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		<title>Having a Complex: A Short Explanation of Psychological Complexes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ordinary daily conversation when someone observes that a friend, family member or colleague "has a complex" about something, we generally mean that they seem to have a "sore spot" about the subject, or that they seem to have a recognizable pattern of reactions when certain situations or subjects arise.

These are good layman's observations which capture two of the most central qualities of what psychologists call "complexes"

1. They are developed around psychological wounds.

2. They have a repetitive, stereotypical quality.

Carl Jung describes complexes

The first psychologist to describe and discuss this psychological phenomenon was Carl Jung.]]></description>
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		<title>They Are Not All Monsters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many are still reeling from the recent painful Penn State scandal, I fervently hope that this will be a tremendous learning lesson for our society. As a treatment professional of sex offenders as well as victims, I would like to address some dynamics of perpetrators and witnesses that the public in general is perhaps unaware of.

What do child molesters look like? Your grandfather, your brother, your aunt, your employee, and yes, brilliant college football coaches. No one is all good or all bad; and sex offenders are no exception.]]></description>
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		<title>Beliefs And Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is commonly thought that what people believe will influence their mood states. This meta-belief is widely accepted in the mental health sector with competing frameworks existing for how that connection between beliefs and mood states can be therapeutically exploited for good. This article describes two well-known systems and suggests an alternative.

Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy

Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy is a therapy developed by Albert Ellis (1913-2007) which was the earliest cognitive psychotherapy (1955).]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness Killer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do actually want to be sad and stay sad, don't make any decisions that could impact on your life! It will, of course, classify you as an unhappy "Maximiser" according to research by Professor Joyce Ehrlinger of Florida State University, but at least you won't risk making the wrong decision? It seems we all have a choice. We can choose to be "Maximisers or Satisficers." Yet the behavioural difference between them is profound in both its nature and its results.

I have already written on the Five Levels of Happiness as a way of achieving full happiness across one's life. But of course that involves making a whole gamut of different choices or decisions related to each and every aspect of our life.]]></description>
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		<title>Perception Vs Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Applied Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is really out there? Why do we think that we think? This article explores some of the classic works on the topic.

Ross and Nisbett argue that our perceptions of ourselves and our casual attributions for our actions are not in fact complete or correct: we are not born tabla rasa, we do not consistently build basic beliefs, and we cannot predict or control the way we will act. Phychologists and sociologists provide support for this through numerous studies that show a basically consistent, unpredicted, and unsystematic patterns of behavior. Some authors begin by breaking down the idea that our opinions or reactions are as independent and systematic as we may believe.]]></description>
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		<title>Dualism, Incompatibilism, Vitalism, Non-Self: One Fallacy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biological Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When, in 1995, David Chalmers outlined what he believed to be a distinction between the "easy" problems of consciousness and the "hard" problem of consciousness, Daniel Dennett was quick to point out a fundamental flaw in his reasoning. I suggest that this same flaw exists in the logic of a whole range of philosophical positions concerning philosophy of mind.

Chalmers and Dennett

The philosopher David Chalmers has argued that the problem of explaining why human beings possess subjective experiences (which he terms the hard problem of consciousness) is distinct from other problems of conscious (e.g., how the brain focuses attention or reacts to environmental stimuli), in that these second kinds of problems can be solved by elucidating the neural mechanisms by which they take place, whilst the hard problem cannot be solved by invoking a mechanism.

The philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett published a response to David Chalmers, in which he argued that a complete understanding of all of the "easy" problems of consciousness would provide an explanation of the hard problem.

Dennett further elaborates on his position with the following analogy, taken directly from his paper "Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness":

"Imagine some vitalist who says to the molecular biologists: The easy problems of life include those of explaining the following phenomena: reproduction, development, growth, metabolism, self-repair, immunological self-defence... These are not all that easy, of course, and it may take another century or so to work out the fine points, but they are easy compared to the really hard problem: life itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy And Psychoanalysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being acquainted with the philosophy of Plato, Freud might draw out ideas about the unconscious as Plato reflects on the problem of the unconscious person's knowledge. Yes, and other topics, developed in the framework of Greek philosophy and is directly adjacent to the problem of the unconscious, whether it be dream or motivations of human activity, could not interest the founder of psychoanalysis. It is no accident, justification or excuse for his psychoanalytic postulates it, though not often resorted to the authority of Empedocles and Aristotle.

In the philosophy of the eighteenth century XVII-to the forefront of understanding the fore issues related to the understanding of the nature of the mind, the definition of the role and place of consciousness in human life.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified On Bringing The Best Or Worst Out In People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you accept that it is just as easy to do either! Which you achieve is pretty well entirely down to you! You can control your approach to get the Best or the Worst out of people. Now will come the shouts from readers that this is rubbish because some people are always intent in bringing out the worst in others! True, but aren't they still proving the point? Aren't they proving it is easy to do. Just because they decide not to try to bring the best out in people, why should you give up on it!

Take complaining, (which we all have to do from time to time)! This offers a great chance to vindicate our behaviour.]]></description>
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		<title>Squaring Circles In Emotional Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Applied Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squaring circles emotionally is a challenge anyway but truthfully, do we know what we are really feel and what we are don't? Are we certain that we know exactly what in our partner really turns us on and what does not? More, do we know why we react as we do with our partner - or don't, or why they respond to us as they do - or don't? We see the evidence of it but not the cause. So what does cause it?

Is it odd to reflect that two people can react to one another in a particular way and they can love each other for it? Yet they can be totally unaware of it as a behaviour, or, if they are aware, can believe it to be perfectly normal. Meanwhile others witnessing them cannot and do not want to emulate it, finding the behaviour unusual.

There can be any number of behaviours performed by ourselves of which we are totally unaware, their causes residing deep in our subconscious.]]></description>
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		<title>Clinical Separation Anxiety in Adults</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract:

This article examines the difficulty of separation anxiety in adults which for women can lead to anxiety in relationships, a lack of self worth and desperation leading to suicide attempts while in men can lead to obsessive relationship behaviour, over controlling and violence. How does this happen to people and how can they in a therapeutic environment learn to control and deal with their emotional responses.

Introduction:

The origins of separation anxiety (Bowlby 1956) come from when a child feels their carer (in most cases the mother) have abandoned them both emotionally and physically. In children this can be seen in their everyday behaviour with such activities as increased demands on the mother and aggressiveness, clinging behaviour in which the child physically holds onto the mother afraid to let her out of their site and grip.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified: Why Do We Help Others And Not Ourselves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often are we surprised at the constructive help and good advice we give to others? Yet, why don't we help ourselves and follow our own advice? I believe cripplingly low self-worth and self-esteem can lie at the heart of this emotional conundrum. We deny to ourselves that we deserve the help and advice. And fallaciously, we feel it must reward us somehow if we offer our help entirely to others for their benefit! Additionally there can be a dose of creative avoidance at work here too! Does all that make any kind of sense? Yes! And It can be explained even if it is not actioned!

