Tips for Successful Conversations with Humans on Planet Earth

This article provides concise points for people looking to improve their communication skills during their conversations. It gives an overview of basic behavioral concepts and gives practical tips to produce amazing results.

Abuse Victims Widely Misdiagnosed

Victims of rape and child sexual abuse are often given a wrong diagnosis. Most suffer posttraumatic stress disorder, but they may be labelled the insulting diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

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.

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.

Female Violence: Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick

Is female violence is on the rise or are we just more ready to admit that it exists? The answer is yes to both. Female violence is on the rise and we are more willing to face it.

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.

Psychology

Special psychological importance attaches to those patterns of observed quality that are referred to the organism of the reporter.

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.

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. Personality depends on what people believe and how they perceive the world and a major factor in this learning theory is that people are seen as freely exercising choice over how to behave. They are the architects of their own lives and 'personal agents' in their own psychological growth.

Viktor Frankl: Existentialist and the Father of Logotherapy

Viktor E. Frankl born 1905, educated in Venna, and from 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau, the Nazi two most infamous concentration camps. Dr. Frankl the father of Logotherapy, a well-known author and many of his work has been translated from German into Polish, Japanese, and several other languages including English. Logotherapy is often called the third branch of Venna school of psychotherapy following Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology.

Automatic Activation

The authors conducted the experiment in which one group of women was exposed to rape-related words and the other group was exposed to neutral words. Then the participants had to read the scenario about rape. The ambiguous scenario described the aggressiveness of man and the behaviour of woman who could possibly provoke the aggressive actions of man.

Groups and Group Counselling

Group counselling is a challenging and dynamic form of counselling that requires all-round professional skills from counsellors. It implies that any challenges a counsellor may find in helping an individual can potentially duplicate, triplicate, or vastly multiply - however...

Effective Counselling and the Objectivity Challenge

Most people tend to be compassionate. Perhaps it is a human evolutionary trait, or simply the manner in which we have been trained to understand and act upon our emotions. Or it could stem from the need to help others in order to achieve a sense of belonging. In modern society...

My Extraordinary Memory Skills

How an ordinary boy and man developed a phenomenal memory. He memorized hundreds of years of the day of the week each date occurred or will occur on. He then memorized a plethora of other information by linking them to the dates.