Passion: Fire in Your Soul

Embrace your real passion. It will point to your life's work and your greatest happiness.

Teachers: Are You Still Using Yesterday's Teacher Training to Manage Today's Difficult Student

K-12 Teachers: Your training prepared you to work with Beaver Cleaver and Beavis and Butthead just walked in your classroom. Yesterday's training has left you utterly unprepared for the much more serious emotional, social and behaviorial problems contemporary youth present. Here is a look at how updated training could help.

Hats Off to Psychology Today !

Psychology Today told me I had OCD. OCD is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This is an invented disease that many people now seem to have resulting in increased therapy revenues. Fortunately my case was mild. I cured myself.

Fringe Group Hate Towards Social Norms

What happens when a small segment of our society is outcast and feel alienated? Well, perhaps you have found yourself in such a group previously? Odd man out or involved in an activity, which was different from the norm?

Learning in Writing by Changing Perspectives

One way to learn through writing use to change perspectives. They say that when you teach, often the teacher gets as much out of it as the students. This is because when you were the student you are learning from the student's perspective; ah but when it is your turn to teach it, well that is a whole new ball game indeed.

The Power of Words

Words have the ability to heal or tear someone to shreds. Use them with caution.

Jungian Dream Interpretation - How To Make Sense Of Your Dreams

Why do we dream? What are your dreams trying to tell you? More about a Jungian approach to dreams.

Understanding The Psychopath: Separating Fact From Fiction

Mention the word psychopath and I think it's fair to say that most people think of serial killers both real and fictional. As with criminal profiling, this is a topic area within forensic psychology where it is often difficult to separate fact from fiction. The aim of this article, therefore, is to do just that.

Psychology

For many centuries, the study of human thought and emotion was not considered a very fruitful pursuit. Not that it hasn’t fascinated many people down the ages – it has. But the most interesting insights into human psychology came not from scientists but from poets and writers. In that respect, it is possible to find interesting observations and illustrations in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Milton.

Forensic Psychology

Not to be confused with the discipline of forensic science (the study of crime scenes, evidence, etc.) with which it does share a common platform, forensic psychology is one of the main bulwarks of criminal justice today. Basically, it finds application in the establishment of competency (selection of juries, witnesses, etc.) and the formulation of workable policies in justice administration.

Child Psychology

Psychology is by no means only the study of adult minds and emotions. In an increasingly complex and stress-oriented world, children are just as affected by the abnormalities of daily life as adults are. The sad story of modern society speaks of child abuse, incest, family discord, drug and alcohol abuse, and other major problems.

Academic Referencing: An Essential Guide For Students

Many students underestimate the importance of referencing but from an academic perspective, referencing is vitally important. The cornerstone of any academic writing be it a term paper, essay, research project or dissertation is the dissemination of ideas. References, i.e., source material based on the views, opinions and research findings of others provide the conceptual framework necessary to engage in analytical debate. In addition to highlighting the importance of referencing, this article also highlights the most common referencing mistakes and where students can access the best free referencing resources.

Sinister Plots of International Terrorist Cells and Multi-Level Marketing

As soon you go to meeting you find out all the great reasons why someone needs to do their own business...

Genetically Smarter Humans Should Not Have to Endure Incompetent Masses

There are all obviously humans amongst us who are much smarter than the average in the population and as we measure IQ tests we see that many of the smartest people are off the charges on the IQ tests. Yet in our society there are many people who are between 80 and 95 IQ and that is barely passable and you have to wonder how anyone can argue that some humans or genetically smarter than others.