Some Dreams Save Lives: A Case Study of a Heart Attack

One of the surprising secrets of professional dream interpretation is how often dreams predict life challenges and prepare us to meet them. This dream foreshadowed JT's upcoming heart attack, without spelling it out, and it prepared her to survive it.

The Scientific Credibility of Forensic Psychology

As a forensic discipline, forensic psychology can be located within the broader discourse of forensic science. However, compared to other forensic specialisms e.g. forensic pathology, forensic odontology etc, forensic psychology is often seen as the poor relation. As with psychology in general, it is often perceived, particularly by those outside the discipline as soft or pseudo science. This article examines why this viewpoint prevails and what students studying the topic can do to address the issue.

One Dream Interprets Another to Predict the U.S. Mid-Term Election Results

Dreams come from wherever we do. They regularly predict the future and they link people together in the world of dreams. In the following case one dream even arrived to interpret another dream! And just in time to predict the outcome of yesterday's midterm U.S. elections (November 7, 2006).

Success and Safety in Online Dating

Dating has proven to be a good way to meet new friends, romances or even one's soulmate.

Assessing Future Risk of Youth Violence

It is essential that youth-serving agencies use the most up to date tools to assess the risk of future youth violence. In this way they can ensure that at risk youth receive needed services to prevent future violence.

Just Doing My Job

The makers and lovers of lies are sometimes the exact same people. At other times, co-dependents.

Latent Homosexuality: Paranoid Delusions Rage and Anxiety

Male homosexuality is more of a threat to men than female homosexuality is to women. It is widely agreed among psychotherapists that men who have an underlying fear of their homosexual tendencies often are vehemently abusive in their attacks against homosexuality. While those who do not feel threatened by any homosexual leanings within themselves have a greater understanding and more relaxed in their relationships with people of homosexual proclivities. It is further believed that transsexualists, those who change sex by surgical means, are so afraid of homosexuality that they rather give up their maleness forever than face their homosexual tendencies. Also, men often become sexually aroused by the display of female homosexuality even though they may find viewing any sexual activity between two men offensive. Women, on the other hand, usually exhibit little interest in witnessing an manifestations of either male or female homosexuality.

2007 Common Sense Psychology Thoughts

It is truly amazing the abundance of psychological profiling going on in America and academia. Even more amazing is the psychologists who tell us how to profile personalities and how to raise our children and explain to us how to love, conduct our relationships and raise our kids tend to have the most problematic children, druggie teens and dysfunctional families. So, who can you believe when it comes to psychology?

Depression, Holiday Blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Other Side of Merry Christmas

Are you a victim of the holiday blues? The glare and dazzle of Christmas lights and the rush of activity between Thanksgiving and New Year can mask the other side of the holiday - depression and loneliness. While depression is a common illnesses for many adults, Christmas blues can be experienced by many who have heightened and unrealistic expectations about holiday events.

What Are Psychotherapists Doing To Their Patients And Their Practice With Their Offices?

Psychotherapists beware! Your physical office may be doing a number on your patients and your bottom line.

Why Movie Directors Use Recurring Dreams

The worst part about nightmares is their tendency to repeat themselves. An isolated nightmare may not be cause for alarm, but recurrent nightmares with the same theme become quite troubling for most dreamers. The same is true with movie dream sequences. Directors use the emotional impact of recurring nightmares to ensure that characters deal with hidden fears and imminent dangers.

What is Asperger's and Where Does It Come From?

Are there alternatives to medically diagnosing people with Asperger's? Personality theorist, Steven Paglierani, thinks so. In this article, he explores how more spiritually minded diagnoses could improve how we offer help to people with Asperger's.

Dream Groups by Telephone May Be Better Than Meeting In Person

We human beings are visually dominant creatures. We draw many conclusions based on visual cues alone. Our eyes tell a very different story about the world around us than the story that is told by our ears. A telephone group tends to be more focused on the specific content of the dreams and on the emotional tone of the members, and seems to be less biased and more growth-focused than when people are in the same room.

An Insight into Psychological Tests and Pre-Screening

Did you know that one of the reasons for development of psychological screening techniques was to test whether students are lying? Check out how these technique are now applied for employee screening!