So where do we see this example of human nature occurring? Everywhere! Take wills, you would think every lawyer at least would have made one! Some haven't! You would think doctors would adopt the healthiest lifestyles! Some don't! You would think those involved in healthcare would be the same, yet often they too can be marvellous at their jobs but some almost crazily overweight!

Do we not realise this illogical aspect of ourselves where it occurs.]]></description>
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		<title>With Our Psychology To Life Simplified, Should We Live Longer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems we may not! But what if we use our psychological powers to alter our habits and eat and drink responsibly, surely we would live longer then? Would you believe again the answer may be no? The disappointing news is that it seems the key to all this lies solely in our genes. But need this be taken as proof? I wonder!

If you are endowed with long life genes, then as like as not it seems, you can smoke more than you should, drink and eat more than you should. And, despite that, you will live as long as another with long life genes who has taken care of themselves physically.

Who says so? The Journal of The American Geriatric Society.]]></description>
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		<title>Squaring Circles: Psychologically Speaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one square a circle at the best of times? Psychology, spirituality, emotions can so easily conspire to make us go round in circles when trying to analyse ourselves, let alone help us break an inhibiting and constraining emotional pattern. When mathematicians have argued from their standpoint on how it might be done and fallen out over it, it can be no surprise that to square a vicious circle of emotional behaviour can challenge a psychologist or counsellor even more. Yet I believe in large measure it can be achieved.

We are each a bearer of our own behavioural patterning, much of it established unwittingly or ignorantly in our childhood and if uncorrected, it is then borne by us into and onwards through our adult lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Intelligence Phenomenon on LinkedIn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those fascinated by developments in our awareness and understanding of human emotional intelligence, what about this! On LinkedIn, as with many social networking sites, new groups are and can be formed. Yet surely none can be like the recent launch of the Emotional Intelligence Network which blasts through many misconceptions. From its launch only months ago, some 20,000 LinkedIn members have joined it and more flood in.]]></description>
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		<title>Smacking A Child &#8211; Good or Bad Psychology?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 'Old school - New school' divide on smacking will be heightened by the research findings of a joint project conducted by the McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. The study was made of two groups of West African children of five to six in age, one group from one private school and one from another. 63 youngsters were involved.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified With Ten Tips On Acquiring New Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some people succeed at this and some not? What is the trick which makes some people good at learning pretty well anything and everything? Particularly when we find we can try and fail so easily! Isn't that an annoying feature of Life for the rest of us? Aren't there some tricks or rules which can help solve this human predicament? Would you believe it if I told you that I think there are?!

Perhaps I should make a confession first. For love nor money, once I couldn't have drawn or painted you a decent picture. Now I can.]]></description>
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		<title>What Is The Invisible Killer of Self Improvement Techniques Sometimes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One may ask, why don't self-improvement systems always work for me? Aren't they most often well- reviewed books or courses and don't they clearly work well for many people? Then why doesn't a particular one I have bought work for me, when I really, really want it to work? Is the invisible killer lurking in that book or course? No! I would wager it is lurking within yourself.

Does it mean my wish to adopt the new skill or process is lacking?

Most often, no, because clearly you do want to change.

Could there be some obvious reason guaranteeing my failure which only I have not recognised?

Again, most often, No! It is likely that no-one else has spotted the real reason either.

Then, you might ask, is it simply because the key to achieve the change does not lie in the book or the course? Doesn't it lie in my head and my heart? And what has been lacking previously is the full hearted and total intellectual commitment to it. Without that, isn't that why I have not succeeded in past attempts?

Yes that is closer to the hidden truth!

But before you rush back to the self-improvement material with not only a new-found zeal but with your will energised to make it happen this time, there is a formal caution. Please do not think applying all the will you can muster will do the trick.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hard Problem of Consciousness Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The philosopher David Chalmers has drawn a distinction between "easy problems" of consciousness, and the "hard problem" of consciousness. According to Chalmers, the easy problems - directing attention, concentrating, etc. - can be solved by finding a cognitive mechanism by which they could occur.

In contrast, the hard problem is: "why do we experience anything?".]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified On The Wisdom Of Re-Discovering Our Child Within</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of us, our true emotional selves can lay trapped within us like a time-warp. Certain emotions can seem highly available to us but totally unmanageable. In many cases, they represent the embodiment of our child within.]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Memories? Scientists Say They Could Soon Be A Thing Of The Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team from Lund University in Sweden using EEG brain scans to study the brain have produced some interesting provisional findings. Their claim is that it is possible for a person to have a selective memory. With that would come the ability to screen out memories for a sufficient period of time for them then to be forgotten completely.

I Am Sceptical! But I Believe The Research Is Worth Following

The thrust of their claim is that tests on volunteers who took part allowed the team to detect the moment a memory was apparently forgotten, and that it was possible that by burying the memory for long enough it could be permanently erased from the brain.

The author of the study, Gerd Waldhauser, admitted however that aiding the forgetting of a traumatic event would be a more complex task.]]></description>
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		<title>Is This Yet Another Animal Emotion Parallel For Us All?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprise! Surprise! Dogs suffer emotionally if left alone while their owner is out all day working. A report on research appears in the UK Sunday Times Today (03 07 11) under the title "Feeling Wuff With Home Alone Syndrome." and this needs further airing.

This follows details of the new documentary "Buck" about the Horse Whisperer and horses reactions to human emotion.

In the research on dogs, a sample of situations were filmed to watch their behaviour once the owner had left for work for the day. What transpired surprised the researchers and the owners was that the pets did not settle into a quiet, compliant and patient frame of mind waiting for their owner to return.]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Baby Boomers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 11:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plasticity in the nervous system support cognitions, and is affected by age.Plasticity in the nervous system support cognitions, and is affected by age. Brain cognitive functions decline with age. Naturally, then, several neural mechanisms in the same brain areas also shift with age.]]></description>
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		<title>Human Behavior &#8211; Learn Why Konrad Lorenz Was a Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be forever grateful to the extraordinary German behaviorist and biologist Konrad Lorenz. After Carl Jung, who taught me the meaning of dreams and saved me from neurosis and a prominent schizophrenia, Konrad Lorenz is my second savior and big hero.

His detailed research, his conclusions and discoveries, and the valuable knowledge he provided to the world, saved me from the dangerous darkness of ignorance. Only because I studied his books with the same attention I studied Carl Jung's books, could I trust the unconscious mind as much as I did.

