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- # Psychics – our link to another dimension. By : Ken Wilson
We have always wondered if there really are people in this world capable of predicting the unpredictable. The good news is that there are and that they are able to do this by using their extra-sensory perceptions including clairvoyance and precognition, to reveal certain sides of the human nature and personal life. - A Good Child Psychologist Should Have A Personality That Says "trust Me" By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
Children are one of the most fragile beings that we can encounter. There are many children who live happy carefree childhoods. Likewise there are many others who have become emotionally stressed or behaviorally changed. To help these children cope with the various problems that could be hurting them a child psychologist may be of help. - A New Overall Look At Diverse Depression Treatment Routines And Applications By : Joe Clark
One of your most prevalent wellbeing issue in numerous countries across the world is depressive disorders. - Addiction And Personality By : Sam Vaknin
A voluminous literature notwithstanding, there is little convincing empirical research about the correlation between personality traits and addictive behaviors. Substance abuse and dependence (alcoholism, drug addiction) is only one form of recurrent and self-defeating pattern of misconduct. People are addicted to all kinds of things: gambling, shopping, the Internet, reckless and life-endangering pursuits. Adrenaline junkies abound.
The connection between chronic anxiety, pathological narcissism, depression, obsessive-compulsive traits and alcoholism and drug abuse is well established and common in clinical practice. But not all narcissists, compulsives, depressives, and anxious people turn to the bottle or the needle. Frequent claims of finding a gene complex responsible for alcoholism have been consistently cast in doubt. - Advice for Using NLP to Make Beneficial Changes By : James Risce
Neuro linguistic programming, or NLP, can be applied to a variety of issues and problems. While you can spend years learning about this technique, you can reap a lot of rewards from it by learning some easy movements. NLP works by making alterations in the way you speak to yourself or others, and how you see events and memories in your mind's eye. - An Overview Of Hypnosis By : Dave Carter
Hypnosis is state of mind where an individual is subjected to controlled thoughts and behavior. Hypnosis involves two persons - the persons being treated to experiment is called subject while the one conducting the experiment is called hypnotist. Hypnotist takes the subject into the mental state, often termed hypnotized, and tries to get response from her. Hypnosis is possibly one of the most debated disciplines in the world. There are so many theories associated with this stream of studies. The basic debate hovers around the state aspect - one school of thoughts suggests that hypnosis is a state of mind while the other school asserts it to be a non-state. - Antihypertension Drugs for Emergency Hypertension By : Robert Baird
Understanding cerebral autoregulation provides a basis for treating a patient with emergency hypertension. Normally, cerebral autoregulation maintains a consistent blood flow to the brain and keeps cerebral perfusion pressure within normal limits despite variations in systemic arterial pressure. - Appreciate How We, As People Interact By Reading Psychology Articles By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
I am sure that you have read many journals or even magazines that have featured some psychology articles. These articles will cover some new treatment or method that has the field of psychology in an uproar. As you read the psychology articles you should keep in mind that they are the ideas and theories of one or a few people. For this reason you should keep an open mind regarding these psychology articles. - Are You Likely to Be Hit by Panic Disorder? By : Robert D. Thomson
Panic Disorder is a type of anxiety disorders that is affecting a large part of the population. The symptoms of this condition could be extremely unpleasant and they can, literary overnight, turn the lives of ordinary people into a living nightmare. There are some individuals that are in higher risk group than the rest of the population to be affected by panic disorder but everybody may became a victim regardless of their sex, age or the social background. - Are You Under Mind Control? Why Not? By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
How do you determine if you're under mind control?
It's an interesting question that you can pass around at a party or among friends. - At risk youth programs- Is your child in danger? By : Robert D. Thomson
The youth of today face innumerable challenges from their surroundings in many different manifestations. These challenges can have a misleading effect on some of the more vulnerable youngsters who tend to get sidelined because of their interaction with the world and the internal changes that they are going through during their tender teenage years. - Avoidant Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
People suffering from the Avoidant Personality Disorder feel inadequate, unworthy, inferior, and lacking in self-confidence. As a result, they are shy and socially inhibited. Aware of their real (and, often, imagined) shortcomings, they are constantly on the lookout, are hypervigilant and hypersensitive. Even the slightest, most constructive and well-meant or helpful criticism and disagreement are perceived as complete rejection, ridicule, and shaming. Consequently, they go to great lengths to avoid situations that require interpersonal contact - such as attending school, making new friends, accepting a promotion, or teamwork activities. Hence the Avoidant Personality Disorder.
Inevitably, Avoidants find it difficult to establish intimate relationships. They "test' the potential friend, mate, or spouse to see whether they accept them uncritically and unconditionally. They demand continue verbal reassurances that they really wanted, desired, loved, or cared about. - Axes Of Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Personality disorders are like tips of icebergs. They rest on a foundation of causes and effects, interactions and events, emotions and cognitions, functions and dysfunctions that together form the patient and make him or her what s/he is.
The DSM uses five axes to analyze, classify, and describe these data. The patient (or subject) presents himself to a mental health diagnostician, is evaluated, tests are administered, questionnaires fulfilled, and a diagnosis rendered. The diagnostician uses the DSM's five axes to "make sense" and meaningfully organize of the information he had gathered in this process.
