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Save Our Children: When Is a Mother Dangerous to her Child or Others?
The Growing Problem of violent women:• Lisa Montgomery took the baby from the womb of another young mother in 2004.• Lashaun Harris killed her three children by tossing them into the bay on October 19, 2005.• Shannon Torrez, 36, cut a young mother’s throat and kidnapped her new born baby on September 15, 2006.Read more…Prophetic Dream of Actual Princess: Dreaming of Princess Diana
Sometimes a dream lands so hard it flattens you. I liked it better before, you moan… No one knows where dreams come from, but remember this: No one knows where we come from either! I believe the answer to both is the same: Whoever makes us also makes our dreams.Read more…Intelligence: What Is It?
Standardized meaning of intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. In defining intelligence, there has always been the question of whether intelligence is measured as a remarkable occurrence or if it has many variables that are combined. For example, is it how "smart" a person is?Read more…Synesthesia: The Crossing of the Senses
"We interpret one sense by another." William Hazlitt"Although medicine has known about synaesthesia for three centuries, it keeps forgetting that it knows. Richard Cytowic, in "Synaesthesia: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology a Review of Current Knowledge"Could you imagine going through life every day seeing sound, hearing colour, tasting shapes, hearing smells or tasting colours.Read more…Tips for Successful Conversations with Humans on Planet Earth
"Talk to Me, I’m Human!" Have you ever felt like telling (or worse—yelling!) this or a similar phrase to your boss, a coworker, or significant other with whom it seems impossible to have a conversation?Read more…Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Four
Stage Four: Learning and PerpetuatingDealing with human behaviour is never a static process. Learning from each experience is the secret to naturally widen one’s perspective towards the world, improve one’s ability to understand people and to effectively communicate with them. Therefore, learning also plays a big role in the process of developing a positive counsellor perspective.Read more…Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Three
Stage Three: Dealing with Challenging SituationsOne of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client’s needs and objectives should be considered and used to guide the counselling process. These needs vary for each individual according to factors such as personality, culture, gender and age.Read more…Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part One
Diverse values, specialist development, varied experiences, a unique mindset - mix it up and include a touch of interpretation and you have a human being with a social outlook. Leveraging differences between people is a daily necessity of living in societies, and leveraging our own perspective of the world – and others in it – is one of the utmost challenges in pursuing a healthy and balanced lifestyle.So how do we detach from our past experiences and values to see the world from a clearer perspective?Read more…Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Two
Stage Two: Becoming an Effective CounsellorAccording to Meier and Davis (1997, p.61) “in no other profession does the personality and behavior of the professional make such difference as it does in counseling. Beginning counselors need to work at increasing their self awareness as well as their knowledge of counseling procedures.Read more…Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem
From the very childhood most parents teach their children to be obedient and stress that obedience is a virtue, and disobedience is a flaw. That is the opinion accepted in the society. There exist a lot of religions that teach us to be obedient.Read more…Humans and their Inability to Cope
Many people get so stressed out that they cannot handle any sort of change in schedule and find themselves unable to cope with things. It is too bad that people get stressed over change and it is too bad so many humans have the inability to cope with things when they do change. As Einstein once said; Change Is the Only Constant.Read more…Humanistic Psychology Study
The main focus of Humanistic psychology study is based on conscious consciousness, morals and theoretical thinking. These include the spiritual experiences and the beliefs that people live by. Emerging in the 1950's and 1960's, humanism is about rewarding yourself, and places great importance on the individual and their own individuality.Read more…Heuristics and What are They
Heuristics and its nature, as well as the role that they play in the understanding and clarification of human behavior can not be ignored in the study of cognitive psychology. Heuristics, put in simple terms, can be recognized and defined as shortcuts employed by humans to draw up potential solutions to a task or problem at the beginning of the problem and are widely recognized as highly effective, remarkably good methods for making spontaneous and rapid decisions or judgments even under heavy time constraints. As for how they can be considered as either helpful or as a hindrance in the decision making process and in problem solving, there are obvious implications from the very nature of the concept of heuristics, such as the time saving and convenience of such shortcuts and the possible drawback of making rash decisions and eliminating potentially viable means to come to a solution because of a lack of information or inexperience in that area.Read more…President Abraham Lincoln's Prophetic Dream That Foretold His Own Death In The White House
Western culture has little understanding of the profound origin of dreams and the invaluable guidance they offer. As a result, few people benefit from the most direct source of growth and healing that nature provides. Popular opinions--and even many otherwise capable scientists--suggest that dreams are trivial side-effects of the sleeping mind with nothing whatsoever to convey.Read more…Exploratory Dreamwork: 16 Rules for Running A Jungian Dream Group
1. Everyone dreams, every night of their life. Whoever makes us, makes our dreams. They come from the factory; where we all return each night to be "re-tuned" to the vibrations of our essential self.Read more…Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) : Challenges Established Family Norms and Beliefs
