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I have seen only one episode. It comes to my mind that feeling of incompleteness haunts the being for ever. Each wants to be complete being. Psychopathology comes out of incompleteness in our different layers of consciousness - outer, inner and inner core. So, it acts as the strong motivator. Incomplete feeling regulates our neuro-chemical systems adversely. Through such technique, person can overcome incomplete feeling. This does not mean that person will be totally complete. Incompleteness to complete and complete to incomplete is a recycle process that leads searching behaviour in our consciousness.

Yesterday was the last day for my theory teaching in Rabindra Bharati University. In this semester, I taught them the followings: 1. Language development 2. Intellectual development 3. Emotional development 4. Personality Development 5. Case-history taking 6. Mental status examination 7. Muti-Axial systems of DSM-IV 8. General assessment functioning of Children and adults Social dance facilitates cognitive and social development :

19.12.09 Respected Ms. R. Roy Choudhury,Managing Trustee, Ms. Nita Sethia, Associate Managing trustee, Ms Anuradha Das, distinguished personalities in the dias -Professor Nilanjana Sanyal, Professor Pushpa Mishra, Dr.Bhargava, Professor Bakshi and distinguished delegates, I am thankful to you all for giving me opportunity to inaugurate Uttaran Resource Centre under Tarun Sinha Memorial trust for promotion of mental health. Currently, we are passing through a transition period. The transition between consciousness and no consciousness or between consciousness and faulty consciousness. A large number of people specially our younger generation, income generation groups ans seniors are the victims of the transition. They are gradually loosing psycho social immunities namely feeling of security, interpersonal trust, social support, autonomy in decision making, security feeling and feedback systems.This results high incidence in mental illness. According to a recent World bank study, mental ...

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On 14th and 15th August, I visited one very big petroleum plant and interviewed several panel engineers in the control rooms. I noticed that several judgments of the engineers based on the panel data The panels are like: . They observe, monitor changes and take control operations. During the operations, they give priority on quality control, safety and others. Slight delay or poor calibrations can create huge loss (crore in terms of rupees) of the company. Other problems are job is monotonous and under their capacity utilization. This results high attrition rate. In other words, executive functions of working memory and attitudes play critical role in job success and company excellence. Is any body here who are doing researches on job or ability taxonomy of panel engineers ? Some survey was conducted but not related to individual or team productivity. So, the survey results are not very much conclusive.

It is a nice experience to spend some time with the President, Director,Advisor, Mentor of Jyotirmay school of business. I was invited by the Director as an expert to select faculties across different levels. The institute has high vision to develop business capability among the students. In the process of interview, it comes to my mind that the Institute gives priority on different management methodology, techniques and tools besides depth in subject oriented knowledge. Candidate of economics, computer science, statistics perform better if they will be able to relate their knowledge with problems of management. For example, one knows about oracle or C++ or SAP, he must be confident in application of those programming in business solutions like ERP. I think that this is good approach, if the students are aware of methodology, he can innovate new techniques to solve business solutions. Another area is more important. This is knowledge about full process. For example, mere awareness of ...

WORKSHOP ON READING AND WRITING MOTIVATION Organized by Psychology Research Unit INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata-700 108 20.7.2009 (Monday, 11 AM to 5 PM) Objective : Objectives of workshop are to disseminate knowledge about (a) reading and writing difficulties of disabled and non-disabled students in primary and secondary schools and (b) reading and writing motivation strategies. Who can apply: Senior teachers in primary and secondary schools, school counselors, school psychologists, Project investigators and administrative officers of the Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations, Faculty members of Universities or Research Institutes and Ph.D. scholars in Psychology, Education and Social work. Seats: Very limited to maintain homogeneity. Only experienced persons will be invited. Traveling allowance : No TA will be given for participating into the workshop. Foods & Accommodation: Working lunch will be served along with Tea and Coffee during the workshop. No accommoda...