Axis I demands that he specify all the patient's clinical mental health problems that are not personality disorders or mental retardation. Thus, Axis I includes issues first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence; cognitive problems (e.g., delirium, dementia, amnesia); mental disorders due to a medical condition (for instance, dysfunctions caused by brain injury or metabolic diseases); substance-related disorders; schizophrenia and psychosis; mood disorders; anxiety and panic; somatoform disorders; factitious disorders; dissociative disorders; sexual paraphilias; eating disorders; impulse control problems and adjustment issues. - Besting Bullying By : Adam Johnes
As youngsters we all remember name-calling and teasing. The most common triggers for such abuse remain physical traits-hair, height, weight and teeth.
However, the National Association of School Psychologists estimates 160,000 children stay home from school daily because they fear harassment. - Borderline Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
The fact that the Borderline personality disorder is often found among women makes it a controversial mental health diagnosis. Some scholars say that it is a culture-bound pseudo-syndrome invented by men to serve a patriarchal and misogynistic society. Others point to the fact the lives of patients diagnosed with the disorder are chaotic and that the relationships they form are stormy, short-lived, and unstable. Moreover, not unlike compensatory narcissists, people with the Borderline Personality Disorder often display labile (wildly fluctuating) sense of self-worth, self-image and affect (expressed emotions).
Like both narcissists and psychopaths, borderlines are impulsive and reckless. Like histrionics, their sexual conduct is promiscuous, driven, and unsafe. Many borderlines binge eat, gamble, drive, and shop carelessly, and are substance abusers. Lack of impulse control is joined with self-destructive and self-defeating behaviors, such as suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, gestures, or threats, and self-mutilation or self-injury. - Can't Quit Gambling? Don't Bet On It By : Wade Gibson
A preoccupation with gambling may cause some people to risk more than money. They may be gambling their health, happiness and their family's welfare. - Changes In The Diagnostic And Statistical Manual (dsm) Iv By : Sam Vaknin
The DSM-IV dropped two diagnoses that made an appearance in the DSM-III: the masochistic and the sadistic personality disorders. But these are not the only differences between the two editions as far as Axis II (personality disorders) goes.
The DSM-IV considerably expanded and updated the introductory text while emphasizing dimensional models of personality and listing for the first time some of the dimensions espoused by the more important models. - Child Learning Theory Of Mentalism By : Gabriel
This theory is that language develops of its own accord and is in no way affected by external frequencies. Factors that back this theory up are the babbling noises children make from about the age of 6 months old, when the noises and sounds produced have little or no resemblance to any language but the child has started to develop strong enough vocal cords to vocalise certain things. Children’s language develops in a regular sequence of milestones known as First stage, Second stage, Third stage and so on. - Child Psychology Articles Should Provide Us With The Solutions As Well By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
We know that psychology is the study of human behavior and emotional responses. As these responses can vary from person to person and age to age, the field of psychology is quite broad. In this field you will be able to find various psychologists studying the emotions and behavior of children. This means that you will be able to find child psychology articles that have been directed towards how the children of today live and behave. - Cluster B Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
The DSM-IV-TR (2000) defines a personality disorder as:
"An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations the individuals culture (and is manifested in two or more of his or her areas of mental life:) cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control."
Such a pattern is rigid, long-term (stable), and recurrent. It manifests itself in all areas of life (it is pervasive). It is not owing to substance-abuse or a medical condition (such as head trauma). It renders the subject dysfunctional "in social , occupational, or other important areas" and this impairment causes distress. - Codependence And The Dependent Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
There is great confusion regarding the terms co-dependent, counter-dependent, and dependent. Before we proceed to study the Dependent Personality Disorder in our next article, we would do well to clarify these terms.
Codependents - Common Features Of Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Psychology is more an art form than a science. There is no "Theory of Everything" from which one can derive all mental health phenomena and make falsifiable predictions. Still, as far as personality disorders are concerned, it is easy to discern common features. Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by the mental health practitioner).
Patients suffering from personality disorders have these things in common:
They are persistent, relentless, stubborn, and insistent (except those suffering from the Schizoid or the Avoidant Personality Disorders). - Conduct Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
Children and adolescents with conduct disorder are budding psychopaths. They repeatedly and deliberately (and joyfully) violate the rights of others and breach age-appropriate social norms and rules. Some of them gleefully hurt and torture people or, more frequently, animals. Others damage property. Yet others habitually deceive, lie, and steal. These behaviors inevitably render them socially, occupationally, and academically dysfunctional. They are poor performers at home, in school, and in the community. As such adolescents grow up, and beyond the age of 18, the diagnosis automatically changes from Conduct Disorder to the Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Children with Conduct Disorder are in denial. They tend to minimize their problems and blame others for their misbehavior and failures. This shifting of guilt justifies, as far as they are concerned, their invariably and pervasively aggressive, bullying, intimidating, and menacing gestures and tantrums. Adolescents with Conduct Disorder are often embroiled in fights, both verbal and physical. They frequently use weapons, purchased or improvised (e.g., broken glass) and they are cruel. Many underage muggers, extortionists, purse-snatchers, rapists, robbers, shoplifters, burglars, arsonists, vandals, and animal torturers are diagnosed with Conduct Disorder.