Lorenz received a Nobel Prize in 1974.]]></description>
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		<title>Trichotillomania: Every Day Is a Bad Hair Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) affects millions of men, women and children who are convinced they are the only ones who do something so "weird" or that they must be "crazy." Sufferers range in all ages, but many are children who experience shame, embarrassment, hopelessness and depression. Some sufferers have worn wigs, bandanas, and false eyelashes for as long as they can remember. They have never ridden a roller coaster for fear their hair will fly off.]]></description>
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		<title>A Definition and History of Social Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essay that includes a definition, in own words, and history of social psychology, at least six major theorists, the types of issues this field considers, the five major variables of interest to social psychologists, and major contemporary research trends in the field.

This is a science that aims to accurately, objectively, open-mindedly and continuously research why and how people are in social settings (Baron, Byrne, &#038; Branscombe, 2005). Some theorists that contributed to advancement of social psychology are French gentleman Gabriel Tarde, with the imitation concept, Gustave LeBon and Emile Durkheim with the theory on society's influence on the individual. In 1874, Herbert Spencer extended Darwin's concepts from biology into sociology.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Libet and the Readiness Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, the debate over whether or not humans possess such a thing as free will was firmly within the realms of philosophy. Libertarians argued that humans are capable of making deliberate, reasoned choices, while determinists argued that causality and the physical laws of the universe imply that all of our actions are completely predetermined by the events which cause them, thus rendering us mere automatons.

Then, in the 1980s, the physiologist Benjamin Libet conducted a set of experiments which appeared to finally settle the matter. Libet asked volunteers to flick one of their fingers or wrists, measuring their brain activity through electrodes whilst they did so.]]></description>
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		<title>Criminal Profiling for PR China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract:All over the World serial and mass killings occur almost daily somewhere. This criminal activity is best known in the USA and the UK where the freedoms of society allow murderers to act out their psychotic murders with the protection of rules that ensure freedom of movement, rights to silence and privacy. In the past in China society was so regulated that crime in all areas was extremely difficult to conceal.]]></description>
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		<title>A Psychologist You Should Know About</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether a person has some type of mental imbalance, chemical dependency, phobia or more, he or she will need to put their trust in a proven expert in order to get help. Marsha Linehan is that expert and has the background and credentials to show for it.

Who she isA professor at the University of Washington, Marsha Linehan offers a lot to not only her students but also the psychology community as a whole. She holds an array of positions at the university, including Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics.]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking Plainly, What Is a Psycho-Educational Assessment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People may seek a psychological assessment for many reasons; learning, behaviour, injury, health, emotional problems or development concerns to name just a few. A psycho-educational or educational assessment is simply one kind of psychological assessment. For example, an educational assessment investigates learning potential and academic skill development.]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity and Technology: The Alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SITUATION....THE GAP

Technology is advancing at lightning speed. Faster all the time, it is spreading into all areas of our lives. Equipment that once was obsolete two years ago is now obsolete within 6 months.]]></description>
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		<title>3 Recommended Fixes for Social Anxiety: Feel Timid? Become a Tiger!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social anxiety is exhibited by people who are painfully shy and overwhelmed by worry in social situations. Treatment for it is important; you need to eliminate the anxiety in order to have a normal social life and to enhance the quality of your overall life.

If you experience social anxiety, you probably are fearful of being judged critically by others and feeling humiliated, embarrassed or rejected. When you are in a social situation with people you value highly, but don't know, you probably experience symptoms, such as heart palpitations, hyper-scanning of the environment, self-doubt, over-thinking or even excessive sweating.

Social anxiety disorder is pervasive but it is treatable with counseling, psychotherapy and some medications.]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Process: Navigating Problematic Situations in Social Work Practicum Settings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The role of the student social worker is not without cognitive dissonance: a mind state generally recognized in the field of psychology as a feeling of discomfort brought about by engagement in behavior inadequately aligned with one's attitudes/beliefs. The level, frequency and intensity of such dissonance can vary, depending upon a few different things, such as the individual student's emerging (professional) identity, personal awareness around such identity and the particular circumstance(s) facing the student.

Every master's level social work program involves a practice component, which typically consists of an unpaid internship, of various design and quality; students undertake their internships (also known as practicums) in many different service delivery organizations/systems, including psychiatric, correctional and educational facilities (to name but a few). If an individual is to encounter difficulties during time spent in social work school, it is often at the practice juncture that the problems begin to arise.]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Answer to Your Anxiety May Be Downloadable!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a practicing psychotherapist in Cary and Crystal Lake, IL, I have seen all kinds of approaches to the treatment of anxiety come and go.

However, to date, CBT is the best! Research has demonstrated that cognitive behavioral therapy, or, CBT can produce dramatic results in reducing your anxiety.

It works by combining effective mood-enhancing interventions with new cutting-edge techniques that have yielded impressive results. CBT improves your thinking and your ability to accurately assess troubling issues.

Your nervous system then starts to view conflicts calmly and more realistically, rather than in an extreme, panicky or catastrophic way. This dramatically reduces your stress, and helps to improve your sleep and appetite hygiene.

Though few people are privy to it, CBT can be delivered to you, using self-help educational programs, called Self-Therapy Kits, or STKs.]]></description>
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		<title>Warning About The Depression Treatment Myth: Don&#8217;t Become Another Victim!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a board-certified counselor practicing in Cary and Crystal Lake, IL, I have treated many patients for depression. Treatment for depression used to have good results.

30 or 40 years ago, if you came to a therapist with symptoms of depression, he could reliably tell you that the odds that you would soon get better were solidly on your side. He would most likely assure you that most episodes of depression run their course, benefit from counseling and end with total recovery, without drug treatment of any kind.

However, in the last several decades something changed in the field of diagnosing and treating depression that has led to a 600 percent increase in patients collecting Social Security disability because of psychiatric illness! There is no question that the contemporary approach to treating psychological problems is the use of drugs.

Between 1974 and today, the outlook for treating depression went from being a positive one to one that sometimes afflicts the patient for life.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology and Classroom Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are different fields of psychology each assuming a study of different aspect of human behaviour as it relates to social, mental, emotional and developmental issues. Whilst clinical psychology looks at diagnosing and treating disorders of the brain, emotional disturbances and behaviour problems, child psychology looks at the mental and emotional development of the child and is also a part of developmental psychology which takes into consideration the study of change in behaviour that occurs throughout the lifespan of the child.

Cognitive psychology looks at how the human mind receives and interprets impressions and ideas while social psychology examines how the actions of others influences the behaviour of an individual (Webster's New World Medical Dictionary).

