The Mind Of The Emotional Blamer

How many times have you been in a situation where you knew you were absolutely in the right? And despite even having solid proof to support your position, the emotional blamer refused to accept any responsibility for their role?

Dream Groups by Telephone May Be Better Than Meeting In Person

We human beings are visually dominant creatures. We draw many conclusions based on visual cues alone. Our eyes tell a very different story about the world around us than the story that is told by our ears. A telephone group tends to be more focused on the specific content of the dreams and on the emotional tone of the members, and seems to be less biased and more growth-focused than when people are in the same room.

Why Does Cognitive Therapy Work?

Cognitive therapy is the treatment of choice for people who have disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive behavior. This article explores why it works so effectively to resolve problems.

Psychology And Its Techniques

Psychology is one of the most ancient sciences which studies numerous aspects of human nature. However it still has open questions and a space for new learning.

Mind Control Tricks

There are many forms of mind control tricks. They can range from the tricks a magician uses to make us believe that the lady really was sawn in half, through to sophisticated tricks that play on our subconscious mind and lead us to a conclusion that the person performing the mind control tricks wants us to reach.

Depression, Holiday Blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Other Side of Merry Christmas

Are you a victim of the holiday blues? The glare and dazzle of Christmas lights and the rush of activity between Thanksgiving and New Year can mask the other side of the holiday - depression and loneliness. While depression is a common illnesses for many adults, Christmas blues can be experienced by many who have heightened and unrealistic expectations about holiday events.

2007 Common Sense Psychology Thoughts

It is truly amazing the abundance of psychological profiling going on in America and academia. Even more amazing is the psychologists who tell us how to profile personalities and how to raise our children and explain to us how to love, conduct our relationships and raise our kids tend to have the most problematic children, druggie teens and dysfunctional families. So, who can you believe when it comes to psychology?

Why Diet Companies Will Go Out of Business - And Why They Should

Very few people realize that nearly 100% of people who lose weight through a diet program put that weight back on even more quickly than before. Read on to discover why our health departments are now saying that even healthy diets should be avoided.

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.

Psychopathic Personality: The Absence of Conscience

We are all familiar with the likes of, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Gilmore, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy; to name a few. These individuals are deadly social preditors better known as psychopaths whose glaring lack of conscience is made abundantly clear in popular books and movies. These psychopaths are the ghost of our daily lives at the office, at home, and in our relationships. Psychopaths have been around for a very long time and can be found in every race, culture, society, and every walk of life. At one time or another everyone has met these social predator, many of us been deceived and manipulated by them, and compelled share our lives with or repair the damage they left behind. Psychopaths are often charming, but always deadly; their goal is self-gratification at the other person's expense. Many psychopaths are criminals, but many others manage to remain out of prison. Like the social predators they are; psychopaths use their charm and chameleon-like coloration to charm they way through society, leaving many ruined lives behind.

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.

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.

Save Our Children: When Is a Mother Dangerous to her Child or Others?

What could make a woman so desperate that she would kill her friend, her children, or another woman. We do not want to think of our mothers, sisters and daughters in this way. Prevention programs are available and need to be used.