Conduct Disorder comes in many shapes and forms. Some adolescents are "cerebral" rather than physical. These are likely to act as con-artists, lie their way out of awkward situations, swindle everyone, their parents and teachers included, and forge documents to erase debts or obtain material benefits. - Confessions of a Mind Control Victim By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
This man was hypnotized into giving up all his money... Or was he? - Counselling Psychology: Let Your Guiding Light Shine By : David Alexander
Counselling psychologists do a great service to society by helping people in need of guidance. They are directly responsible for fostering good mental health and preventing mental, physical, and social disorders. - Critique And Defense Of Psychoanalysis By : Sam Vaknin
“I am actually not a man of science at all. . . . I am nothing but a conquistador by temperament, an adventurer.”
(Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900) - Dark Hypnosis man busted & sent to jail By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
How a man used hypnosis to get free meals! Unbelievable!! - Defense Mechanisms By : Sam Vaknin
According to Freud and his followers, our psyche is a battlefield between instinctual urges and drives (the id), the constraints imposed by reality on the gratification of these impulses (the ego), and the norms of society (the superego). This constant infighting generates what Freud called "neurotic anxiety" (fear of losing control) and "moral anxiety" (guilt and shame).
But these are not the only types of anxiety. "Reality anxiety" is the fear of genuine threats and it combines with the other two to yield a morbid and surrealistic inner landscape.
These multiple, recurrent, "mini-panics" are potentially intolerable, overwhelming, and destructive. Hence the need to defend against them. There are dozens of defense mechanisms. - Depression Versus Normal Sadness? -Do You Know The Difference? By : Betty Ann Robbinoli
Feelings of sadness are normal. Everyone experiences a blue mood once in a while. But when feelings of sadness become your only feelings, and when a blue mood turns into a persistent black cloud, you may be suffering from depression. - Depressive Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
The Depressive Personality Disorder is not yet recognized by the DSM Committee. It makes its appearances in Appendix B of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, titled "Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study." It is not clear in what way is the Depressive Personality Disorder different to other depressive illnesses, such as Dysthymic Disorder.
The Depressive has pervasive and continuous depressive cognitions (thoughts) and behaviors. They manifest themselves in every area of life and never abate. The patient is gloomy, dejected, pessimistic, overly serious, lacks a sense of humor, cheerless, joyless, and constantly unhappy. This dark mood is not influenced by changing circumstances. - Destiny And Tarot By : john
Although people are familiar with the fact that nobody can escape from being responsible for his or her actions, hundreds of beliefs, philosophies, theories and speculation have over the centuries attempted to answer the question “Is our life’s course predetermined or are we responsible for our destiny?” No matter which view you support, it is important to realize that the two extremes, idealism versus materialism, and all the theories in-between them, deal with our greatest fear: our future self. - Discover How To Stop Premature Ejaculation - 3 Excellent Ways To Prevent Early Ejaculation By : Robert D. Thomson
Learning how to stop premature ejaculation is easier than you might think. Although as many as 30% of men will suffer from this embarrassing condition at some point in their lives, there are many ways to prevent it that you can use immediately. Find out more in this article. - Disorder-specific Tests By : Sam Vaknin
There are dozens of psychological tests that are disorder-specific: they aim to diagnose specific personality disorders or relationship problems. Example: the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) which is used to diagnose the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
The Borderline Personality Organization Scale (BPO), designed in 1985, sorts the subject's responses into 30 relevant scales. These indicates the existence of identity diffusion, primitive defenses, and deficient reality testing. - Does your "shadow" love you? By : MyMindControl
The psychologist, Carl Jung, described hidden part of our psyche as "the shadow". It's the part that sometimes frightens us with the things we don't know, or don't want to know about ourselves. - Dr. Tara Palmatier--What Is Wrong With The Shrink4men By : Jason Atkinson
Although Dr. Tara claims to have a doctorate in psychology, she does not have her own practice but rather uses the Internet as a medium to advise people over the telephone. Her blog emphasizes cluster b personality disorders. As luck would have it, she only focuses upon women, as though women were the only people who possessed these personality disorders. Of course, if she were asked about this, she would gaslight her obvious attack upon women by claiming that she feels called to only focus upon women because of the many resources that already talk about men. However, it is not common to find blogs that are focused upon men with cluster b personality disorders. - Earn Money and Help Lives By Life Coaching By : TheAllKnowing
Are you insightful? Do you like working with people and having fun? If you have the heart, the enthusiasm, and the passion to be of service then life coaching is a good area of profession to consider. First things first though, you have to get proper training, and courses in psychology if possible - Eclectic Psychotherapy By : Sam Vaknin
The early days of the emerging discipline of psychology were inevitably rigidly dogmatic. Clinicians belonged to well-demarcated schools and practiced in strict accordance with canons of writings by "masters" such as Freud, or Jung, or Adler, or Skinner. Psychology was less a science than an ideology or an art form. Freud's work, for instance, though incredibly insightful, is closer to literature and cultural studies than to proper, evidence-based, medicine.
