Hello. I'm a psychologist and full-time counselor based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My specialties are Cognitive Behavior Therapy and workplace counseling. Outside of work my joys are painting, photography and digital imaging.

My passion is ...

Digital art and photography

I know too much about ...

psychotherapy

My parents always told me ...

any lock that one person can invent, another can pick!

My childhood ambition ...

to be a spy

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sliding down Spencer's Bute in Eugene Oregon

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to share ideas

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history programs

My first job ...

in a drug store

My best moment ...

realising I've done a lot of what I dreamed about as a kid

My inspiration ...

skies - sunsets, storm clouds and soft afternoon light

Arts & Humanities > Awareness & Reality Lying alters the vision of reality

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Technically, you could say that any new piece of information changes your reality. Even if it's just an item you hear on the news, the picture you have of the world will be slightly altered. The question is more whether lying or being lied to makes unique and additional changes to one's reality and, if so, how?

Being lied to will only change your reality beyond simple information if it's discovered. If you never find out that something is untrue, your perceptions will be the same as if it were true. But if something you were told and believed then proves to be a lie, it can shake four d...

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