Consequently there are several schools of thought on the subject and countless tests, assessments and research have been carried out in these different branches of psychology, each addressing issues and causes as they relate to human behaviour. The branch of psychology relating to the child however has seen a great deal of interest over the years.]]></description>
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		<title>2 Of My Most Successful Patients Do This Everyday To Enhance Their Self-Esteem &#8211; Do You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone feels inadequate when things go bad. With a chronic self-esteem disorder, though, these thoughts are with you on a daily basis. They occupy the real estate in your head and entirely distort your view of who you are and your capabilities.

Cognitive therapy is a proven treatment that can defuse and even reverse those thoughts.]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Behaviour, Emotions and Emotional Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After over 10 years in studying human behaviour from the psychological and the sociological perspectives in detail I am left with only one conclusion and that is that human behaviour is not governed by the cognitive functioning domain, but human behavior is governed by the inner soul of man, which technically speaking means the Inner Interactive System of man. The main reason that we are not governed by our thinking is because each of us have the ability to choose, whatever we want unless we take away the ability to rationalize through different chemicals or drugs.

Proof of this lies in the scientific facts that we all have unique finger prints, DNA, looks, hair, voices and so many other unique features that makes evolution of a unique person impossible, especially due to the number of different molecules and atoms that have to come together; all at the same time in order to become functional. We cannot have man evolving piece by piece over millions of years.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the need for an individualistic educational psychology emphasizing on the central role of the learner

Education and psychology are related in more than just one way and the psychology of education could be related to educational principles in psychology or how education as a discipline is taught within psychology as a subject and how these two disciplines merge. This is primarily the focus of educational psychology which studies how human learning occurs, what ways of teaching are most effective, what different methods should be used to teach gifted or disabled children and how principles of psychology could help in the study of schools as social systems.

Psychological education would be completely focused on learning methods as structured or imparted according to psychological and individual needs of the students. Education would differ according to culture, values, attitudes, social systems, mindset and all these factors are important in the study of education in psychology.

Educational psychology is the application of psychological objectives within educational systems and psychological education as I distinguish here is application of educational objectives in psychological processes.]]></description>
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		<title>Past-Life Regression: Reality or Fantasy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt that regressing a client to a "past-life" can be therapeutic. But does that mean the client actually returns to a previous life, dozens or hundreds of years ago? No. The journey is akin to believing you've been abducted onto a flying saucer and impregnated by aliens.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology in China &#8211; Fairy Tales For Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fairy Story for the Chinese Female Single Patient:

Introduction

Often in therapy a story can help the client to understand their own emotions and feelings about their own situation. At first they just hear the story as a narrative but soon as with most good stories the client puts themselves into the action and associates with the plot line, as they try to make sense of how they can assimilate the underlying psychological message to their own lives.

In China many young girls under 27 years old are obsessed with finding Mr. Right, the boy who is from the good family, with a good education, with a good job with good prospects and has a good character.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified on the Five Levels of Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The achievement of true and total happiness emanates from a number of sources. There are many authors who have tried to capture the essence of it. The closest I have heard to the key ingredients named four vital sources of happiness.Having described them, I shall share with you a fifth of my own.

Those five sources are, I believe, essentially interlinked and inter-dependent.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified and Applied by Walking the Talk is Vital to Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning the psychology surrounding a particular character trait or behavioural problem is without doubt a vital first step towards achieving change in oneself. Yet, if for a single moment, we forget that the feature we are trying to change has been patterned into our behaviour, then achieving permanent change in the way we behave becomes less and less likely.

Our learning identifies for us the way we are, but it does not of itself initiate change in us. Only by applying ourselves - to walk the talk- does that occur.

The mistake is made in various forms.]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Revolutionizes Psychoanalytical Therapy &#8211; Interview With Luca Bosurgi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luca Bosurgi, a defining voice in the emerging field of mind-spirit therapy, transforms psychoanalysis to spiritual evolution. He has developed an original mind coaching technique: The CognitiveOS Hypnosis. For the first time he has agreed to talk about the power of the CognitiveOS Hypnosis and why it's the next step in psychoanalytical therapy.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Your Counseling Intervention Should Begin Here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term counseling intervention has taken on a little different meaning since the A&#038;E show about addictions interventions, although this particular kind of intervention has been around since Vernon Johnson began it in the 1970's, I believe. To me though, as a domestic violence and anger management trainer, the words counseling intervention mean interventions that I use in my counseling sessions.

Those interventions come from Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existential or Experiential models, from the 12 Steps, from Grief Counseling, from journaling models, from Gestalt, from T.A., from any number of counseling models, from brainwave and heart rate variability biofeedback, from sound and light and binaural beat technology, from Chi Gong, but most importantly they reflect my orientation toward Solution Oriented Brief Therapy, Positive Psychology, and the Pillars of Brain Fitness. Brain fitness is a great lifestyle and counseling intervention which is the foundation for the growth of new neurons.

I have been involved in my own personal growth for 30 years, and have sought out tools to try out that have continued to move me towards what I believe is an effective and efficient use of my strengths.]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Representational Perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The representational perception exists either in the level of internal representations of objects that do not have a physical manifestation in the environment, or in the level of representations in relation to the objects that do have physical manifestation in the environment. If one for example sits on some lane and perceives the scenery opening in front of him or her, what he or she actually perceives is are the contents of the representational perception rather than a scene that is context free from information.

What this means is that although representations of objects that do have physical manifestation in the environment at the same time they are perceived, the content such as colors are in fact only associated type of information to the representations of the objects, as are for example sounds. When one hears another one speaking, instead of hearing only the sound waves, he or she automatically hears them as words if the sub-conscious has been taught to interpret those patterns of sounds as the words that are then heard, and so it is also in case of everything in the semantic content of the representational perception.]]></description>
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		<title>With My Goal-Setting, Why Isn&#8217;t it Working? &#8211; I Don&#8217;t Know What is Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 18:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I and others have explained in articles, books and eBooks, follow a prescribed and well-tried process and you carry a pretty good guarantee of achieving a goal. Yet for many, as they progress towards the point of achievement, they sometimes feel themselves easing up, or even beginning to bail out. This can happen even when the goal is virtually achieved.]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Common Psychological Cause For Failure in Goal-Setting For Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cause can be expressed in a number of different ways but it always amounts to the same thing. It could be said to be:-



Expecting a goal setting process to achieve success for you while you wait.
Imagining a get rich wealth creation system will do it all for you
Believing you have always been in good place, but still just need to find that winning formula.



But there is more to it than that!

Would you believe it, but the vast majority of get-rich quick schemes actually work! Very few of them are fraudulent scams. Yet when clearly most work, doesn't it strike you as really odd - and significant - that each method has a trail of people who have failed when trying it.