Not so nowadays. Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems. They refuse to be labeled and boxed in. The only principle that guides modern therapists is "what works" - the effectiveness of treatment modalities, not their intellectual provenance. The therapy, insists these eclecticists, should be tailored to the patient, not the other way around. - Empathy And Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Normal people use a variety of abstract concepts and psychological constructs to relate to other persons. Emotions are such modes of inter-relatedness. Narcissists and psychopaths are different. Their "equipment" is lacking. They understand only one language: self-interest. Their inner dialog and private language revolve around the constant measurement of utility. They regard others as mere objects, instruments of gratification, and representations of functions. - FAT AND DUMP- FIND THE SOLUTION HERE By : redzwan13
Are you overweight? Are you obesity? What have you done to reduce your weight loss problem? - Five Factor Personality Model By : Sam Vaknin
The Five Factor Model was suggested by two researchers, Costa and McCrae, in 1989. The designers of previous factor models sifted through bulky dictionaries and came up with thousands of words to describe human nature in all its variability. Not so the inventors of the Five Factor Model. It is based on and derived from various personality inventories. Surprisingly, it was proven to be as powerful as its vocabulary-based predecessors: it was able to predict subjects' behavior as accurately.
The Model consists of five high level dimensions. These are comprised of lower level facet traits. The dimensions allow the diagnostician to categorize the patient's overall propensities but do not provide for accurate predictions and prognoses regarding characteristics and likely behavior patterns. The facet traits make it possible to narrow down the range of behaviors and qualities consistent with the dimension. - Fluctuating Emotions Of People Form The Basis Of Psychological Theories By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
As many of use are aware the field of psychology is very vast. There are many branches that deal with a wide variety of subjects. To deal with all of these social problems the trained psychologist will have access to many documents and other sources. From these information sources a psychological theory may be developed that will help with that problem that the psychologist is studying. - Follow-up Therapy And Counseling For Psychological Abuse Patients By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
Our lives are intricately intertwined with our feelings. As you pass through life you will see many people who are strong both physically and emotionally. You will also see people who are weak. These people could be weak in their emotional outlook and in some cases they will be the victims of psychological abuse. - Fulfilling Core Needs in the Education Process By : Daiv Russell
In terms of learning, a useful tool to draw on is the Maslow hierarchy of needs. Given that each student has his or her particular situation on their hierarchy of needs, including physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization at various points in time, it is impossible to struggle to tutor in the direction of a mass audience. - Gender Bias In Diagnosing Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Ever since Freud, more women than men sought therapy. Consequently, terms like "hysteria' are intimately connected to female physiology and alleged female psychology. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bible of the psychiatric profession) expressly professes gender bias: personality disorders such as Borderline and Histrionic are supposed to be more common among women. but the DSM is rather even-handed: other personality disorders (e.g., the Narcissistic and Antisocial as well as the Schizotypal, Obsessive-Compulsive, Schizoid, and Paranoid) are more prevalent among men.
Why this gender disparity? There are a few possible answers: - Genetics And Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Are personality disorders the outcomes of inherited traits? Are they brought on by abusive and traumatizing upbringing? Or, maybe they are the sad results of the confluence of both?
To identify the role of heredity, researchers have resorted to a few tactics: they studied the occurrence of similar psychopathologies in identical twins separated at birth, in twins and siblings who grew up in the same environment, and in relatives of patients (usually across a few generations of an extended family). - Having Fun With Thought Crimes By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
Becoming a thought criminal means thinking your own thoughts and going after what you and deciding to get it no matter what. - Healing Psyche: False Hope Is non existent By : Robert D. Thomson
Healing Psyche: False Hope or false hopelessness. In the battle against cancer many people use the term 'false hope'. This is false hopelessness . Hope is alive, Hope heals. Healing Psyche explains that hope is always present, and that there are always possibilities of healing. From every disease known disease there people who have somehow healed themselves. - Help Kids Concentrate By : Silvester Thompson
All of us want our children to succeed in school. But for many kids and teens, concentration in this always-pressured, starved-for-time era can be difficult. Here are some tips for helping your son or daughter improve concentration and do better in the classroom: - Histrionic Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
Most patients with the Histrionic Personality Disorder are women. This immediately raises the question: Is this a real mental health disorder or a culture-bound syndrome which reflects the values of a patriarchal and misogynistic society? A man with similar traits is bound to be admired as a "macho" or, at worst, labeled a "womanizer".
Histrionics resemble narcissists - both seek attention compulsively and are markedly dysphoric and uncomfortable when not at the center of attention. They have to be the life of the party. If they fail in achieving this pivotal role, they act out, create hysterical scenes, or confabulate.
