled
Member

08-27-2001

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 5:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with everybody about the repetitive teasers and recaps of what we've just seen.

BTW--Sunshyne's right--abnormal means different from what's average or the norm, and is not necessarily bad.

It would be abnormal for someone to be tall in a family where everyone is short, e.g.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sooo I guess no one knows who's on the next show.

Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sigh, in psychological terms (which is what we are speaking of)....

The most common criterion for defining abnormality, however, is maladaptiveness. There are two aspects of maladaptive bahvior:
1. Maladaptive to one's self - inability to reach goals, to adapt to the demands of life and
2. Maladaptive to society - interferes, disrupts social group functioning.



Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok here's the next episode:

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 10/9c
Pyke/Smith
A wife who gave up everything to indulge her husband's fantasy of living by traveling around in a cramped, converted bus trades lives with a spunky, home-centric mother of three whose workaholic mortician husband spends more time with the dead than the living.



Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mocha, just for you:

Wife Swap
Feb 16 09:02pm
Series/Reality, 58 Mins.

"Pyke/Smith"
A woman whose husband insists they live in a converted bus traveling the country swaps places with a woman whose mortician husband spends more time with the dead than the living.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and the following week:

Wife Swap
Feb 23 09:02pm
Series/Reality, 58 Mins.

"Flummerfelt/Bray"
Two integrated families swap lives and push racial stereotypes to the limit.


Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol thanks Jb.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's me; a day late and a dollar short!

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max, thank you for your excellent response, which presents the most intriguing understanding of a complex issue precisely because it sees the issue in its complexities.

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Abnormal carries the connotation of not functional, and hense has a sense of an undesirable difference; whereas atypical is a word used where the difference is benign as in sexual preference"
This is nothing more than a person's theory based on their understanding of complex medical issues. This is not how we use the words at work.

{self modded) I truly believe that people should not be mislead by comments such as above.

Atypical = not the normal
Abnormal = not the normal

We interchange these words depending on what we are talking about. Neither have 'secret connotations' of what they mean.

(self modded again )



Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok can we actually talk about the show?? I tried to be subtle and lord knows I'm the queen of off topic but dang it's like beating a dead horse.

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YES PLZ !! Waiting for the next show with bated breath!!


Jodied75
Member

08-26-2004

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Next show please!

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm looking forward to seeing how the gal from the big, fancy house does cooped up in that RV for a couple of weeks! I'm betting it ain't gonna be pretty!! :-)


Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hope it's one of those megamillion RV's they've showed on Hgtv.

Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, we can talk about the show, but we also have a right to correct misinformation when we see it. Especially when our own posts are labeled as misleading; thus an attempt to impugn one's integrity deserves comment, I believe.

So, if you're not interested, just skip right over this post. :-)

The dictionary definitions of abnormal and atypical do not apply (and I won't comment on the idea that some dictionary definitions weren't included in the above post); since it is how they are used in psychology that matters; when we are talking about biopsychological issues.

Abnormal psychology is NOT synonymous with atypical psychology. Abnormal psychology is the study of mental disorders, not just deviation from the norm.

For example, abnormal psychology does not study geniuses, even tho they are different from the norm.

It is very important to be clear about these issues, since they do have great effect on people's lives.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<skipped> :-)

Jodied75
Member

08-26-2004

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm interested, Karuuna. I can't say what I want to say, because I'll get modded, but I'm grateful that you point out "It is very important to be clear about these issues, since they do have great effect on people's lives." ....it is important to me.


Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 7:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Mocha, I have this image of you skipping down the thread.... beautiful hair bobbing along.

Thanks, Jodied. it is important to me too. But I think future discussion ought to be moved to the N&V area, so others can get back to discussing the show.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree,thanks so much. This is a show I watch for entertainment. This in depth discussion is a little too close to home and it just doesn't belong here.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lolol!