Abnormal PsychologyThomas F. Oltmanns, Robert E. Emery, 2014 Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop?Sheff, Warren, Ketcham et al., 2007 Anger Management For Dummies, 2nd EditionCharles H. Elliott, 2015 Anxiety and Depression Association of Americahttps://adaa.org/ Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad OnesJames Clear,Continue Reading
Founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality development, which argued that personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind: the Id, the Ego, and the Superego. During his life, beginning in 1852, he wrote more than 320 influential books, articles,Continue Reading
Any attempt to define psychological abnormality often raises as many questions as those that remain unanswered. Over time, it is ultimately society who defines abnormality and then judges particular cases. Clinical theorist Thomas Szasz believes “the whole concept of mental illness to be invalid, a myth of sorts.” (Szasz, 2012,Continue Reading
Have you ever wondered why there is an ever-increasing number of depressed people on our planet? Study after study shows this is the case. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that nearly six percent of men and nearly ten percent of women worldwide suffer from depression sometime during the year.Continue Reading
Psychology teaches that we are born with a life instinct which drives us toward growth and creation, along with the death instinct, which drives us toward destruction and disintegration. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), said that to avoid being destroyed by our own death instinct, we employ our Narcissistic or, self-regarding lifeContinue Reading
The ancient Greeks spoke of and were acquainted with the violence of emotional excess, which they called “madness” or “frenzy.” However, it wasn’t until the work of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) that we gained an insight into the “passions” and the origin of emotional disorders, as well as the general theoryContinue Reading
Emotions have been described and defined throughout history. Various passions were analyzed within certain dialogues of Plato and in Aristotle’s “Rhetoric,” as well as in Greek discussions of virtue and vice. All through the ages man has been trying to analyze and understand emotions. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) recommended “The PoetsContinue Reading
The word habit has been used since ancient times, and its root is derived from the verb “to have.” Artistotle considered this meaning in the sense that a man may be said “to have a coat or tunic” or to have “a piece of knowledge or a virtue.” So habitsContinue Reading
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs lists the qualities he observed in successful people who aimed high but kept their feet on the ground. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) created a highly structured plan to explain his path of human motivation that people need to follow as they move to self-actualization. The plan isContinue Reading
Americans are four times more likely to suffer from Generalized Anxiety than Mexicans living south of the border, according to a 2002 World Health Organization (WHO) study. Other studies have found that Mexicans recover from anxiety attacks twice as quickly as Americans. However, Mexicans who migrate to the United StatesContinue Reading