"Rogers believed that a therapist should be less a problem-solver, and more a sort of skilled midwife, drawing out solutions that already existed in the client. All people possess a deep urge to 'self-actualise', he believed, and it is the therapist's job to nurture this urge. They were there to 'release and strengthen the individual, rather than to intervene in his life'. Key to achieving this goal was careful, focused, 'active' listening."
Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that “the structure of unconscious is like a language”. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for adopting mathematical concepts in his psychoanalytic framework and for advocating therapy sessions of varying length, he is widely misunderstood and often unfairly dismissed as impenetrable. In this clear, wide-ranging primer, Lionel Bailly demonstrates how Lacan’s ideas are still vitally relevant to contemporary issues of mental health treatment. Defending Lacan from his numerous detractors, past and present, Bailly guides the reader through Lacan’s canon, from “l'objet petit a” to “The Mirror Stage” and beyond. Including coverage of developments in Lacanian …
Matt Might's summary of evidence regarding behaviour and the cycle of change.
What’s interesting is how long it took for researchers to realize the flaw in Dunning and Kruger’s analysis. Dunning and Kruger published their results in 1999. But it took until 2016 for the mistake to be fully understood. To my knowledge, Edward Nuhfer and colleagues were the first to exhaustively debunk the Dunning-Kruger effect. (See their joint papers in 2016 and 2017.) In 2020, Gilles Gignac and Marcin Zajenkowski published a similar critique.
Once you read these critiques, it becomes painfully obvious that the Dunning-Kruger effect is a statistical artifact. But to date, very few people know this fact. Collectively, the three critique papers have about 90 times fewer citations than the original Dunning-Kruger article.5 So it appears that most scientists still think that the …
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Website with links to articles, research and other resources in psychology.
Race plays an important role in how people think, develop, and behave. In the current article, we queried more than 26,000 empirical articles published between 1974 and 2018 in top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals to document how often psychological research acknowledges this reality and to examine whether people who edit, write, and participate in the research are systematically connected. We note several findings. First, across the past five decades, psychological publications that highlight race have been rare, and although they have increased in developmental and social psychology, they have remained virtually nonexistent in cognitive psychology. Second, most publications have been edited by White editors, under which there have been significantly fewer publications that highlight race. Third, many of the publications that highlight race have been …
References recommended for students interested in training in the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Extraordinary beliefs don’t arise in a vacuum. They take root in minds confronted by unusual and traumatic experiences
people systematically default to searching for additive transformations, and consequently overlook subtractive transformations
Templates to help you say no in any situation.
- Have you become cynical or critical at work?
- Do you drag yourself to work and have trouble getting started?
- Have you become irritable or impatient with co-workers, customers or clients?
- Do you lack the energy to be consistently productive?
- Do you find it hard to concentrate?
- Do you lack satisfaction from your achievements?
- Do you feel disillusioned about your job?
- Are you using food, drugs or alcohol to feel better or to simply not feel?
- Have your sleep habits changed?
- Are you troubled by unexplained headaches, stomach or bowel problems, or other physical complaints?
An amazing resource for all types of visual illusions.
2000 videos, with an average length of 45 minutes per video, totaling some 700gbs.
Everything is organized by Discipline->Subfield->individual-> course or lecture series. It's mostly non-introductory content.
The psychology section is far and away the most substantive of the three fields, with an emphasis on Psychodynamics, Neuropsychoanalysis, Rogerian/person-centered approaches, and Social Psychology.
The Neuroscience section has a modest amount of anatomy, and leans towards perception, affective neuroscience, and other such frivolity.
The philosophy section is a basic overview with a slight bent towards cognition, and is perfect for winning internet arguments (or whatever it is that philosophy is supposed to be for)
A BBC investigation has uncovered there are no laws against anyone operating as a therapist, psychotherapist or a counsellor in the UK.
"“When someone finally recognises that procrastination isn’t a time management problem but is instead an emotion regulation problem, then they are ready to embrace my favourite tip,” says Pychyl.
First neuro psychiatry ain shams
Recording of ASU Psychology Lectures for Masters Program
Good article on mindfulness - raises & address questions I have. Managing mental health cannot be 'one size fits al…