Psychologists Category
Decisions Making!
Posted on April 19, 2021 Leave a Comment
When we make decisions, we’re not always in charge. We can be too impulsive or too deliberate for our own good; one moment we hotheadedly let our emotions get the better of us, and the next we’re paralyzed by uncertainty. Then we’ll pull a brilliant decision out of thin air—and wonder how we did it. […]
A Bout of Delusional Jealousy
Posted on February 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
In his 1921 article focusing on the psychoanalytic examination of the psychic mechanisms of jealousy, Freud distinguishes between three “layers or grades of jealousy [that] may be described as(1) competitive or normal, (2) projected, and (3) delusional jealousy.” [39][39]Freud, S. (1922). Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy,… In delusional jealousy, the subject and his object are of the […]
A Case of Paranoia in a Young Woman Patient
Posted on February 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
In 1915, Freud reports another observation of the onset of psychosis. Embarrassed by one of his clients’ complaints about the persecution she has suffered at the hands of a former lover, a lawyer initiates a meeting with Freud, to whom the young woman tells her story. After she had been courted for a certain period […]
Parental Psychological Control
Posted on July 31, 2020 Leave a Comment
Parenting aggression can take on different forms, such as physical aggression, verbal aggression, and psychological aggression (Straus, Hamby, Finkelhor, Moore, & Runyan, 1998), and one key form of psychological aggression which is understudied is psychological control. Parental psychological control refers to parental behaviors that are intrusive and manipulative, undermining child autonomy, and characterized by guilt […]
I DON’T NEED A THERAPIST
Posted on July 6, 2020 1 Comment
Are you the adult survivor of emotional child abuse? The effects of childhood abuse on adults are… Post-traumatic stress disorder Cognitive distortions (e.g., “highly fearful and overestimate danger and adversity in your current environment”) Emotional distress (e.g., depression, anxiety, and anger) Anxiety, disorders, panic disorders, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive order Chronic irritability, rage, and difficulties expressing anger constructively […]
Self psychology
Posted on April 15, 2020 1 Comment
Not to be confused with Psychology of self. Empathy Kohut maintained that parents’ failures to empathize with their children and the responses of their children to these failures were ‘at the root of almost all psychopathology’.[5] For Kohut, the loss of the other and the other’s self-object (“selfobject”) function (see below) leaves the individual apathetic, lethargic, empty […]
To all Authors, Psychologists, Parental Alienation Syndrome experts:
Posted on August 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
Some moms & dads have no contact with our kids because of the psychological pain/punishment & rewards they receive & that results under the control of the alienating parent. Therefore, our kids desperately need materials to be made available to school libraries, online, etc. Even in the form of a brochure, novel, or play — youth deserve to understand […]
