How Habits are Formed by Our Mind

This article describes how our habits are formed in our brain through process of pattern recognition and association.

Crime Scene Investigation: Understanding The CSI Effect

If you are a fan of CSI, be it the Gil Grissom original or the various spin-off shows, it's probably better if you don't get called up for jury service as there is a very good chance that you have become a victim of the dreaded 'CSI effect.' This article addresses what the CSI effect is and its impact within the court room.

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.

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.

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.

Humans are Predictable

Many people say that humans are not predictable and I would tend to disagree with that statement. As a matter of fact I think human behavior is very predictable and I think that the people who say that humans are not predictable are caught in political correctness and refuse to look at stereotypes, patterns and the commonalities between humans and other animals in the animal kingdom.

Prophetic Dream of Actual Princess: Dreaming of Princess Diana

There are future references in every dream because dreams come from the eternal side of the psyche. Where dreams originate, unity and oneness supercede all distinctions between self and other, and what we perceive as the past, the present and the future co-exist in an eternal Now. We all visit and directly experience this reality that the mystics write about in every dream we have and we do so every night of our lives!

Cocktails, Neurons and Nanos: Super-Cognition?

An interesting paradox has been the axis of much attention in the fields of pharmacy, brain research and ethics in the last few years. The advent of new technologies, particularly in the field of brain research, has induced scientists to improve the treatment of several conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, sleep disorders and dementia. 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...

Autism - An Enigmatic Event Revisited: From the Refrigerator Mother to The Parent Trap

During the 1940s mothers of autistic children were labeled refrigerator mother. These mothers were often blamed for their children's anti-social behaviors, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation. As a result, many mothers of autistic children suffered from blame, guilt, and self-doubt from the 1940s throughout the 1970s, and to some extent, even today. This devastating disorder, best known as infantile autism, is inexplicably on the rise with no effective treatment in sight. The medical community today is just as much in the dark as they were in the 1940s. Many researchers are convinced that the environment in which we live plays a major role autism; the nation's fastest-growing developmental disorder. If this is so, than we must take into consideration the influence a chemically-driven world that we live in. Which, in turn, would dictate that the practice of both mothers and fathers be a part of any environmental study to determined the cause of autism. After all they share the same environment.

The United State of Confusion

We live in a world of confusion that has its origin in the state of confusion existing within the minds of the vast majority of human beings on Earth. This is an article in which a new science of psychological philosophy is explored.

The Emerging Science of Positive Psychology

Positive psychology emerged because of a growing need in society, which traditional psychology was not addressing, i.e. becoming excellent.

Going Beyond The Mo: Criminal Profiling, Jack The Ripper And Signature Behavior

The primary aim of criminal profiling is to reveal the behavioral make-up of an unknown offender. To understand how this can be achieved, this article draws upon Robert Keppel's analysis of the Jack the ripper murders in order to examine the concept of signature behavior and how this differs from the offender’s Modus Operandi.

Managing the World; Future of Corporations and One World Governments

Is the World Ready for a One World Government? How about a one-world franchise system? Well it makes a lot of sense to have everyone on the same page and it is indeed time to upgrade or redo the United Nations. We can see issues there too. Consider if you will the failures of the League of Nations and World War II. It is time now to overhaul and start a new.