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Desire For a Replacement Child After Abortion and Possible Aftereffects
Number of women after having terminated pregnancy through abortion may become overwhelmed with guilt and may become pregnant again desiring to replace the child lost. While some of the women carry the second baby to terms, studies have shown that most of the second abortions take place within a year of the first one. If the pregnancy does take place as a result of desire to replace a child it definitely should be treated as a "crisis" pregnancy, with much needed support and tender loving care, otherwise repeated abortion may take place.Read more…Understanding Couples Therapy
Marriage counseling, sometimes called couples therapy, is a form of therapy to help couples identify the source of stress in their relationship and to develop a workable solution to deal with that stress. Its purpose is to resolve conflicts and to strengthen relationships. Couples therapy isn’t just for married couples, but for any couples who are experiencing difficulties or want to strengthen their relationship.Read more…Mistakes
The most difficult problems in criminal theory are generated by dissonance between reality and belief, between the objective facts and the actor's subjective impression of the facts. We explored the implications of the facts being innocent, but the actor's beliefs being criminal. Now we turn to the vast set of problems connected with the facts being incriminating, but the actor's beliefs, innocent.Read more…The Human Mind
The human mind is the most incredible computer it would be possible to imagine. Yet no one knows where it is! Scientists have made detailed studies of the brain, but have been unable to locate where the mind is.Read more…Memory and Imagination
There is one important difference between memory, in the more precise meaning of the word, and mere imagination, which makes it desirable to devote a separate chapter to its study. We might go on indefinitely having similar, or even identical, images pass through our minds, and, if we did not recognise them as having been previously portions of our experience, we should never in any strict sense be able to speak of our having a memory process. In memory, our consciousness not only re-presents old experiences to us, but we are aware of the ideas thus brought to us as actually standing for items of our previous states of consciousness.Read more…What Is Good Mental Health
Defining mental health or wellness is fraught with difficulty and subjectivity. Throughout history mental health has been socially, politically, legally and culturally defined. It can be argued that the manifestation of mental illness is primarily culturally determined.Read more…Pavlov vs. Freud
Ivan Pavlov and Sigmund Freud had made a valuable contribution to the development of modern psychological and medical thought, as they had outlined new directions in psychiatry and physiology. Their works and their ideas are considered to be actual nowadays and form the fundamentals of teaching about psychics, mental activity and nervous system functioning. Even though their research refers to different fields of this area of medicine, still their ideas correlate in systematization of knowledge about psychiatrics and neuropathology.Read more…Personality & Emotional Development
The question of personality is one of the central notions in the psychological science but it also deals with a lot of other sciences. The study of personality is interesting not only to scholars and scientists but to all of us as it’s a thing each of us possesses and can’t ignore. The personality is defined as perceiving and thinking about yourself, others and surrounding environments which is usually shown in social and personal contexts.Read more…Wish You Could Remember Your Dreams - 13 Hints for Dream Recall
Dreams are a royal road to our interior, well worth befriending. Many dreamers find profound direction in their lives, discover new parts of themselves, and live more fully from exploring their dreams. But, before you can work with your dreams, you must remember them.Read more…Prophetic Dream Guidance: A "Magical" Case Study
I, who was trained as a scientist, would like to tell you a true story about "dream magic." Some prophetic dreams anticipate precise details of our future and are not probability predictions, as you will see.In the 1980's, I was training Hollis, a talented intern, to interpret dreams, when we explored this dream which foretold her future in a way my scientific training declared impossible:"I am driving along in my car through ever-deeper mud.Read more…The Truth About Suicides
The sophisticated, modern world shuns at the idea of talking about suicide. However, man’s aversion to the idea of suicide does not diminish the fact that more and more people are contemplating about taking their lives everyday, every minute, every second. Some people with suicidal tendencies strike when their loved ones least expect it.Read more…Critical Issues in Forensic Psychology: False Confessions
The topic of false confessions is another very important issue within a legal context where psychological knowledge and expertise can be brought be bear. Psychological vulnerabilities and interrogative circumstances are two of the key areas that have been examined by psychologists in relation to false confessions.The reason that the study of false confessions is such an important topic within forensic psychology is that research into the reliability of testimony and suggestibility is as old as the discipline itself.Read more…Dream Shows Deceased Mother Still Attached to Her Daughter
Intensive dream work, which reveals the interior workings of the psyche, is guaranteed to change your view of reality. One of the stranger cases I encountered in decades of professional work echoed a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer which told of the Yiddish concept of the dibbuk.One definition of a dibbuk is a soul who, at death, attaches to another person as a living host rather than leave this plane of existence.Read more…Success and Safety in Online Dating
With today’s world moving on the fast lane, people do not just have the time to meet people and engage in chitchats with potential partners. Instead of going to bars and other activity places where they can meet single people, most would rather curl up on their couch and just rest after a hard days’ work. This is especially true with professionals who are busy with their work or those who work all day and are just too tired to go out in the evenings.Read more…The Keys to Successful Dating for Men
The keys to successful dating for menDating is probably one of the most exciting yet daunting adventures any single individual might ever encounter. Traditional dating—meeting up, going out and eating out—with somebody you are interested with can be a challenge as well as a learning experience for everyone.More than the women, men feel more pressured when going out on a date because they are expected to do almost everything to make the date a success.Read more…Profiling Serial Killers: Limitations of The FBI Approach
The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law held its annual meeting in Chicago at the end of October 2006. One of the panel discussions during the meeting was entitled 'Serial Killers: From Cradle to Grave' which addressed the perceived limitations of FBI profiles. Among the issues raised were the following:The notorious BTK murderer Dennis Rader who remained at large for over 30 years did not fit into the FBI's profiling methodology in relation to crime scenes.Read more…Assessing Future Risk of Youth Violence
Determination of future risk of violence is an important forensic task. It can contribute to decisions about the appropriate level of care or structure. Research has demonstrated repeatedly that clinical judgment about the risk of future violence is little better than chance.Read more…Psychopathic Personality: The Absence of Conscience
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.Read more…Female Violence: Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick
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.Read more…Dream Telepathy: Some Dream Workers Make Late Night House Calls
"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.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.