Could it be that it is not the system at fault at all, but the way people are interacting with it?

Conversely and most fundamental of all, isn't it undeniably true that not one single system works on its own? And equally, not one single goal, whether, in the mind or written down succeeds of its own accord.

These may sound a desperately elementary statements to make, but unfortunately they are unavoidably true and reflect a self-made trap they fall into.

Yes, of course our success lies to start with in our minds, following our decision and commitment to strive for it through our goal we have set.

But by far the greater part of our potential success lies in our own hands and how we take action.]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens to Goal-Setting Psychology Simplified When Your Physical &amp; Mental Fitness Are Low?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Goal-setting psychology, however simple, can be thrown out of the window if one is not keeping an eye on ones own physical fitness and well-being. The body - unfit and under-nourished - guarantees lower resilience in ones thinking and increases the tendency to give up easily. So we need to cover that.

It is not making goals, or even achieving them that are the greatest psychological challenges to us with goal-setting.]]></description>
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		<title>Western Psychology, Eastern Cultures &#8211; Mismatch?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 10:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does psychology as an import from Western culture adequately explain Eastern behavior? Are all human brains and thus, development, cognition, and behavioral patterns essentially alike? Are its methods of therapy appropriate or displaced? Are the goals for outcome similar regardless of geography, or must they be modified to reflect the values of the dominant culture? And perhaps most of all: is the overlay of a Western model of the mind effecting change on the cultural psyche of the East?

Psychology as a scientific study has the pathology-driven Western medical model at its foundation, overlaid by the values of ancient Greece, such as individuation, self-control, and self-efficacy. The cultures of Asia have at their core the values of ancient China, such as hierarchy, moral development, achievement, and social responsibility, and a non-dualistic medical system that is based on principles of balance and harmony. Some, such as Richard Nisbett in The Geography of Thought,argue that these phenomenally diverse core systems result in very different processes of cognition.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified &#8211; On Like Father, Like Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That we inherit genes from our parents is no longer deniable. That we copy many traits and behavioural patterns from our parents is equally indisputable, yet many of us are blind to our susceptibility to replicate these at an early age. More, we can be so good at this that we can present ourselves with a choice about how we live the rest of our lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Integrative Psychotherapy and Transpersonal Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integrative Psychotherapy is defined in three ways: (1) a blend of psycho-therapeutic approaches based on each client's uniqueness; (2) an approach that considers the best of both Eastern and Western models of mental health; and, (3) a combination of psychological and somato-energetic therapies for the goal of mental and emotional well-being. Further, the whole person is considered, not only mental and emotional aspects but also physical, spiritual, and social components plus the transpersonal realm. This model is well supported by evidence-based healthcare practices and brings together therapeutic models and methodologies from both ends of the mind-body continuum in order to assist in the restoration of a state of balance.

Integrative Psychotherapy indeed represents the very balance that it's meant to facilitate.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychological Counselling &#8211; What and When to Tell About Childhood Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychological counselling is supposed to be a private and confidential exercise with an independent and objective person. The vast majority of counsellors know that and respect it utterly. But for the person being counselled, that's difficult to keep in mind.]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing the Psychological Impact Felt Later in Life From Child Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens in our childhood for most of us is largely forgotten by the time we reach early middle age. We forget either because we just do, or because we screen it out. Fortunately, we can be encouraged professionally to recall much of it comparatively easily, if we wish to.

It is now better understood how children learn to pattern themselves mentally and emotionally from an early age.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great &amp; Simple Psychology Behind &#8220;All I Know, is All I Know Now&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adopting this principle sends a fantastic message to all corners of our mind. To admit we don't know everything provides us with two amazing stimuli. The first is we can relax, tell what we know and be self-respectful of what we do not know.]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Brief Strategic Therapy &#8211; Origins and Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief strategic therapy is an innovative approach to solving all major psychopathologies in a short time, thus with high levels of efficiency and efficacy.

This approach derives, on a theoretical level, from systemic-constructivist theories, with the refusal of any kind of indisputable "truth": there isn't just one reality but rather there are many realities depending on the adopted view points or on the instruments used to observe reality, thus defining a shift from a focus on the person's intrapsychic activity to the person's relational aspects.

The theory of the brief strategic approach is also influenced by the concept of feedback and circular causality of modern cybernetics, and by the ideas of authors like Heinz von Foerster and Ernst von Glasersfeld. Radical constructivism is a philosophical current of thought which has developed during the second half of the 1900's. It states the impossibility to pursue an objective representation of reality because the reality we live, the reality we experience, is the result of our own acts of creating.

All those characteristics we believed intrinsic to " things" are now to be seen as characteristics that belong to the observer: reality cannot be considered as something "objective" because it is constructed by the cognitive processes of the individual who experiences it.]]></description>
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		<title>Affectively-Based Attitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attitude is a lasting evaluation of people, objects, or ideas which may be positive or not. The concept of attitude is composed of three components which include cognitively-based attitudes, affectively-based attitude, and behaviorally-based attitude. An example of my cognitively-based attitude is the attitude of disallowing my seatmates in school to copy my assignments so that I will remain one of the best students in school.]]></description>
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		<title>Theory of Therapy and Clinical Supervision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my more than twenty years of working in the psychotherapy field, I have developed my own eclectic approach that was first based in the psychodynamic perspective, then transpersonal, then systems theory. Then there came years of working in hospitals fully immersed in the medical model utilizing the cognitive behavioral interventions favored there. In the last few years I have become increasingly enamored of Solution Focused and other brief therapies and have received additional training in these modalities.

The tenets of Solution Focused therapy that I agree with are that small changes will ultimately have major impact on the system, that minimal historic exploration is required in most cases, that the therapist helps by the encouragement and validation of small changes and by the identification and amplification of exceptions, the presupposition of good intentions, and the use of the client's own language.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Cognition &#8211; An Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social cognition theory is based on two fundamental assumptions. One assumption is that humans learn from the behavior of other humans. The second is that it is important to understand the thought process of a human in order to make a valid and reliable psychological assessment.

Social cognitive theory uses key ideas from two main branches of psychology: cognitive psychology and social psychology.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Simplified Regarding Our Blindspots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many quirkish features to the way we are wired up, cognitively speaking. You must have mislaid a letter only to find it where you have looked five times! And I bet you have lost your car keys only to find them just where you left them! The latest lost and found item to test our sanity is our mobile phone! How easy it is to mislay that: then look for it and not see it right under our nose! But there is an explanation!