Institutional Clusters to improve Academic activities To: IndianPsychologists @yahoogroups. co.in Date: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009, 7:55 AM This regional inequality can be controlled by formation of psychology cluster. Cluster can be formed in considering expertise on specific field. For example, cognitive psychology cluster will be formed with Allahabad, Benaras, Delhi, Mysore, Bhubaneswar and Calcutta university. Clinical psychology cluster will be formed with departments providing M.Phil in clinical psychology. Departments providing knowledge above the post graduation can be incorporated in this cluster based on their expertise. So, NIMHANS, CIP, IITs, IIMs, ISI., IISC, TISC, XIBM, XISS will get entry in this cluster. The function of cluster will be inter exchange of faculties, PG students and Research fellows for training and development in need based areas. Function of each cluster will be to reduce inequality within the group. This will strengthen their own internal system and regiona...

Data organization Data entry by dialog Matrix manipulation Transpose Data sorting Simultaneous analysis in multiple worksheet Data quality Identification of missing values Identification of incorrect values Data dispersion Variable wise data representation Visual data analysis Web: http://people.umass.edu/evagold/excel.html http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/excel/excel.htm

ANNOUNCEMENT WORKSHOP ON READING AND WRITING MOTIVATION Organized by Psychology Research Unit INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata – 700 108 20.7.2009 (Monday, 11 AM to 5 PM) Objective : Objectives of workshop are to disseminate knowledge about (a) reading and writing difficulties of disabled and non-disabled students in primary and secondary schools and (b) reading and writing motivation strategies. Who can apply : Senior teachers in primary and secondary schools, school counselors, school psychologists, Project investigators and administrative officers of the Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations, Faculty members of Universities or Research Institutes and Ph.D. scholars in Psychology, Education and Social work. Seats : Very limited to maintain homogeneity. Only experienced persons will be invited. Traveling allowance : No TA will be given for participating into the workshop. Foods & Accommodation : Working lunch will be served along with Tea and Coffee during t...

Recently, I visited one conveyer belt factory by the request of HR manager in order to give suggestions on accident control. Here is my suggestion: Date of factory visit: 11th June, 2009 1. Cutter gripper: Gripper is slippery. It should be non smooth; 2. Use of cutter: Proper attention should be taken care of to handle the cutter specially during rushing from one worksite to other; Cutter should pay attention to the cutting point. 3. Uneven floor: Some alert sign like white line can be drawn on the uneven area in order to draw other’s attention specially during rushing hours; 4. Signal: Based on risk factor analysis, accident sites should be identified. Some blinking red light may be arranged at the probable accident site if there is no other possibility to remove probable cause of accident. 5. Machine height: Machine height should be higher than man’s height. If it is not possible, keep alert message there; 6. Safety notes: Safety issues related to each job of the worker should be pro...

Indian Institute of Psychometry, Kolkata invited me to conduct summer training program on survey data analysis from 11-12, 14-17th May, 2009. I have learned many things through this training. Some of them are given below: Teaching aids: 1. One computer for each participant; 2. Each computer should be linked to the mother computer through which projection on the screen will be made; 3. Suitable statistical softwares should be in each computer; 4. Room should be air conditioned; 5. Instead of screen, it is better to use big white board on which instructor or trainee can write with marker pen and can clean with specific duster. Instructor Subject specific instructor should be there so that extracted results can be properly interpreted. Problems It is better to concentrate on data analysis problems instead of theory development. The title should be on data analysis. For example: Inter-rater agreement; Discriminant function analysis; Predicting group differences; Assessing Group differences...

Albert Bandura suggested that environment causes behavior, true; but behavior causes environment as well. He labeled this concept reciprocal determinism: The world and a person’s behavior cause each other. Later, he went a step further. He began to look at personality as an interaction among three “things:” the environment, behavior, and the person’s psychological processes. These psychological processes consist of our ability to entertain images in our minds, and language. At the point where he introduces imagery, in particular, he ceases to be a strict behaviorist, and begins to join the ranks of the cognitivists. In fact, he is often considered a “father” of the cognitivist movement! Ref: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/bandura.html Here is one example. I get this from one of the members of Indian Psychologist group in Yahoo. She wrote: HI a new member in family but in profession 4 yrs Intially i went athrough all the things mentioned here, and it was to some extent heart sha...

