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Depression and anxiety
Anxiety disorders affect approximately one in four people at some point in their lives is a state of uneasiness or apprehension that affects everyday life. Anxiety can be manifested in a person’s thoughts, behaviour and somatic manifestation. A preoccupation with unknown dangers or fear of (more...)
The self and Personality disorders
is the self construct the origin of depression and anxiety. The “Anatomy” of the Self Existential-Phenomenological Reflections on the self (more...)
Aggression
Aggression and psychology (more...)
Therapeutic Relationship
During the last two decades a substantial body of literature concluded that the therapeutic alliance makes important and consistent contributions to therapeutic outcomes (Horvath & Symonds, 1991). Empirical research on the therapeutic relationship in general and the therapeutic alliance has been gro (more...)
What is Psychology
Psychology as a science is very different from most of the other sciences since the results cannot always be proven to be correct or incorrect. Due to this, there are many theories that until this day have different views on the same matter but are both taken to be possible truths. The behaviour of (more...)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD is not ‘a hystorical condition originating in America’. There is a wealth of scientific knowledge that gives us some understanding of the causes of the symptoms of ADHD. The term Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder refers to a syndrome in which sufferers present with a characteristic set (more...)
Aggression
Aggression is “any form of behaviour that is intented to injure someone physically or psychologically” Berkowitz 1993). (more...)
Personality Types and Psychopathology
We will briefly look at what traits are, how these personality factors were determined, what the traits mean, what the Big Five predict about our behaviour, and how these factors might relate to motivation. (more...)
Cognitive-Behaviour therapy and its efficacy for young children
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is commonly used with adults and children alike (Beck 1995). The search for the appropriate matching of client and therapy variables is complicated by the range of cognitive and behaviour techniques that are combined in different variations and are collectively desc (more...)
Trait Emotional Intelligence and its relationship with gender, academic performance, personality.
This study investigates the role of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) characteristics, such as emotion-related behavioural dispositions and self-perceived abilities, among students in 13 vocational courses at a college in Cyprus. (more...)
The ‘Pornography’ of death
Death is an existential fact, and it is more than likely the model for all human feelings of abandonment and separation. It is then so difficult to understand why one should not feel anxious when confronted with departing the life he finds so rewarding and enriching. There is sometimes an element of (more...)
Living With Someone Else’s Depression
Depression and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (more...)
Sexuality And Mental Health
Sexuality and Mental Health (more...)
Panic Disorders
For anyone who has heard talk of panic attacks but never actually experienced one, it would be easy to imagine them to involve nothing more than a slight and momentary feeling of fearfulness. When a panic attack strikes, however, the experience is, quite frankly terrifying and can often make people (more...)
Relationship Counselling – The Myths
When couples and families begin to get into difficulties with their relationships, there can often be a huge amount of reluctance for them to seek help. Often though, their reasons for not doing so are based on myths. (more...)
Adolescent Binge Drinking
Adolescent Binge Drinking Parents throughout the ages have suffered numerous concerns about the behaviour of their adolescent sons and daughters. As the years go by, however, it seems that the causes for concern, not to mention the seriousness of the issues, just keep increasing. (more...)
Love and relationships
How much are our feelings influenced by biology and how much by social experience? How do romantic love, sexuality, and attachment relate to one another? Even as I write this article my mind reels of my own lost relationships of those early years and too-short relationships of my patients who often (more...)
A New Look at Love, Fear and Hope Through Positive Psychology
According to the book Positive Psychology, at its inception, the field of psychology concerned itself very much with humans’ needs for happiness, and looked for ways to help them find love, hope and freedom from debilitating fear and limitation. But then something happened. Leaders in Positive Psychology make the case that medicine “hijacked” psychology, with both good and ill effects. Since money was available to study pathology, psychologists went toward the exciting advances of medicine and its grant monies, and in the process took psychology in the direction of studying mental pathology as well. (more...)
Practicing Happiness Together: Positive Psychology Exercises for Couples Under Stress
As there is in psychology, there are any number of books and resources available for couples to help them determine what exactly isn’t working in their relationships. While this can be useful, and might even be critical, the new and burgeoning field of Positive Psychology might offer a different strategy. Positive Psychology as such is a relatively innovative field in which leading scholars in the field of psychology have taken it upon themselves to inventory happiness. That is, they’ve decided to give as much attention to what makes and keeps people happy and thriving as traditional psychology has given to what makes them miserable. (more...)
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