Mislay your keys or your phone and what happens on the back of that realisation? We tell ourselves with conviction that we have lost them. Most likely, there is our other voice within trying to convince us lamely that we have merely mislaid them, But the trouble is that it is not strong enough and gets shouted down by the voice asserting we have lost them.

What then would happen if we were to suddenly find them, remembering we have convinced ourselves that we have lost them? And we've done more than that! Now our head is fast filling with the realisation of the inconvenience and problems resulting from the inevitable loss!

What ever would happen if we found them right now? Wouldn't we feel pretty foolish, because self-evidently we hadn't lost them when we were certain we had?

So why is it we can we look in all the places we could have left them, not see them, only eventually to find them staring at us in one of those self-same places? Aren't we all guilty sometimes for even feeling convinced that someone must have slipped them back there - when we weren't looking - just to make us feel more foolish still!

But foolish or not, why did we have this blindspot in the first place? How could we have actually looked straight at the very lost item on each search and still not seen it?

The reason is depressingly simple - as well as disturbingly revealing on how we are wired up.

What happens is this: first, the keys we don't have; next the dominant voice tells us we have lost them; then the subconscious part of our brain accepts the message unquestioningly and does its utmost to convince our conscious mind of that reality; then, worse, it convinces our whole psyche that to find them would not be a good idea, because it would not be believable to us! So quite literally, we don't see them for looking at them!

So how do we find them eventually?

Don't we tend to stop finally and challenge our current thinking? Don't we, shake ourselves and tell ourselves as convincingly as we can, that we really can't have lost them.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Dissonance Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term cognitive is defined as "of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes." The word dissonance means "disagreement or incongruity." Cognitive Dissonance Theory, therefore, is the theory of how and why we lie to ourselves. According to an experiment published in a 1959 edition of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, which was conducted by L. Festinger and J.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatry &#8211; The Nightmare of the People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract:

In this paper I want to review the investigations from the Citizens Committee for Human Rights in Mental Health. It is this organisation in the United States and other countries that have consistently brought the dangers of psychiatry to the attention of the general public who by and large are the victims of a marriage between pharmaceutical companies and their paid distributors of lethal drugs, psychiatrists. This alliance has been based on the greed for money, profits and kudos all in the name of a science that as one leading authority called - "hokum"

Introduction: A Short History

The history of psychiatry is strewn with the deaths; torture and misadventure that would make any sane person wonder why it has been allowed to continue to practice this black art for so long.]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Touch-Counselling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction

Ever since Harry Harlow's experiments with rhesus monkeys showed that, despite behavioral psychologist's ideas, a baby monkey preferred a soft comforting mother to just one that fed them. What Harlow discovered in 1958 was so important that it changed child rearing practices for generations to come. It was also a liberating time for woman as he showed that men could raise children just as well as any mother.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychoanalysis &#8211; Yesterday Versus Today &#8211; Why We Need to Adapt to Our New World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do I start? It's gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don't commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues.

Also, I don't want to get into the "politics" of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the "war" it's into against other branches of Psychology such as cognitive sciences. The point I'm trying to prove is that Freudian Psychoanalysis and the people who study and has studied it (including me) have some points and miss some others.

I think Freud was dead right regarding the dynamics of the unconscious mind (the existence of unconscious processes is not arguable). (mental note: avoid being technical) Once you understand the theory and articulate it, you can trace behaviors back to its' elemental state.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Theories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a short primer on Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Theories

Behavioral learning theories suggest that learning results from pleasant or unpleasant experiences in life while cognitive theories of learning suggest that learning is based upon mental processes. However, in an admonishment against being too closely guided by any one set of pedagogical principles, Johnson (2003) suggests that a fixation with process oriented educational theories among those in the politics of education has not served the education community well by aligning practitioners into separate camps.

A behavioral view in psychology has held that exploratory analysis of cognition must begin with an examination of human behavior (William &#038; Beyers, 2001). Behavioral theory has benefited from the work of early researchers such as Pavlov, Thorndike, and later on the work of B.F.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A secret means information that you try to hide from others!

This definition contains important features of secrets:

1-Info: You are not considered crazy if you keep a secret. When you ask people what secrets are, then they often think of things like cheating, something stolen or a strange happening in youth period. Of course these issues are often kept secret, but other innocent subjects are kept as secrets too like your salary, smoking habits, your admired movie star and so on!

2- Unconsciously or intentionally: You keep secrets either accidentally or intentionally.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Has it Taken 40 Years to Discover How to Improve IQ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1950s, Professor Jensen - a leading authority on intelligence - concluded that nothing could be done to improve our IQ level - that it was fixed from early childhood. This was the scientific consensus. Numerous studies investigating the effect of different types of cognitive training over the past 40 years have not done much to change this view - that is, until 2008 when a team of cognitive psychologists from Bern, Switzerland and Michigan, United States, demonstrated that a very specific type of cognitive training can improve IQ dramatically.

Why has it taken 40 years to discover how to improve IQ?

It is only thanks to recent insights from cognitive psychology about the nature of short term memory and its importance in cognitive functioning have at last enabled a training exercise to be engineered that improves IQ.]]></description>
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		<title>Give Yourself the Investigative Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your public service involves interviewing surviving victims of or eyewitnesses to violent events, you will want to learn more about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Witness Memory Retrieval Technique and how each can impact your investigation.

Research proves there are two distinct human processes that prevent investigators and police personnel from conducting the most effective investigation when working with surviving victims of and eyewitnesses to violent crimes. Those processes have been identified as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Memory Retrieval (Recall).

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how does it impact the Witness Memory Retrieval process?

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a reaction to a violent event that evokes intense fear, terror and helplessness. Many surviving victims of violent crimes...rape, robbery, murder, kidnapping, terrorism, sexual abuse and physical assault, for example, are unable to recognize the signs of emotional stress they are experiencing.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy &#8211; An Introduction and History</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach used by therapists to help to promote positive change in people by addressing their thought patterns, feelings and behavioural issues. Difficulties with irrational thinking, dysfunctional thoughts and faulty learning are identified and then treated using CBT. Therapy can be conducted with individuals, groups or families and the goals of CBT are to restructure one's thoughts, perceptions and responses which facilitate changes in behaviours.

