Personality Articles

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• The Solution: Conquer Your Fear, Control Your Future
  Disclosure: I really wanted to hate the new book, The Solution: Conquer Your Fear, Control Your Future by motivational speaker and bestselling author Lucinda Bassett because it sounded a tad too simplistic, Tony Robbins-ish ...
• 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
  Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She ...
• Self-Esteem Struggles and Strategies That Can Help
  Many people look in the mirror and see someone they don’t like very much. They see ...
• Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
  Neuroscientist Simon LeVay made headlines with his pioneering work comparing the brain structures of gay and straight men.  His 1991 article in Science led the way for numerous studies of sexual orientation as it relates ...
• The Gifts of Imperfection
  At a recent talk at TEDxHouston, Brené Brown, author of The Gifts of Imperfection, described herself as a researcher storyteller. This couldn’t be more accurate. It’s this mix of science and story that make ...
• Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III)
  Based on Theodore Millon, Ph.D., D.Sc.’s Evolutionary Theory of personality and psychopathology, the brief Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) instrument provides a measure of 24 personality disorders and clinical syndromes for adults undergoing psychological or ...
• The Roots of Loneliness
  “I hardly have any friends. I’m spending my days in my room and on the computer. I know ...
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
  The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a psychological test that assesses personality traits and psychopathology. It is primarily intended to test people who are ...
• I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
  While the public is familiar with more mainstream psychological diagnoses such as depression or schizophrenia, the only knowledge most individuals have of borderline personality disorder (BPD) results from having watched Winona Ryder in the Oscar-nominated ...
• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
  Valerie Porr, M.A. understands intimately the ramifications of a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It was this experience and curiosity that led her to attend a lecture by Marsha Linehan, PhD, creator ...
• Childhood Bad Behavior Linked to Adult Chronic Pain
  Researchers have found a significant link between childhood behavioral problems and chronic pain in adulthood. Dr. Dong Pang of Aberdeen University, ...
• Being Good vs. Being Codependent
  Is the way that you are ‘being good’ to your loved ones actually caring and good? Or are you involved in codependent ...
• Why Intelligent People Do Foolish Things
  Society is replete with examples of intelligent people doing foolish things. This seems puzzling considering that intelligent people (as indicated by intelligence tests ...
• End Procrastination Now! Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach
  Ever put off an activity 'til another day — which turns into a few months? Wished you would’ve started earlier on a project only to procrastinate the next time around? Missed a deadline altogether because ...
• Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover
  We all have to interact with people we don’t get along with at some point in our lives.  Sometimes, those people are so emotionally intense, anxious, and self-absorbed that the only word that accurately describes ...
• The Buddha & The Borderline
  The Buddha & The Borderline, by writer, artist and advocate Kiera Van Gelder, exposes a regularly hushed-up topic: borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is shrouded in stigma. There’s little information about the disorder and, while ...
• Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
  Receiving a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) may seem devastating. There’s a lot of confusion about what BPD really means and ...
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
  From a patient’s point of view, the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be an exceptionally traumatic and judgmental one.  So it is a great pleasure to be able to find a ...
• Hide and Seek: Reclaiming Childhood’s Lost Potential
  “Do I need for some reason to __________________?” This is the underlying question of Hide and Seek: Reclaiming Childhood’s Lost Potential. Geared toward those who seek to change the way they move through life, Oliker reframes ...
• The Skinny on The Art of Persuasion: How to Move Minds
  Jim Randel’s The Skinny on Persuasion: How to Move Minds was, in my opinion, the best of the Skinny series thus far. Unlike the previous books that read a bit like handbooks (entertaining nonetheless, ...
• A Brief History of Lies: The Most Brilliant Book Ever Written
  A Brief History of Lies, The Most Brilliant Book Ever Written takes both a serious and humorous look at lying; the good, bad, and the ugly.  It shockingly reveals research that shows 1 in 5 ...
• The Eight Habits of Lousy Listeners
  Most people know that one of the keys to success in relationships is good listening. Experts tell us to use “active” ...
• Who Are You? What Do You Want? Four Questions That Will Change Your Life
  Can a 176-page book and four questions provide enough information and insight to change your life? That’s a good question. It is something authors Mick Ukleja, PhD and Robert L. Lorber, PhD attempt to do ...
• Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You To Know about Shock Treatment
  Linda Andre’s Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You To Know about Shock Treatment is a book that is impossible to ignore. The book was written by a shock treatment victim who lost ...