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PSYCHOLOGY NEWS After seven grueling months of planning, Wyatt Ehrenfels is off to Europe on yearlong "castle tour" for dual fiction/nonfiction projects. PSYCHOLOGY NEWS fireflySun announces staff shakeup. Communications officer resigns after 4 years. Task of writing for psychology blog falls to long-time supporter through 2006-2007. PSYCHOLOGY NEWS Student to Ehrenfels: "The APA got it wrong and you got it right; I can tell because I am experiencing what you are writing about." See campaign mail bag ("Response"). PSYCHOLOGY NEWS Wyatt Ehrenfels 'feature author' of upcoming book event. Details to come. PSYCHOLOGY NEWS Research psychologist John P. Smith writes in reference to the new APA journal, "I have to believe you're responsible for APA's sudden interest in dreaming. In fact, I thought I was dreaming when I saw the prominent position it received." PSYCHOLOGY NEWS On way out of academia, psych prof announces plans to write book about experiences, requests feature story on fireflySun.com PSYCHOLOGY NEWS SEC, along with other government agencies, taps fireflySun.com in a sweeping investigation of fraud by post-secondary institutions. See "Who's Reading This Site" for details. News page reaches million hit milestone. 83% of U.S. colleges and universities represented as sources. PSYCHOLOGY NEWS Welcome senior developmental lab students of Florida International University!PSYCHOLOGY NEWS American Psychological Association responds to career-related skepticism spurred by widespread dissemination of / high search ranking of Ehrenfels report. See Onion of Obstacles Awaits Psych MajorsPSYCHOLOGY NEWS Westhost briefs Wyatt Ehrenfels on efforts to hack into web site. To prepare for the worst, Ehrenfels coordinates with host on contigencies for backing up site and tracing the perpetrators PSYCHOLOGY CAREER NEWS Wyatt Ehrenfels accepts senior researcher position with federal government PSYCHOLOGY BOOK NEWS On heels of hour interview for HCTV, Wyatt Ehrenfels will address Georgetown and Chevy Chase branches of the D.C. Public Library. Click Breaking News item for details. Ehrenfels thanks George Mason University undergraduates for warm reception, stimulating conversation PSYCHOLOGY WEB NEWSE-Zine Entelechy Publishes Wyatt Ehrenfels essay PSYCHOLOGY UNIVERSITY NEWSEhrenfels thanks George Mason University undergraduates for warm reception, stimulating conversation during HCTV program promotionPSYCHOLOGY NEWSDream researcher Gail Bixner, management consulting maven R. Mallory Starr, and Political Science Professor John Freie join the alliancePSYCHOLOGY NEWS It's here! Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun is now available on PublisherDirect. Barnes & Noble sells out of both volumes, while Amazon replenishes supply. Ehrenfels currently working to boost supplies. For now, Ehrenfels recommends PublisherDirect.Student credits Ehrenfels's strategy for her admittance to graduate program.University of Rhode Island psychology professor instructs students to ignore message by Ehrenfels. See 'Student Defies Prof's Warning Not to Correspond with Ehrenfels'"You have to defeat me on both fronts" warns Ehrenfels, who unveiled two-pronged case against a "dually-disordered psychology"In plan to ensure anonymity, Ehrenfels throws "illusions into the zone." See 'On the Run.'Psychotherapist Scott Adams offers generally favorable take on the original "16-points" memo. New memo deployed depicting "Psychology Nation"Citing privacy issues, Ehrenfels password-protects usage directories after flurry of attempts to gain access. Usage directory contains visitor IP addresses.

David W. St. John of Elderberry Press (another publishing house) writes: My God, what a vivid imagination. This is the stuff of nightmare. Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun is truly a masterwork. It blows the lid off the hypocrisy and corruption...builds tension and character [in a way that] reminds me of Stephen King's It. It is precisely that sense of timing that marks a master...The climax of the novel (or in this case the eruption) had my blood pressure going through the roof...A book I will never forget. I won't ever trust a psychologist again.

A rare and in some places rather painfully (to those of us in the field) accurate narrative...A surprisingly high drama concerning not only the graduate school environment and its potential life and death impact on students, but also the integrity of psychology as a whole.

Connie Vaughn explains why she is not a psychologist; Alice Andrews assails the culture of disinterest in the human psyche

Wyatt Ehrenfels to Transfer Ownership

Social psychologist-turned-author Wyatt Ehrenfels resigns as chief operating officer of a blog he spent over 5 years filling with unconventional wisdom and insider information about Psychology. The move comes one week before Wyatt immerses himself in two new projects and endures a new chapter in a campaign to harass and slander fireflySun.com officers. Click here to read more about the decision to sell fireflySun.com and read a statement from the site's new owner Dr. S.J. Adams.

FULL STORY * STATE OF CAMPAIGN ADDRESS

• Vaughn: "Why I Am Not a Psychologist"
• Dr. Ted: "Why I Got Out of Counseling Psych"
• Adams: "My Take On the Memo"
• C. Todd: "Three Hurdles to Tenure"
• Milliken: "Counseling as Social Construction"
• Critical Mass: fireflySun A Screed Free Zone
• Jesness: The Science of Psychotherapy

MORE TOP STORIES

• Available! Epic|Exposé Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun

• Within Hours: Drs. Greenberg, Solomon Write Ehrenfels

• Entelechy: Urban E-Zine Publishes JWE Essay |

On Site

• Damage Control: Sources Credit JWE for New APA Journal

• Newsweek Report Surveys Dream Research Wasteland

• APPIC Match Service Helps Veterans Hospital Psychologists
....Discriminate against Applicants w/ Disabilities

• Mental Health Commission to Police Mental Hygiene

• Games without Frontiers: Is Psychology's Science "ADHD"?

