Psychology Articles

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• 12 More Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
  When you’re an entrepreneur, who inevitably wears many hats, managing your time can get tricky—especially when it’s ...
• You Should Be So Lucky: Dealing with Tragedy
  Katy was diagnosed with a meningioma, a rare operable brain tumor occurring in about 7 in 100,000 people. The ...
• How Couples Can Help Each Other De-stress and Improve Their Relationship
  “Stress impacts our love relationships more than we are aware of or acknowledge,” according to Judy ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Emotionally Focused Therapy: Bolstering Couples’ Emotional Bonds
  Western culture views independence as a virtue. We’ve been taught that a truly strong person doesn’t need anybody to survive ...
• What To Do About Attention-Seeking Kids
  The preschooler I observed in the grocery store yesterday was doing everything she could to get her mom’s attention. She whined. ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• Into Your Dreams
  Into Your Dreams: Deciphering Your Unique Dream Symbology to Transform Your Waking Life, by Janece O. Hudson, Ed.D. is a comprehensive guide to unraveling the mystery of those nocturnal dialogues we call dreams. Unlike most dream ...
• 5 Ideas for Boosting Your Energy When Depression Strikes
  Depression is as much a somatic (physical) disorder as it is a psychological one. Energy loss is a ...
• Therapists Spill: Why I Love Being a Clinician
  Being a therapist is hard work. It requires extra schooling, usually involves long hours and a plethora of paperwork ...
• Social Anxiety Overview
  People with social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, suffer from an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations -- specifically the ...
• A Toolkit for School Success: 15 Study Tips for Students with ADHD
  Because of the nature of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), students with the disorder ...
• 9 Myths and Facts About Therapy
  Unfortunately, therapy still remains a shrouded subject, and many myths persist. The problem? These misunderstandings can prevent people from seeking ...
• Learning from Resilient Kids
  In 1955, researchers Emmy Werner (University of California, Davis) and Ruth Smith (licensed psychologist, Kauai) began a longitudinal study that followed all of ...
• A Counselor’s Clients Can Make the Best Teachers
  From a reasonably young age, I knew exactly what I wanted to be -- a professional helper. I ...
• Change Your Thinking To Change Feelings of Hopelessness
  How many people have you met or heard of who have experienced a loss in their life? As human ...
• Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Recovery from Eating Disorders
  Aimee Liu writes with a gentleness and an understanding that only someone who has been through the painful process of recovery can truly possess: Her 1979 memoir, Solitaire, was the first discussion of anorexia nervosa ...
• From Suicidal To Being in Awe of Life
  I’m 28 years old and for the last four years I haven’t had one suicidal thought or intention because ...
• The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals
  Kelly Lambert, PhD is undoubtedly in the right field. She has a passion for the laboratory and a knack for applying its lessons to daily life. The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life ...
• 7 Tips on Developing and Maintaining a Successful Intimate Relationship
  You probably wish to develop and maintain a successful intimate relationship. Unfortunately you, like many others, might ...
• Predicting Happiness and Unhappiness: A Skill We Never Master
  Why do we have such a preoccupation with the future and the powerful range of feelings that ...
• Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery: My Journey through Mental Illness
  Barbara Altman, a St. Louis, Mo., native, earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Fontbonne University and taught music therapy at St. Louis Institute of Music.  She now teaches piano and guitar in her home ...
• Music Therapy May Aid Brain-Damaged Patients
  A review of the evidence to date suggests that music therapy can help patients recover their movements after experiencing brain damage. ...
• Debunking 6 Myths About Asperger Syndrome
  The discovery of Asperger Syndrome (AS) dates back to 1944. Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger described the syndrome when he was ...
• 12 Ways Successful Bloggers, Entrepreneurs Stay Productive
  Full-time bloggers and entrepreneurs have to juggle a wide range of responsibilities. At Psych Central, we wanted to know ...