The pressures of law enforcement put officers at risk for high blood pressure, insomnia, increased levels of destructive stress hormones, heart problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, University at Buffalo researchers have found through a decade of studies of police officers. UB researchers now are carrying out one of the first large-scale investigations on how the stress of police work affects an officer's physical and mental health, funded by a $1.75 million grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The National Institute of Justice added $750,000 to the study to measure police officer fatigue and the impact of shift work on health and performance. John M. Violanti, Ph.D., research associate professor in UB's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, is principal researcher of the study, called the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress (BCOPS) study....

2007-08 NON-SBI : UCO (1.76), UBI (1.99) (L); Union bank of india,(5.39) IDBI (8.86) (H) SBI group : State bank of Saurastra (0.74), Bikaneer and Jaipur(2.73) (L) Hyderabad (4.35), Indore (3.73) (H) All NON-SBI: 3.77 crores SBI :3.62 crores Criteria: Profit per employee Source Ref: http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publications/PDFs/87122.pdf Students: Rajiv Biswal (Non-SBI) and Deb Kumar Saha(SBI)

I have prepared the following 10 parameters based on ratio scale and they are assumed to be correlated with each other. So they can form a meaningful structure. One can use if for assessing effectiveness of psychology department in university. 1. Total teachers/Total Students; 2. Total Classrooms /Total students; 3. No. of Professial courses/Total Teachers; 4. No. of students obtained more than 55% >/Total students; 5. No. of Professial courses/No. of teachers; 6. No. of Professial courses(if experimental)/No. of experimental labs; 7. No. of journal publications/No. of teachers; 8. Amount of grants received for attending conferences/No. of teachers; 9. Utilization of amount/Amount of grants received for publications; 10.Utilization of amount for training,workshop,seminars/Amount of grants received for the same.

18th April, 2009 Negative intrusive thoughts One theory of OCD is fighting against negative intrusive thoughts. Today, one patient of 37 years having preference to Rabindrasangeet is asked to sing a song. She has started singing " Aloker ei jharnadharay dhuiye dao". She has said that most frequently she sings this song. After analysis of the song, it appears that patient is trying to come out from the negative intrusive thought that she is dirty. This poor self concept is conditioned with faulty superstitions maintained by her mother during her first statge of menstruation. Patient is deconditioned with the faulty reinforcements using that Rabindrasangeet. The result is very interesting. Yesterday, patinet takes more than 10 hours in toilet, today, she takes 2 and half hours. ================================================================================= 28th July, 2008 Response prevention is the best treatment of OCD to dirt. With this assumption, I have used music therap...

All chair persons, resource persons and registered participants (except 1, can not attend because of salary payment issue) attended the workshop. Their gracious presences make our workshop success. Our research fellows and project assistants and scientists take part as rapporteurs and vote of thanks (Final schedule: http://www.isical.ac.in/ws/disaster.html"). This helps them to learn how to organize the workshop. When they will be in the different organizations, they can organize different training programs and workshops for the growth of the organization. During welcome address as convener, I have pointed out that this workshop will explore four things: (a)disaster perspectives ;(b)Psycho-social crisis patterns;(c)Psycho-social support strategies; (d)Assessment of trauma and psycho-social support evaluation; Disaster perspectives : Though my intention was to limit within the boundary of natural disaster, during the discussion and giving examples, it expands to man-made disa...