Like the somatic narcissist, the histrionic is preoccupied with physical appearance, sexual conquests, her health, and her body. The typical histrionic spends huge dollops of money and expend inordinate amounts of time on grooming. Histrionics fish for compliments and are upset when confronted with criticism or proof that they are not as glamorous or alluring as they thought they are. - How A Psychiatrist Deals With Our Emotional, Mental And Behavioral Patterns By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
For the many people who suffer from mental disorders and other problems that affect the minds, there are well trained doctors that can give help. These trained medical professionals are psychiatrists. A psychiatrist unlike a psychologist is trained in understanding and diagnosing what causes a person’s mental health to deteriorate. - How cults create an artificial personality in their followers (and how you can do it too). By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
The title seems ominous because it mentions that cults make an effort to change ones personality but in a sense we create artificial personalities all the time. We use one when we are shopping, another when we are dating and one when we are buying a car. They are all a different and useful form or "I/me". - How heavy can Generalized Anxiety Disorder affect a person? By : Robert D. Thomson
GAD is a kind of anxiety disorders that is affecting a huge number of our population. Symptoms of this disorder could be unbearable and they can, literary in a matter of a few days, change the lives of ordinary people into a living hell. - How Should A Forensic Psychologist Handle Evidence In A Criminal Proceeding? By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
The field of psychology is very wide and you will find that many people like to have careers in these different branches of psychology. One of the more popular areas of interest is that of forensic psychology. To be successful in this area of psychology you should first have an understanding of what a forensic psychologist is and what they need to do. - How Should A Forensic Psychologist Handle Evidence In A Criminal Proceeding? By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
The field of psychology is very wide and you will find that many people like to have careers in these different branches of psychology. One of the more popular areas of interest is that of forensic psychology. To be successful in this area of psychology you should first have an understanding of what a forensic psychologist is and what they need to do. - How to be an anonymous cult leader. By : MyMindControl
How does a hyper paranoid maniac like JK Ellis create a cult like following and still manage to protect himself from over-exposure? - How To Develop Accurate And Credible Psychology Experiments By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
The field of science is one that requires constant change and evaluation. To see if the various theories that we come up with are accurate and credible there needs to be experimental data that supports this theory. In psychology experiments are part of the way that psychology is studied. These psychology experiments are conducted in various places. - How To Find The Various Psychology Journals Online By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
As many of you are probably aware the internet is a warehouse of knowledge. This knowledge covers a broad spectrum of human interests. Among the many items that you can look into there are numerous magazines and journals that can be read. These online journals can be found even for psychology. In the psychology section you will find articles that you can read to find the various information that you require. These psychology journals online are very easy to find. - How To Find Useful Information From Psychological Journal Articles By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
Psychology is a very large area of study and there are constantly new advances being made with regards to solving the problems that many of us face. To let other psychologists see and understand the various new strides that have been made in their field of study there are large numbers of psychological journal articles that you can read. - How To Get The Very Latest Psychology Dictionary That Is Available By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
Psychology is the study of human nature. It is the field where our behavior, emotions and our reactions to various situations are studied and explored in an effort to understand the human being. The field of psychology draws many people from all walks of life that have this desire to know what makes a person act the way they do. While they may speak in many languages a psychology dictionary makes the various terms that are used readily available for all. - How To Hypnotize A Woman Through Hypnotic Mind Control By : Jason Atkinson
The way that you hypnotize a woman is to plant embedded suggestions in her mind so that she will do whatever you want her to do. Seduction is based upon the art of suggestion. You need to continue to plant seeds in the woman's brain in order to dominate her. There is completely nothing dishonest with doing this, because women dress suggestive, speak suggestively, and do many things that are sexually suggestive. This is the way women attract men, by being suggestive. - How To Hypnotize--Discover Two Types Of Suggestion By : Jason Atkinson
There are a number of ways that you can go about hypnotizing people instantly in covert ways so that they don'tknow you'rehypnotizing them. If you want to persuade someone without them knowing, you must first understand there are different types of trance and different types of hypnosis that you can use to create trance. - How to Make Miserable Decisions By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
If you've ever been around someone who is persistently miserable you'll find that they have a working strategy for making their experience unpleasant for themselves.
This article will give a few explanations why they use a strategy that makes them miserable, how that process works, and if this describes you, why you might want to change. It will also describe what you'll have to sacrifice if you no longer want to be miserable. - How To Manage Your Stress By : Ellen Huston
Stress begins in the mind, but it directly effects the body. In fact, just thinking about something that stresses you out will cause your blood pressure to rise, your heartbeat to increase, and your breathing to quicken. High anxiety levels can weaken the immune system making you more susceptible to diseases. - How we conceive man By : Sebastian Mendez
The human being is a bio - psycho - social, acting each of these areas as interdependent. - Hypnosis – Do You Dare To Be Put In A Trance? By : john
Hypnosis comes from the Greek word ‘hypnos’ meaning sleep. It is often confused and has been given bad publicity by science fiction and other media that depict it as a way of getting a person to do anything you want without their permission. - International Classification Of Diseases (icd) 10 By : Sam Vaknin
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is published by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. It included mental health disorders for the first time in 1948, in its sixth edition. In 1959, following widespread criticism of its classificatory scheme, the WHO commissioned a global survey of taxonomies of mental health problems, which was conducted by Stengel. The survey uncovered great disparities and substantial disagreements as to what constituted mental illness and how it should be diagnosed (diagnostic criteria and differential diagnoses).