The earliest form of CBT was developed by an American Psychologist, Albert Ellis (1913-2007) in 1955, naming his approach Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT).]]></description>
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		<title>Learned Ones Are Full of Cognitive Dissonance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People start learning right from their childhood. They form concepts and then arrange those concepts, then store those concepts and then when called upon by the circumstances use those concepts. This processing of information and concepts is called cognition in Psychology.]]></description>
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		<title>A Complete Guide to Forensic Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[History:

Forensic psychology came in light in the twirl of the twentieth century. In 1901, William stern studied on recollection of memory course. He made his students to analyze a picture for few seconds and then asked questions to them relating to it.]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Abnormal Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abnormal behavior is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) with criterion that includes the following: unusualness, social deviance, faulty perceptions or interpretations of reality, significant personal distress, maladaptive self-defeating behavior, and dangerousness. Abnormal behavior has many definitions, but in most cases a combination of these criteria defines abnormality. Historically, it has been shown that people with abnormal behavior disorders can be very creative, making contributions to science, mathematics, arts, sports, and politics.]]></description>
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		<title>What is Intelligence? The Three Main Theories of Intelligence &#8211; Two Good, One Bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people talk about a person's 'intelligence' it is not generally clear what underlying ability or abilities this term refers to. This article is intended to clarify in layman's terms what psychologists and brain scientists can mean by intelligence. Basically, there are two good theories--and scientists are divided on which is the best theory--and one bad one which all scientists I know of reject.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On why we have dreams and the functions of dreaming 

The psychology of dreams has been explained either with the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams and the psycho-physiological process of dreaming. Thus there are two distinct schools in the psychology of dreams - one school of thought believes in the relation between REM sleep and dreaming, the role of dreams in learning and dreams as a result of random neural firings further leading to random images that may not have any significance; and the other school of thought believes that dreams occur as a result of unconscious and repressed impulses and could be explained with psychoanalytic symbolism and in turn also explain psychic phenomenon or even lead to understanding the causes of mental illnesses.

According to Freud, 'dreams are the royal road to the unconscious', in the sense that dreams could be analyzed in a way that will reveal the hidden impulses in the unconscious. Dreams may thus reveal who we 'really' are, what we 'really' want and how we want to attain these desires.]]></description>
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		<title>Intentions and the Illusion of Free Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who's in control of the choices that you make? Is it you? Science says not a chance! What do you really control anyway, the volume on your radio, the temperature of your car. What else?

The brain has specific cortical circuits that when triggered are associated with sensations that arise in the course of wanting to initiate and then carry out a voluntary action. Once these circuits are connected and their molecular and synaptic signatures identified, they constitute the neuronal correlates of consciousness for intention and action.

It works both ways.]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron Beck and His Cognitive Behavioral Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years before Aaron Beck developed his Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Freud's concept of psychodynamics held sway. It's based on a person's re-actions to his or her environment and their genetic make-up.

Beck tired of this long held view, and in 1967 in his paper, 'Depression. Causes and Treatment,' first came to describe his theory of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

At about the same time, another eminent psychiatrist, Dr.]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic Principles Of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) was developed by Dr Aaron Beck in the 1960's. It has proved extremely effective in dealing with such problems as depression and anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks and phobias. However, it has also been used for more complicated difficulties such as psychosis and personality disorder.

How it works:

The way we think about situations, have a direct effect on the way we feel about them.]]></description>
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		<title>How Hindsight Influences the Attitude of Teenagers Towards Victims of Rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The incidence of rape is unacceptably high during the last decade.The victim usually ends up feeling betrayed by the law. It is not uncommon that a rapist could be released within 24 hours on bail. It is also not uncommon that the rapist could commit the same crime while out on bail.]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Therapy &#8211; Dreams Can Be Emotional Problem Solvers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should we bother with dreams?Aren't dreams just nonsense...just neurons randomly firing? 

 Evolution has selected for dreaming. Sleep researchers tell us that all humans and many animals dream several times every night. Dream sleep is so important that experimental subjects prevented from experiencing REM sleep, the part the sleep in which dreams occur, begin to hallucinate after just a couple of nights of deprivation.]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Oppositional Defiant Disorder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oppositional Defiant Disorder - What is it?

Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, often abbreviated as ODD, represent a small but significant group of young people with a disturbing behaviour problem that is difficult to manage, troubling to parents and teacher alike, and that places them at risk for future problems. The statistics about the prevalence of ODD vary quite a bit, from a low of five percent to a high of sixteen percent of children under the age of eighteen. The condition seems to occur more in boys than girls and the ratio is dominated by boys until age eighteen.]]></description>
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		<title>The Application of Cognitive and Personality Theories For NPOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term not-for-profit organization (NPOs) is an umbrella term which implies that all organizations whose main organizational objectives are not to be profitable. NPOs main organizational objectives will thus be that to improve the general welfare of mankind. The bulk of NPOs are that of charities and counseling organizations.

The two essential components that will enable the NPO to achieve their objectives will be the organizational culture and volunteers.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Psychology is Important in Daily Life &#8211; Steps, Tips and Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word psychology is derived from the Greek word psyche which means 'soul' or 'mind' and logia meaning "Study of". Psychology is applied in studying the human mind and behavior. Research in psychology is used to understand and explain thought, emotion, and behavior.

Psychology is a vast field which covers all aspects of the human knowledge - from the functions of the brain to the surroundings in which humans and animals develop; from child growth to aging.]]></description>
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		<title>HSP &#8211; What a Therapist Needs to Know About High Sensitivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High Sensitivity (HS) and Highly Sensitive People (HSP) are concepts elaborated by Dr. Elaine Aron beginning with her original publication in 1997 and popularized in her book "The Highly Sensitive person: How to thrive when the world overwhelms you (1996). Dr.]]></description>
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		<title>Teens and ADHD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hidden problem of a significant number of teenagers is ADHD. This condition, known to occur in about 5-7% of the population makes it difficult to pay attention and concentrate. Equally, in the teenage years it plays havoc with planning ability.]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Power and the Realm of Consciousness &#8211; The Learning Process of the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to understand what mind power means and what the realm of consciousness is, we have to understand how the learning process of the brain works.

The biologist and behaviorist Konrand Lorenz, in his book "Behind the Mirror" describes in detail the learning process of the animal and human brain, beginning from the amoeba, up to the giant mammals.

Lorenz explains to us that animal behavior is programmed depending on chains. Even human behavior is programmed the same way.

The behavioral program is first of all indispensable for the safety of all animals on Earth, where too many dangers and natural enemies are threatening them. They wouldn't have the time to learn how to defend themselves if this behavior was not inherited, and already prepared in their cognitive mechanism.

The cognitive mechanism is the mechanism through which the brain can recognize something, and also learn something from a certain experience.

For example an orangutan is able to learn to climb a small bench in order to reach a bunch of bananas that are hanging near the roof, when it is left alone in a room, when it sees the bananas up there and then it sees the bench.

Of course, it will take time to discover the solution, but it will find it in the end, and get the bananas.

Lorenz observed that the human brain follows many behavioral programs, like all animals, concluding that the human being in fact has no freedom of choice.]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams and Psychotherapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should we bother with dreams?Aren't dreams just nonsense...just neurons randomly firing? 