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder of childhood. It is commonly estimates that from 3% to 6% of the child and adolescent population in the United States is diagnosed with ADHD. However, a recent report issued by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) suggest that ADHD may affect as many as 8% to 17% of America's youth.Read more…Exploring Fear: An Inevitable Emotion
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." (Bertrand Russell)Myrmecophobia, phalacrophobia, hobophobia, acrophobia, pentheraphobia, hypengyophobia, venustraphobia, ailurophobia, gamophobia, ophidiophobia, arachnophobia, hydrophobia, alektorophobia, philophobia, logophobia and testophobia*. Do you have these symptoms for any of these?Read more…The Whole is the Illusion
The whole is the sum of its parts. But the whole is the illusion as it can never be seen.A baseball team such as the New York Yankees is made up of players.Read more…The Scientific Credibility of Forensic Psychology
As a forensic discipline, forensic psychology can be located within the broader discourse of forensic science. However, compared to other forensic specialisms e.g.Read more…Crime Scene Investigation: Understanding The CSI Effect
Programs such as Forensic files, Law and Order, CSI, CSI Miami etc may be hugely popular and thoroughly entertaining but they have created what is know in academic and professional circles as the 'CSI effect'According to Max Houck, director of the Forensic Science Initiative, a program that develops research and professional training for forensic scientists, "The CSI effect is basically the perception of the near-infallibility of forensic science in response to the TV show,"The main distortion between fictional portrayals and the application of forensic science in the real world is 'time frame'. It can take several weeks, sometimes months to get results back from the lab, however, in the fictional world of forensic science and crime scene investigation, results invariabaly come back straight away.The CSI effect in actionIt would seem that the CSI effect is most visible in the court room, particularly among jurors.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Psychology category
- Getting the Most Out of Therapy: How to Collaborate With Your Therapist - By: Steven Frankel, M.D.
If you are in therapy, you and your therapist have already invested a significant amount of time and energy into your work, and you both have the same goal in mind: helping you achieve your own objectives for emotional growth and healing. If and when a difference of opinion over the treatment does occur, rather than walking away from your therapist, it is usually well worth the effort try to find a collaborative way to again go forward. - Colors in Dreams and Their Meaning - By: Daniel Zoleta
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, including Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by those with certain powers. In modern times, various schools of psychology have offered theories about the meaning of dreams. - Boost Your IQ: Techniques to Increase Your Intelligence Quotient Today - By: Evgheny Stivenson
It is possible to enhance your intelligence quotient in a matter of 10 minutes. Some techniques to do so are discussed below. Don't you want to enhance your IQ? Of course, you can use the brain power exercises and techniques. But these are long term and you would need to regularly practice them. What if you want to boost your IQ now, when you don't have more than 10 minutes. - Online Psychology Programs - By: Mary Jackson
Students pursuing psychology online degrees learn about the human mind and behavior and its biological, social and cognitive bases, as well how to apply this knowledge to practical problems. Student enrolled in online psychology programs can choose to specialize in areas of psychology such as educational, child, clinical, sport, forensic, industrial, organizational, social and marriage and family therapy. - Toronto Psychologist and Psychoanalyst - By: Sandra Palef
If you want to get an idea of what psychotherapy is all about, watch an episode of the television series The Sopranos. Tony Soprano is a mafia don in New Jersey who is in talk therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi. He has panic attacks, loses consciousness, and has slipped into a depression. All of this seems irrational to him, but he can’t help it. He has some hidden agenda lying just outside his awareness that is controlling his feelings and behavior. He doesn’t believe in therapy at the start, convinced he cannot talk about himself and that it won’t help anyway. He resists, evading Dr. Melfi’s questions, withdrawing, and even walking out. But eventually he is intrigued. - Magic Happens When Eternity Meets Linear Time in Dream Work - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
Even if you're speeding around town, frantically running late, your dog in the back seat is perfectly on time; centered in the Now.I once thought "eternity" meant: Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. forever. - One Dream Interprets Another to Predict the U.S. Mid-Term Election Results - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
Dreams come from wherever we do. They regularly predict the future and they link people together in the world of dreams. In the following case one dream even arrived to interpret another dream! - Dream Telepathy: Some Dream Workers Make Late Night House Calls - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
"Not until a person dissolves, can he or she know what union is." -RumiNothing seems more obvious than that every human being is a distinct and separate entity. America champions the rights of the individual and self-determination. - Female Violence: Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick - By: Kathryn Seifert
The future well-being of a society is directly linked to its ability to care for and educate its young. Families that cannot successfully care for their young, nurture the seeds of future violence and criminality. Until we learn this, we will continue to build more prisons at a much higher cost than treatment or prevention. - Psychopathic Personality: The Absence of Conscience - By: William L. Smith Ph. D.
Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Nazi hunter, said "to defeat them, first we must understand them." For most of us the idea of a psychopath conjures up images from movies like "Silence of The Lambs" and characters with names like "Hannibal Lector." However, characters such as Hannibal is a fantasy, he is the creation of the author.