• Doubling Down: Ehrenfels Gambles by Splitting Critique

• FoxWrites: Kindred Critic Launches Reform Site |

On Site

• Cancer's Clear Window into Dreaming-Waking Connection

Psychology Nation:
Overview of Critique

Atlas of Psychology Nation

ON THE RUN

Dubbed "The Shadow of Modern Psychology" and "The Immaculate Misfit," J. Wyatt Ehrenfels eludes detection to protect key allies. Full Story

• Hydra of Red Herrings: Answering the Critics

The American Book Publishing Group courted the author with this assessment of his work: Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun is both a hard-hitting exposé of the discipline of psychology and a riveting drama. The author writes with the soul of a poet, the logic of a mathematician, and the passion of a crusader. This fascinating book is a must-read for every student and practitioner of psychology.

EHRENFELS QUICK HITS: DREAMING

THE DREAM FAQ

COVERT OPS & INFLUENCE

BOOK TALK

Breaking Rank: Student Defies Prof's Warning Not to Correspond with Ehrenfels
FAQ Special Report: Who's Reading This Site?

Washington National Cathedral
Site of Synchronicity Featured in Novel
• Plot Summary: Odyssey & Exposé

STUDENT AWARENESS

MEDIA

• Shhhhhhhhhhhh! Hidden Odds &
Obstacles to Graduate Admission
• Psychology a 'Bloated Minor'
• Ehrenfels: "Reform Efforts Not Meant to Offend Majors"
• Message to High School Seniors
• Iconoclast Counsels Students on True Callings

• Rappoport: Can Psychology Tolerate Critique?
• On Site: Ehrenfels Interviews for Cable Access Television Programs
• St. John: 'Fireflies' a "Masterwork"
• NEWTHERAPIST.com: Ehrenfels Sells Psychology Growth-Oriented Pain

Wyatt Ehrenfels Featured in Special Revolution Issue (22)

EXTREME PREJUDICE

COSMETIC SCIENCE

• Adverse Impact: Is Psychology Prejudiced against the Psyche?
• Professional Development at Odds with Adult Maturation
• Diversity 'Skin Deep' at U. of Michigan
• Counterfeit Freedom
• Indecent Exposure
• Song of Solomon: Ψ, Terror, & FBI

Greenberg, Solomon Respond

Cover to Chapter 1 titled Benign Atrocities

• Psychologists Party to Dishonest Hiring Practices at Gallup
• Junk Science: So you Say Opposites Don't Attract
• Cognitive Psychologist Chided for Evangelical Atheism
• Psych Ass'n Click Away from Capitol Hill
• Ritual Science: Psychological Research as Premature Ejaculation

Cogito Ergo Dumb: I Do Not Think, Therefore I Am A Psychology Professor

CENTRAL TENDENCIES

STUDENTS AT RISK

• Unnatural Selection: Psychology's Darwinian D-Volution
• Psy Profs Play Games with Rules
• In Drugged State: N. Mexico Gives Ψists Right to Prescribe
• Conservative-Bashing by Berkeley psy'gists "hypocritical", "unseemly"
• Teaching Psychology

A Celebration of Mediocrity: Click Here for text of Ehrenfels's 2001 Interview on Careerism

• Students Beware: Onion of Obstacles Awaits Psych Majors
• Grad Students Reach Out to JWE
• Weeding the Grad School Garden
• Good Advice: Prof Leads Student to Ehrenfels
• On the Record: Doctoral Student Fights Dismissal
• Doctoral Student Fights Probation

THERAPY CORNER

THE FRONT LINES

• The Shadow DSM: Diagnosing the Diagnosticians
• EPPP Study Materials Reflect Field's Biases, Weaknesses
• Profs Suffer Analogue of DSM Disorder
• Requiem for Psycho'cal Thought
• Psychologists Behaving Badly
• APA Denies Student Members Access to OKTV Press Report

• Ehrenfels: "You Have to Defeat Me on Both Fronts"
• Rout West: Ehrenfels Overpowers UCLA Psych Prof
• Axis of Evil: Google's Defamation Superhighway ... Amazon Targeted
• Psych Central?: Censorship on Online Psych Forums

Where the Imagination of the common novel ends, Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun begins. "Join me as I journey to a place where Imagination is anything but idle fiction," lures author Wyatt Ehrenfels, whose academic odyssey revisits the dreams he experienced during his struggle as a doctoral candidate to pursue the truth about ... dreaming. Doubling as critical ethnography and epic thriller, Fireflies shows us what it means for evangelically skeptical professors to hijack science for purposes other than the pursuit of truth. Science as career-enhancing steroid. Science as liturgy in a religion known as Skepticism. Science as self-medication and personal therapy. What does it feel like, being subject to the whims ... and rules ... of professors who never matured enough as persons to separate from the community that gave them their identity and place in a professional world?

As an experiment in literature, Fireflies blends fact, drama, theory, and symbol to teach us how dream experiences shape our mental sense organ in ways which offers us an obscure glimpse of our future states of consciousness. "Our dream experiences possess a capacity to teach and transform with a potency that surpasses that of our day time events. This book shows dreaming deepening our understanding of reality, but also shows dreams shaping that reality by altering the dreamer and his sources of consciousness. And beyond that, the book shows dreams, with a touch of self-consciousness, scattering throughout the waking world the seeds of insights into dreaming itself." Whether vacationing or vocationing, Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun is a stimulating companion, transcending the limits of Imagination and offering obscure glimpses of truths with a capital "T." Book draws from real dreams, real dream research, and real political drama. Click here for Plot Summary.

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