The word “psychopath,” typically brings to mind names like Ted Bundy and John Gacy. But these examples are extreme. Psychopathic traits are more common than you think. * What Is Psychopathy? * There is much misunderstanding surrounding the term “psychopathy.”…
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Criticism and judgment are everywhere in life. It’s at the workplace, at home, on the road when you’re drivingno matter where you go or what you do, someone will be judging. It is up to you to decide how to…
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E.S.P or Extrasensory Perception is defined as the “ability to perceive in the absence of ordinary sensory information” (Kassin, 2004, p. 123). It basically states that a person may have special powers like telling the future. Many psychologists believe such…
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Solitude is a place I go. It is the calming flow of a body of water, or the wind moving through the pine trees outside. It is a small cabin on a wooded mountainside, or a deserted beach with a…
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When decisions are made about the effect of a drug towards the human body, the research first is scrutinized by people, who have a ethical perspective on their religious beliefs, that the group holds as an authority in the decisions…
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Letting go of someone you adore is no picnic, however, it can be absolutely neccesary. The human heart and the human brain are complicated and intensely complex. For this reason and this reason alone, we all reach a cross roads…
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Two years ago, my husband and I attended a conference put on by the New Horizons Center for Autism and Asperger’s Studies to see Dr. Tony Attwood speak. Dr. Attwood is an Austrailian psychiatrist widely recognized as the foremost authority…
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Laziness is difficult to define because of its subjective quality. When my brother and I were growing up, my stepfather would always complain about our laziness and the fact that we never did anything. The problem with his reasoning, however,…
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Change is inevitable, and something that happens so often in life that it almost seems normal after awhile. We all go through periods of change in our lives, and some are expected, while others are not. Some change is good,…
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There have been many theories and hypotheses over the years concerning dream formation and what these colorful yet confusing mini-movies truly mean. While Freud deemed dreams the products of unconscious conflicts and the pleasure principle, modern psychotherapy has moved away…
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