Is there some weird belief out there that psychology majors and psychology professionals know “tricks” that others don’t? If so, it’s a myth-like one of those urban legends that a lot of people tell as fact-but aren’t factual. I won’t…
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Mood disorders are said to affect about 20 percent of the population at one time or another in a month. About 12 percent report a form of major depressive mood disorder in a year and 17 percent in a lifetime….
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Verbal abuse, over the years, can lead to mental abuse. In fact they are connected. To physically hit a person is one thing, but mental abuse – by use of verbal assaults – is another thing entirely. In this day and age especially,…
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I work with Goddesses as a way to represent archetypes. This is called Archetypal Psychology and the developer of it is James Hillman. After his books others came. Archetypes are susceptible to be worked in many ways. As their symbolic…
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The Psychology of Religion The fundamental problem for psychologists and other science-minded empiricists is that religious experiences are not susceptible to objective testing-and are thus, dismissible. Even so, they recognize that such experiences have a powerful impact not only on…
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Charles Manson, the mass murderer who became an overnight news story in the 70’s, was a cult leader with a charming personality, who in his delusions convinced others to carry out murders for him. Though never directly tied to the…
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For a long time, a simple view was taken of physical ailments. For instance, diabetes resulted from a pancreas that could not keep up with insulin production. AIDS was caused by reckless sexual behaviour. The idea was to identify exactly…
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When we speak of someone having a big ego we usually mean they have a grandiose sense of self importance. There are several factors relevant in making them so conceited, which relate mainly to their true level of self confidence. While it…
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Mental disorders and violence are connected, but not in the way most people think. It is now outdated to regard “crazies,” “sickos” and “weirdos” as being automatically dangerous or threatening. With our improved understanding of mental illness and associated disorders,…
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What is it about death that makes us fear it so? How it will happen, the pain we may endure prior to death? The uncertainty of what becomes of us after death? The possibility that are soul may be bound…
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