Yet, it was not until 1968 that Stengel's recommendations were implemented in the eighth edition. The ICD-8 was descriptive and operational and did not commit itself to any theory of etiology, pathogenesis, or psychological dynamics. Still, it sported a confusing plethora of categories and allowed for rampant comorbidity (multiple diagnoses in the same patient). - Intuition By : Sam Vaknin
Intuition is supposed to be a form of direct access. Yet, direct access to what? Does it access directly "intuitions" (abstract objects, akin to numbers or properties - see "Bestowed Existence")? Are intuitions the objects of the mental act of Intuition? Perhaps intuition is the mind's way of interacting directly with Platonic ideals or Phenomenological "essences"? By "directly" I mean without the intellectual mediation of a manipulated symbol system, and without the benefits of inference, observation, experience, or reason.
Kant thought that both (Euclidean) space and time are intuited. In other words, he thought that the senses interact with our (transcendental) intuitions to produce synthetic a-priori knowledge. The raw data obtained by our senses -our sensa or sensory experience - presuppose intuition. One could argue that intuition is independent of our senses. Thus, these intuitions (call them "eidetic intuitions") would not be the result of sensory data, or of calculation, or of the processing and manipulation of same. Kant's "Erscheiung" ("phenomenon", or "appearance" of an object to the senses) is actually a kind of sense-intuition later processed by the categories of substance and cause. As opposed to the phenomenon, the "nuomenon" (thing in itself) is not subject to these categories. - Is Psychology A Science? By : Sam Vaknin
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 principles. They incorporate the problem in a larger body of knowledge, or in a conjecture ("solution"). They explain why we thought we had an issue on our hands - and how it can be avoided, vitiated, or resolved.
Scientific theories invite constant criticism and revision. They yield new problems. They are proven erroneous and are replaced by new models which offer better explanations and a more profound sense of understanding - often by solving these new problems. From time to time, the successor theories constitute a break with everything known and done till then. These seismic convulsions are known as "paradigm shifts". - Learn About The Life Coaching Miracle By : TheAllKnowing
Do you feel like you’re on a slump lately? Most of the time we want so many things that we don’t know which road to take; more often than not we find out that if we put our mind into it we can actually succeed in numerous career choices. This new found realization makes things even more complicated than it already is. - Learning How To Handle The Stresses Of Athletes Through Sports Psychology By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
There are many of you have watched television and sports in particular. As you watch these sports programs you will notice that the athletes are only one part of the sports team. To make sure that these individuals are performing to their ultimate level there are numerous other people. These are the trainers and supporters. There are doctors and other people who are all involved in seeing that the athlete has all of the mental, emotional and physical stability that is needed for competitions. Sport psychology plays a part at these various sporting events. - Life Coach - Do You Need One? By : john
Life coaching is one of those things that we hear about on TV and in the press and laugh at, thinking to ourselves how ridiculous people are that need such a thing. If you look into it further, however, you might be surprised at how useful a little life coaching can be. - Life Coaching and the Importance of Happiness By : TheAllKnowing
Happiness is the unending quest in which humans give their eyes and teeth for. A person has never reached true success if he has never felt real happiness. As a matter of fact the declaration of independence states, that happiness and the pursuit there off is man’s in alienable right. Meaning it is a god given right. - Life Coaching is not Giving Advices By : TheAllKnowing
A lot of people give themselves good advice and not following these very advices which may help save themselves from problems. Another problem we have is giving unsolicited advices without even knowing the true facts of the situation. - Life Coaching When Buried In Debt By : TheAllKnowing
The financial crisis has brought everything to a head. For a supposed super power the United States of America’s citizens is impoverished, and relying heavily on welfare. Every one is fighting to keep there heads above water and under a roof to call their own. Michigan’s auto industry has completely collapse. Giants are begging for a bail out to keep them afloat. - Masochistic Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
The Masochistic personality disorder made its last appearance in the DSM III-TR and was removed from the DSM IV and from its text revision, the DSM IV-TR. Some scholars, notably Theodore Millon, regard its removal as a mistake and lobby for its reinstatement in future editions of the DSM.
The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate herself and consider herself unworthy of love and worthless as a person. Consequently, he or she is prone to self-destructive, punishing, and self-defeating behaviors. Though capable of pleasure and possessed of social skills, the masochist avoids or undermines pleasurable experiences. He does not admit to enjoying himself, seeks suffering, pain, and hurt in relationships and situations, rejects help and resents those who offer it. She actively renders futile attempts to assist or ameliorate or mitigate or solve her problems and predicaments. - Medical Tips for Antihypertension Drugs By : Robert Baird
When administering an I.V. infusion of a thiazide or thiazide-like diuretic, dilute the drug in sterile water or Ringer's, lactated Ringer's, 0.45% normal saline, 0.9% normal saline, DsW, or dextrose 10% in water. - Meeting Maslow in the Classroom By : Daiv Russell
Abraham Maslow developed the Theory of Hierarchical Needs and published it back in 1943. The theory is so ubiquitous and versatile that concepts underlying it have been modified and used as a basis of other theories dealing with ways to motivate a variety of subjects, including individuals in education. - Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Asperger's Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
(The use of gender pronouns in this article reflects the clinical facts: most narcissists and most Asperger's patients are male.)
