Panic Attacks: Effective Ways to Cope

Overwhelmed by her experience, she has stayed away from malls and has avoided being in a crowd of people.

Treatment Modalities and Therapies

Narcissism constitutes the entire personality. It is all-pervasive. Being a narcissist is akin to being an alcoholic but much more so. Alcoholism is an impulsive behaviour. Narcissists exhibit dozens...

Why Other Children are Rejecting Your Child

Introduction Developing healthy peer relationships is critical for the normal development of a child. Peer relationships have been found to be an important predictor of positive adult adjustment an...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Nightmare After The Ordeal

Each time she watches TV shows that remind her of the incident, she gets scared, overwhelmed, and becomes agitated.

Get Out of Jail Free: Stop Being Defensive

When Marcus and Sally first met they immediately felt like kindred spirits. Marcus was generally warm and open. But as their relationship continued, Sally noticed that sometimes when he was upset he ...

The Mind, Information, and Attitude

The Mind creates our attitude to life from the information that is flowing past us almost all the time. How can we be aware of what our mind is absorbing and how can we be sure that it is empowering to us. This article discusses some of the ways that our mind, both conscious and subconscious, processes and uses that information, how to evaluate the value of that information, and how to increase the amount of empowering information being received.

Artificial Intelligence - What Have We Learned Through Natural Ignorance?

During the late ྌs and early ྖs, I had the opportunity to work with expert systems in real-time production environments. I found artificial intelligence, or AI, to be thoroughly intriguing. I e...

Four Cognitive Skills for Successful Learning

Concentration, perception, memory, and logical thinking are prerequisite cognitive skills to successful learning.

Morality As A Mental State

INTRODUCTION Moral values, rules, principles, and judgements are often thought of as beliefs or as true beliefs. Those who hold them to be true beliefs also annex to them a warrant or a justificati...

What's the Problem: Introducing Solution Focus Pt 1

Solution Focus is the brain child of Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer. This positive approach to problem resolution is rooted in the tradition of Milton Erickson’s brief therapy. It assumes that small modifications in the individual’s cognitive and behavioral expressions can lead to significant life changes.

Solution Focus Process: Solution Talk vs. Problem Talk Pt 2

Solution Focus does not try to overcome resistance to change, but rather, find where the change is already occurring in the system and accentuating it.

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is sometimes referred to as the world's first serial killer. This is not true. He was, however, the first serial killer to strike in a major metropolis and be reported on in the international press. So he was the world's first media murderer. This is his story.

The Special Secret of Intuition

New insights reveal how intuition controls the mind, through a contextual elimination algorithm...

Split Personality - A Myth or a Reality?

In this world today, there are a lot of unbelievable diseases. One of them is the disease of human's mind, and a split personality is counted as one of the disease. Not many of people around the world believe if this disease really exists or not, or they rather think that the person is acting. I was on my way from Bangalore to Mumbai and on the way, as I was interacting with one person and suddenly we got this topic, “Split Personalities” and started discussing about it. When I was in collage, I had one very good friend, by name Mr. T. Kiran Kumar. The uniqueness of our relation was our compatibility and depth of understanding. If we are with kids, or classmates or elderly people or uneducated people or females or highly intellectuals, how we will behave, was purely on the type of circle or group we were into. Believe me, our attitude, approach, behavior, and the way to react to a situation was based on the type of group we were into. Does that mean that we were having split personalities? If that is the case then all of us are having split personalities. We behave differently with our family members, with our friends, our spouse, and unknown people, right? Lets see. Let us understand the term “Split Personality”.