Psychology Articles

Psychology | By Maurice Castle @ Tuesday, 10th March 2009

If you've ever mourned a deep loss or suffered from depression, you understand how overwhelming it can be. People of all ages, even children, can be depressed. Fortunately, there are ways to overcome your condition! Here are the top five strategies to overcome your depression and regain your life: 1. Talk about it. If you find yourself unable to concentrate on anything, [more...]

Psychology | By Maurice Castle @ Monday, 9th March 2009

Workplace conflicts do more than cause stress among the people in conflict; that stress can spill into other relationships at work and affect the atmosphere of the whole office. It's important that all employees learn how to resolve a disagreement with a colleague. When you encounter disagreements, try these tips to help resolve conflicts and bring peace back to your workplace: 1. [more...]

Psychology | By Kate Rieger @ Thursday, 5th March 2009

You are wondering if a child you care about is exhibiting ADHD child symptoms. A son or daughter, niece or nephew; student or neighbor, started acting out in class, or has become withdrawn and spacey. Lots of times when people think of Attention Deficit, they picture an out-of-control kid in constant motion, bouncing off the aisles in the grocery store [more...]

Psychology | By Christine OKelly @ Tuesday, 3rd March 2009

Social scientists, psychologists, and anthropologists have suspected for a long time that developing creativity in a child provides secondary benefits. Although a drawing or painting created by an adolescent usually never makes a showing further than the family refrigerator, the value of this artwork is many times underestimated. The process of creating artwork plays a role in other areas of [more...]

Psychology | By Kathryn Seifert @ Monday, 2nd March 2009

The headlines read: Eight Year-Old Kills Father and a Boarder. Was this tragedy preventable? If it is proven that the known causes of youth violence were there, it was entirely preventable. This is worse than a tragedy and it must be fixed. Experts agree that most youth who become violent share certain elements in their histories. These include a history of [more...]

Psychology | By Forbes Blair @ Tuesday, 24th February 2009

When you seek private hypnotherapy services, you want to benefit as much as possible. One strong way to contribute to your success is your mental approach. Your hypnotherapist is the trained guide who uses certain tools to help your subconscious retrain your habits. But he (or she) cannot help you without your participation and willpower. So decide beforehand to have a [more...]

Psychology | By Christine OKelly @ Monday, 23rd February 2009

Some people may laugh at the topic of dental fear, but being afraid of dentists can be a real problem. This fear can even become so severe it leads to much more than poor health. Luckily, you have several options if you have a fear of the dentist, depending on what scares you and the severity of your fear. This [more...]

Psychology | By Trevor Johnson @ Tuesday, 10th February 2009

Telepathy is the process by which one person can read another person's thoughts. They can be any two people but the power to be telepathic is not inborn; you can also develop it with a little practice. We can also say that telepathy means transmission of thoughts between two persons . It is a fun thing when you think about it [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Monday, 9th February 2009

There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was not invented till 1850. In it was wrapped up the "mysteries of Isis" in Egypt thousands of years ago, and probably it was one of the weapons, if not the chief instrument of operation, of the magi mentioned in the Bible and of the "wise [more...]

Psychology | By John Trauth @ Sunday, 1st February 2009

Current market conditions have forced many people to re-think their retirement plans. Those already retired are worrying about sustaining their current standard of living in face of their reduced resources. Those nearing retirement worry about their future and consider postponing their retirement date, reluctantly accepting that they will have to work more years than they had previously anticipated. [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Friday, 23rd January 2009

The concept that the subject is a helpless automaton stems from the weird movies where the "mad scientist" has hypnotized subjects into behaving like zombies. Naturally, there is usually a beautiful girl in the movie and she, too, has been hypnotized. Even though the audience is sophisticated enough to realize that this science-fiction drama is purely entertainment, the theme is [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Friday, 23rd January 2009

One of the objections that you hear to hypnosis is that it can be dangerous in the hands of those not trained in the psychodynamics of human behavior. Inasmuch as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists are the only ones who are thoroughly trained in the analysis of human behavior, this objection, if valid, could limit hypnosis to a comparative handful of [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Friday, 23rd January 2009

I once saw an individual about 12 times who wanted to learn self-hypnosis and had been unsuccessful in every approach. I asked him if he would volunteer as a subject for a class in techniques of hypnosis that I was teaching for nurses. He readily volunteered and showed up at the designated time. Much to my amazement as well as his [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Sunday, 18th January 2009

I should like to point out an interesting fact pertaining to Biblical healers. So long as the fame of the healer preceded his arrival in any country, he was able to heal the sick. However, where his fame as a healer was either unknown or discredited, he found no faith and subsequently no cure. The earliest reference to hypnosis is [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Wednesday, 14th January 2009

Everyone can be hypnotized. The time required for achieving hypnosis will vary from subject to subject. We will discuss some of the reasons for this in a subsequent chapter, but for our discussion at this time we need to understand this point. I have encountered numerous individuals who were extremely disappointed because they did not respond to hypnosis immediately or [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Wednesday, 14th January 2009

Dr. George Estabrooks, professor of psychology at Colgate University and author of the book, 'Hypnotism', made the following two statements in a paper called "The Future of Hypnosis" given as part of a program on "The Nature of Hypnosis" at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in 1959: "It would be well to sound a word of caution against [more...]

Psychology | By Daniel Benor @ Wednesday, 14th January 2009

I am repeatedly astounded by the ingenuity of the unconscious mind in its efforts to protect us from emotional pains - in myself and in people who come to me for help with emotional pain that is persistent or recurrent. Often, it appears at first that we are victims of a harsh or even cruel world. Looking a bit deeper, [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Tuesday, 13th January 2009

What about the often-quoted statement that "you might do some damage"? Let's explore this area. I assume that the reader is somewhat familiar with the work of Emile Cou or at least has heard of his famous autosuggestion formula of "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." During our time, thousands upon thousands of seemingly helpless and [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Tuesday, 13th January 2009

For many, the hypnotic state represents a period in which the conscious guard is dropped. They feel they may compulsively reveal the darker side of their nature, confess their hostility or relate information they would never voluntarily divulge to anyone. This is the real danger they see in hypnosis. To protect themselves from it, they attack it. It is much [more...]

Psychology | By John Hubert @ Tuesday, 13th January 2009

Learning how to hypnotize someone isn't that difficult, however a bit of theory of hypnosis should be understood. Hypnosis has been defined as a state of heightened suggestibility in which the subject is able to uncritically accept ideas for self-improvement and act on them appropriately. When a hypnotist hypnotizes his subject, it is known as hetero-hypnosis. When an individual puts himself [more...]