Asperger's Disorder is often misdiagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), though evident as early as age 3 (while pathological narcissism cannot be safely diagnosed prior to early adolescence). - Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Generalised Anxiety Disorder (gad By : Sam Vaknin
(The use of gender pronouns in this article reflects the clinical facts: most narcissists are men.)
Anxiety Disorders – and especially Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) – are often misdiagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). - Misdiagnosing Personality Disorders As Eating Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Eating disorders - notably Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa - are complex phenomena. The patient with eating disorder maintains a distorted view of her body as too fat or as somehow defective (she may have a body dysmorphic disorder). Many patients with eating disorders are found in professions where body form and image are emphasized (e.g., ballet students, fashion models, actors). - Mmci-iii Diagnostic Test By : Sam Vaknin
The third edition of this popular test, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III), has been published in 1996. With 175 items, it is much shorter and simpler to administer and to interpret than the MMPI-II. The MCMI-III diagnoses personality disorders and Axis I disorders but not other mental health problems. The inventory is based on Millon's suggested multiaxial model in which long-term characteristics and traits interact with clinical symptoms.
The questions in the MCMI-III reflect the diagnostic criteria of the DSM. Millon himself gives this example (Millon and Davis, Personality Disorders in Modern Life, 2000, pp. 83-84): - Mmpi-ii Test By : Sam Vaknin
The MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), composed by Hathaway (a psychologist) and McKinley (a physician) is the outcome of decades of research into personality disorders. The revised version, the MMPI-II (also known as MMPI-2), was published in 1989 but was received cautiously. MMPI-II changed the scoring method and some of the normative data. It was, therefore, hard to compare it to its much hallowed (and oft validated) predecessor.
The MMPI-II is made of 567 binary (true or false) items (questions). Each item requires the subject to respond: "This is true (or false) as applied to me". There are no "correct" answers. The test booklet allows the diagnostician to provide a rough assessment of the patient (the "basic scales") based on the first 370 queries (though it is recommended to administer all of 567 of them).
Based on numerous studies, the items are arranged in scales. The responses are compared to answers provided by "control subjects". The scales allow the diagnostician to identify traits and mental health problems based on these comparisons. In other words, there are no answers that are "typical to paranoid or narcissistic or antisocial patients". There are only responses that deviate from an overall statistical pattern and conform to the reaction patterns of other patients with similar scores. The nature of the deviation determines the patient's traits and tendencies - but not his or her diagnosis! - Motion to a Better Direction in Your Life through the Help of Colorado Marriage Counseling Service By : Corvina Beaulont
If you discover yourself at a loss or affected with personal issues, you can trust a Denver-based counseling service to guide you to a new path. - Narcissism And Personality Disorders By : Sam Vaknin
Are all personality disorders the outcomes of frustrated narcissism?
During our formative years (6 months to 6 years old), we are all "narcissists". Primary Narcissism is a useful and critically important defense mechanism. As the infant separates from his mother and becomes an individual, it is likely to experience great apprehension, fear, and pain. Narcissism shields the child from these negative emotions. By pretending to be omnipotent, the toddler fends off the profound feelings of isolation, unease, pending doom, and helplessness that are attendant on the individuation-separation phase of personal development.
Well into early adolescence, the empathic support of parents, caregivers, role models, authority figures, and peers is indispensable to the evolution of a stable sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Traumas and abuse, smothering and doting, and the constant breach of emerging boundaries yield the entrenchment of rigid adult narcissistic defenses. - Narcissist Vs. Psychopath By : Sam Vaknin
We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". These are the old names for a patient with the Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD). It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths. The latter may simply be a less inhibited and less grandiose form of the former. Indeed, the DSM V Committee is considering to abolish this distinction altogether.
Still, there are some important nuances setting the two disorders apart:
As opposed to most narcissists, psychopaths are either unable or unwilling to control their impulses or to delay gratification. They use their rage to control people and manipulate them into submission. - Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Clinical Features By : Sam Vaknin
Clinical Features of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Opinions vary as to whether the narcissistic traits evident in in infancy, childhood, and early adolescence are pathological. Anecdotal evidence suggests that childhood abuse and trauma inflicted by parents, authority figures, or even peers provoke "secondary narcissism" and, when unresolved, may lead to the full-fledged Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) later in life.
This makes eminent sense as narcissism is a defense mechanism whose role is to deflect hurt and trauma from the victim's "True Self" into a "False Self" which is omnipotent, invulnerable, and omniscient. This False Self is then used by the narcissist to garner narcissistic supply from his human environment. Narcissistic supply is any form of attention, both positive and negative and it is instrumental in the regulation of the narcissist's labile sense of self-worth. - Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Prevalence And Comorbidity By : Sam Vaknin
What is the Difference between Healthy Narcissism and the Pathological Kind?
In my book "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited", I define pathological narcissism as:
"(A) life-long pattern of traits and behaviors which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self to the exclusion of all others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition." - Negativistic (passive-aggressive) Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
The Negativistic (Passive-Aggressive) Personality Disorder is not yet recognized by the DSM Committee. It makes its appearances in Appendix B of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, titled "Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study."