 Evolution has selected for dreaming. Sleep researchers tell us that all humans and many animals dream several times every night. Dream sleep is so important that experimental subjects prevented from experiencing REM sleep, the part the sleep in which dreams occur, begin to hallucinate after just a couple of nights of deprivation.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology in Simple Terms &#8211; Use it to Get What You Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever stopped to wonder why psychologists, doctors, and others with a Phd use big words? Are they trying to confuse the rest of us?

I don't really think they use it all the time to confuse the rest of us mere mortals, okay not all the time anyway. You and I both know that some use this little bit of skill as a soap box to show the rest of us just how much they really know.

Have you ever wondered why there are people who are taken by 'rip off artists'? Well there are a couple of reasons, one is that these individuals are highly trained and or have a certain adaptability towards learning these tips and tricks. Another would be that we don't always know what they are looking for.

So to get what you want let's look closely at some of these and see exactly what they are using or what they know that we don't.

Cognitive Dissonance, okay let's break this down, when you are encountering someone that you want to know you start off with simple questions to get to know someone.]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Psychological Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding Psychological Assessments and Academic Testing

Educational psychological assessment is a formal procedure undertaken individually between a psychologist and a child (or any person). After building up rapport and making the child comfortable, the psychologist will administer a test to the child. There are many tests that can be administered so I will just introduce and explain the most commonly used tests.]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Psychology and Counselling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Positive Psychology is an ever growing branch of psychology and since its ethos is about getting the most out of life, I believe it can be readily used in counselling.

For many years psychology has focused on looking at problems and seeing if anything can be done about them. As a result so much focus seems to have been on what's wrong rather than what's right with people. Somehow people have become victims of their genes and environment and the best they can hope for is to learn how to tread water.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy &#8211; Can it Help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - often shortened to CBT, is a directive form of counselling and psychological therapy that focuses on understanding how our thoughts affect our behaviour.  It is based on the belief that feelings result from our thoughts and if dysfunctional or negative, result in conditions like anxiety, depression and related self-destructive action behaviour.

We all experience times when we are worry about something and go over and over it in our minds.  We know how this makes us feel emotionally and in our bodies.  The negativity spreads.  When these associations are so strong or a person's behaviour is destructive, self-deprecating or simply undermining us having a great life because we feel negative all the time, CBT can help.  If this is what is happening to you, CBT can help you identify your typical thought patterns, challenge them and help you develop new connections.  Thus, new thoughts can be established.  For example, You can be helped to look for solutions rather than saying 'I have no choice' or 'This always happens to me'.  New thoughts can be encouraged such as 'What do I need to do now to change this?'  'How can I look at this differently?'  Asking more positive, solution-focused questions results in a greater sense of emotional wellbeing.  Over time, this will become a more natural way of thinking, resulting in more positive feelings and subsequent actions which serve you more effectively.

Many psychodynamic psychotherapists balk at CBT, believing it to be too technique-driven with scant attention paid to the lived experience of individuals. Constant re-framing of an individual's thought patterns might be considered by more phenomenologically-oriented therapists to ignore the value of the inter-subjective interaction between psychotherapist and client. The focus on 'doing something to' the client' through re-framing of thoughts and intentions, rather than 'being something with' the client, is seen as limiting in helping clients understand their worldview.]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemic Gap, Psychology, and the Scientific Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Clinical Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the "epistemic gap" amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

Nagel took the example of a bat because bats are so fascinatingly different than humans; they hang upside down most of the time, use echolocation, they are nocturnal, and most eat nothing but insects. Could a human ever convincingly claim that he knew what it was like to be a bat? Nagel didn't believe this was possible - I agree.

Can the same be true amongst humans? Can another human fully understand the mind of another, or, does one have to be in the first-person to understand the mind more clearly?

Philosopher Frank Jackson wrote a paper in 1982 titled "Epiphenomenal Qualia" where he introduced the famous thought experiment known as Mary's room.]]></description>
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		<title>Pass The EPPP (Examination For Professional Practice in Psychology)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To pass the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology (EPPP) you need help, a strategy. You can not just walk in to an examination center, sit down, and pass this examination without preparing. 

How Important is the EPPP?

The EPPP is one of the most important tests a psychologist will ever sit for. 

No matter how well you did in your graduate school classes. No matter how great you did on comprehensive examinations.]]></description>
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		<title>Boundaries of Self &#8211; Representational Self and the Neurological Representation of an Individual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Logic dictates that entity A cannot be entity B, and when we come to valuate that do the representations we have from ourselves truly represent ourselves, in relativity with this simple logic, the answer must be "No". The entity we are perceiving in our consciousness is combined of units of information, and is a virtual entity, similarly with our friends and foes we perceive in our consciousness even when they are not around. And these representations lack the neurological detail, everything that we know as the physical basis of our existence, every known form of self-awareness, and are immaterial in the environment.]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemic Gap, Psychology, and the Scientific Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the "epistemic gap" amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

Nagel took the example of a bat because bats are so fascinatingly different than humans; they hang upside down most of the time, use echolocation, they are nocturnal, and most eat nothing but insects. Could a human ever convincingly claim that he knew what it was like to be a bat? Nagel didn't believe this was possible - I agree.

Can the same be true amongst humans? Can another human fully understand the mind of another, or, does one have to be in the first-person to understand the mind more clearly?

Philosopher Frank Jackson wrote a paper in 1982 titled "Epiphenomenal Qualia" where he introduced the famous thought experiment known as Mary's room.]]></description>
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		<title>Hypothalamus &#8211; Role in Motivation and Behaviour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Behaviour is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all." Ian Tattersall (from Becoming Human.Evolution and Human Uniqueness, 1998)

The question of why we are motivated to certain behaviours is perhaps one of the most fundamental in Psychology. Since Pavlov described conditioning in dogs in his famous 1927 paper, scientists have pondered the origins of motivations that drive us to action. For most of the early twentieth century, behaviourists like Watson &#038; Skinner sought to explain behaviour in terms of external physical stimuli, suggesting that learned responses, hedonic reward and reinforcement were motives to elicit a particular behaviour.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Skills Determine Learning Ability</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research has shown that cognitive skills are a determining factor of an individual's learning ability. Cognitive skills are mental skills that are used in the process of acquiring knowledge; according to Oxfordlearning.com the skills that "separate the good learners from the so-so learners." In essence, when cognitive skills are strong, learning is fast and easy. When cognitive skills are weak, learning becomes a struggle.

Many children become frustrated and find schoolwork difficult because they do not have the cognitive skills required to process information properly.]]></description>
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