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What Causes Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
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The most recent models that attempt to describe what is happening in the brains of people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder suggest that several areas of the brain may be affected by the disorder. They include the frontal lobes, the in ...
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By Douglas Cowan, Psy.D. Hits: 11122
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is Not Related to I.Q.
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It's important to know that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Intelligence, as measured by I.Q., are two different things. \r Some parents are convinced that if their child has ADD it means that they are retarded. On the other h ...
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By Douglas Cowan, Psy.D. Hits: 1134
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It's Never Too Late
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First of all, a bit of background: A high school dropout,
stay-at-home mom until the age of 40, I wasnĄ¯t too
motivated to learn. Then I read the following quote:
"Old Bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not y ...
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By Carol Bremner Hits: 868
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Secret Information
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Secret information? Okay, probably not much remains truly hidden or forbidden anymore, but there are little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. "Lucky people" use little-k ...
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By Steve Gillman Hits: 15333
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Is Psychology a Science?
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All theories - scientific or not - start with a problem. They aim to solve it by proving that what appears to be "problematic" is not. They re-state the conundrum, or introduce new data, new variables, a new classification, or new organizing principl ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 5264
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The Pathology of Love
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Recent studies buttress the unpalatable truth that falling in love is, in some ways, indistinguishable from a severe pathology. Behavior changes are reminiscent of psychosis and, biochemically speaking, passionate love closely imitates substance abus ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 23984
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The Habit of Identity
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In a famous experiment, students were asked to take a lemon home and to get used to it. Three days later, they were able to single out "their" lemon from a pile of rather similar ones. They seemed to have bonded. Is this the true meaning of love, bon ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 18477
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What Is Hypno-psychotherapy?
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Psychotherapy
Psychology is the study of human behaviour. It seeks to look at the motivational drives within an individual and offer an explanation to the behaviour that is demonstrated.
Psychotherapy is the use and application ...
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By Ian Wharmby Hits: 26834
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The Four Elements
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Empedocles, a Greek philosopher,scientist and healer who lived in Sicily in the fifth century B.C.,believed that all matter is comprised of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Fire and air are outwardly reaching elements, reaching up and ...
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By BonnieM Hits: 6513
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How Hypnosis Can Help You
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Hypnosis has long been recognised as an effective means of treatment for a number of psychological conditions. Hypnotherapy can help you to create more confidence for yourself and improve feelings of self worth. You can also learn to overcome problem ...
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By William Lee Hits: 22926
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Serial Killers
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Countess Erszebet Bathory was a breathtakingly beautiful, unusually well-educated woman, married to a descendant of Vlad Dracula of Bram Stoker fame. In 1611, she was tried - though, being a noblewoman, not convicted - in Hungary for slaughtering 612 ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 3174
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The Narcissist's Confabulated Life
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Confabulations are an important part of life. They serve to heal emotional wounds or to prevent ones from being inflicted in the first place. They prop-up the confabulator's self-esteem, regulate his (or her) sense of self-worth, and buttress his (or ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 9684
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Pathological Narcissism, Psychosis, and Delusions
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One of the most important symptoms of pathological narcissism (the Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is grandiosity. Grandiose fantasies (megalomaniac delusions of grandeur) permeate every aspect of the narcissist's personality. They are the reason ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 12513
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In Defense of Psychoanalysis
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No social theory has been more influential and, later, more reviled than psychoanalysis. It burst upon the scene of modern thought, a fresh breath of revolutionary and daring imagination, a Herculean feat of model-construction, and a challenge to est ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 20768
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The Revolution of Psychoanalysis
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"The more I became interested in psychoanalysis, the more I saw it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess."
Anna Freud
Towards the end of the 19th century, the n ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 24451
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