Some people are perennial pessimists and have "negative energy" and negativistic attitudes ("good things don't last", "it doesn't pay to be good", "the future is behind me"). Not only do they disparage the efforts of others, but they make it a point to resist demands to perform in workplace and social settings and to frustrate people's expectations and requests, however reasonable and minimal they may be. Such persons regard every requirement and assigned task as impositions, reject authority, resent authority figures (boss, teacher, parent-like spouse), feel shackled and enslaved by commitment, and oppose relationships that bind them in any manner. - Not Otherwise Specified (nos) Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
It is a sign of the inadequacy of our current knowledge of personality disorders that both the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and its international counterpart, the ICD, maintain a "Personality Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)" diagnostic category. It is a catch-all, meaningless, "diagnosis", a testament to the diagnostician's helplessness and ignorance in the face of human complexity which often defies neat classification.
Even the rudiments of this diagnostic category are in dispute. There is no agreement as to what traits and behaviors it applies to. The ICD, for instance, includes the Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the NOS category, insisting that it is not a full-fledged personality disorder. - Nutrition for the Hyperactive Child. By : Robert D. Thomson
Some simple measures to calm your child and give them focus and the ability to learn - On Empathy By : Sam Vaknin
The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as:
"The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20th century, equivalent to the German Einfühlung and modelled on "sympathy." The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing. With other works of art, a spectator may, by a kind of introjection, feel himself involved in what he observes or contemplates. The use of empathy is an important part of the counselling technique developed by the American psychologist Carl Rogers." - Online Dating "Datehook Up" Amber Alert--Emotionally Abusive Women And Online Dating By : Jason Atkinson
It happens quite frequently that man are accused of being both physically and emotionally abusive, but the topic seldom comes up when women are considered physically and emotionally abusive. It is for this reason that behavior theorist Dr. Anthony Robert Taylor has recently taken a much closer look at the behavior of women on online dating sites. - Paranoid Personality Disorder By : Sam Vaknin
The paranoid's world is hostile, arbitrary, malicious, and unpredictable. Consequently, he or she distrusts others and suspects them. No good deed goes unpunished. Every gesture of goodwill is surely fuelled by ulterior, self-interested and uncharitable motives. Paranoids are firmly convinced that people are out to exploit, harm, get, or deceive them, sometimes just for the fun of it. Evil needs no pretext or context, it is just out there without good or sufficient cause.
These nagging doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of others gnaw at the paranoid's mind ceaselessly. No one is spared his constant brooding. His hypervigilance extends to family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Persecutory delusions are common: most paranoids believe that they are at the epicenter of conspiracies and collusions, big and small, quotidian and earth-shattering. - Pathological Narcissism, Psychosis, And Delusions By : Sam Vaknin
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 that the narcissist feels entitled to special treatment which is typically incommensurate with his real accomplishments. The Grandiosity Gap is the abyss between the narcissist's self-image (as reified by his False Self) and reality.
When Narcissistic Supply is deficient, the narcissist de-compensates and acts out in a variety of ways. Narcissists often experience psychotic micro-episodes during therapy and when they suffer narcissistic injuries in a life crisis. But can the narcissist "go over the edge"? Do narcissists ever become psychotic? - Persuasion Techniques--Master The Power Of Persuasion With Ease By : Jason Atkinson
The way that you use persuasive methods to learn power persuasion quickly and easily is by using hypnosis secrets that were created to increase your social status. By increasing your social status, you will literally increase every opportunity in your life and doors will open up for you that before had once been locked. - POWER: We want it. We have it. We DON'T use it. By : Jack \"JK\" Ellis
Q&A about Power and Control. Everyone wants it. Everyone has it. Why so few people use it. - Practice Happiness And Personally Develop Yourself By : Doug
There are 3 basic element to change your life, you need to ask, believe and receive the new life, you also need to live your new life, just don’t imagine it but really believe and feel that your life has changed, you should set specific goals, create plans, but the most important is to always stay positive and be grateful for the things you have. This science proves beyond any doubt that what the success scientists of the 20th century were teaching us is absolutely true. These experts coach and educate those who want to become a success in life and those who want to become a success in business. - Problem Gambling: What You Should Know By : Wade Gibson
Americans spend more on gambling than all other recreation combined. For most, it's a fun diversion but for a few, gambling can become a serious, life-altering problem. - Psychics – science or fantasy? By : Ken Wilson
The first time the word psychic was acknowledges was when a chemist in the 1800s used it to describe a illustrious magician. Having greek origins, psychic referred to the perfect synergy between mind and soul resulting in special abilities. - Psychological Signs And Symptoms By : Sam Vaknin
The first encounter between psychiatrist or therapist and patient (or client) is multi-phased. The mental health practitioner notes the patient's history and administers or prescribes a physical examination to rule out certain medical conditions. Armed with the results, the diagnostician now observes the patient carefully and compiles lists of signs and symptoms, grouped into syndromes.
Symptoms are the patient's complaints. They are highly subjective and amenable to suggestion and to alterations in the patient's mood and other mental processes. Symptoms are no more than mere indications. Signs, on the other hand, are objective and measurable. Signs are evidence of the existence, stage, and extent of a pathological state. Headache is a symptom - short-sightedness (which may well be the cause of the headache) is a sign.
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