Below are the songs used in the slideshow: Chokher aloy dekhechilem chokher bahire Ami keboli swapan karechi bapan batase Emni karei jay jadi din jak na, Amar hiyar majhe lukiye chile Ami jwalbo na Tomay niye khelechilem khelar gharetekhelar putul bhenge geche pralayy jhaarete Amar poran jaha chay tumi tai, tumi tai Gotoma chhara ar e jogote mor keho nai, keho nai Go. Swapnamadir neshay mesha e unmattata jagay dehe mone eki bipul byatha Keteche ekela biraher bela akashkusum chayane” (depression) Jani tomar ajana nahi go ki ache amar mone.Ami gopan karite chai go, dhara pare du nayane. Ki bolite pache ki boli tai dure chale jai keboli. Kandale tumi more bhalobasari ghaye- Nibir bedanate pulak lage gaye Keno jamini na jete Keno sara din dhire dhire Sakhi bohe gelo bela, shudhu Amar ekti katha banshi jane Ami bhoy karbo na bhoy karbo na” Jadi tor daak shune keu na ase tabe ekla chalo re” Ektuku chona lage Eto din je bosechinu Akash bhara surya tara Aloker ei jharna dharay Ananda dhara b...

Just at 2-30 I reached at the Amrapali from where procession started at 3-20 PM. I wore violet colored special dress and yellow colored scarf arranged for this auspicious purpose. In the dias, my seat no. was 11 behind first row. Professor Mriganka Sur gave convocation address on Brain and Mind.

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2. Rabindrasangeet is a journey to Whole or completeness 3. CONSCIOUSNESS PARADIGM Inner Core Layer Inner Layer -Harmony with -Vividness Environment -Orderliness -Aesthetics -Complexity -Cleanliness Outer Layer: -Missing -Anomalies 4. A Journey  Rabindrasangeet is a journey from outer layer to inner core through inner layer of consciousness. – \"Chokher aloy dekhechilem chokher bahire\"; (outer layer) – \"Antare aaj dekhbo, jakhan alok nahi re\" (inner layer) – \"Dharay jakhan dao na dhara hriday takhan tomay bhara, ekhon tomar apan aloy tomay chahi re\" (innercore layer) 5. Characteristics of 3 layers  The outer layer or Murta : What we sense through our five sensory organs; It is tangible and measurable.  The inner layer or the Raaga : The meaning carried by the sensory stimuli. It is attached with emotion; It is apperception. It can be measured through quasi continuous scale. It is mixed with error variance.  The inner core layer or Saraswa...

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Sub: Achievement of EC member Dear Sir, This refers to your request to submit some of my recent contribution in Psychology. Rabindra Bharati University’s BT Road campus will next month become the first institution to start a Performing Arts Therapy course approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) . As member of the advisory board of the said centre, I included Psychology in this course. Now the students will understand the principles of psychology in improvising performing art therapy to alleviate pain, and psychiatric disorders, remedial teaching etc. They will learn Introduction to psychology, Developmental psychology, Psychology in performing art, Psychopathology and psychotherapy. There is no such course in India. Teachers will teach above subjects by using music, dance and drama. Again, learning psychology by using the performing art pedagogy is innovative approach. The other achievements are conducting several workshops, lecture programs in different Government (Depart...

My Sir "Late Professor Amitava Chattopadhyay " was a Sage as I discovered from his writings published in Ritam, bilingual quarterly journal devoted to life and works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, their ideas, thoughts and teachings and also Indian and World culture. He was the Editor of this journal. Source of the Journal: Uttarpara Sri Aurobindo Parishad, Sarasi Kunja, Mandirbati Ghat, 150 G.T. Road, P.O.: Uttarpara, Dt Hooghly, W.B.,Pin-712258, Phone: 033-2663 8362 (6 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Here is my tribute to my Sir. Please read it and make comments. Please read another blog about his academic career, comments of his colleagues, students etc. here : http://ddroydiary.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-sir-passed-away.html With regards, Dr. D. Dutta Roy Editorial Late Professor Amitava Chattopadhyay (Ritam, Vol.5, No.1, pp.3-8) The Message Divine It would certaintly not be a figure of rhetoric to say that Sri Aurobindo was an original thinker and like all great philosophers he always re...