People who suffer from psychotic depression often start seeing, or hearing hallucinations that can leave them frightened for their lives. Apparently, many patients who suffer severe episodes of psychotic depression can become suicidal. More specifically, people with this type of depression will display increased anger and/or frustration, hear things and/or see things that are not actually there, have a feeling of hopelessness, and/or think about or attempt suicide. As a result of some...

Many college students, when they think of science, think of physics, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy and other similar fields of study. Psychology, which isthe study of the human psyche and of behavior, rarely comes to mind. But psychology is inherently scientific, which is why it is classified as a behavior science.

Like other scientists, psychologists hold a "scientific attitude," meaning that every aspect of research is critically and skeptically examined, and...

Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis developed the PAC model, the three ego states, Parent, Adult and Child. These are a mixture of behaviours, thoughts and feelings.

The Parent ego state, or exteropsyche - is a state in which people think and behave like their own parental figures did in their childhood. When in the Parent ego state people will often tell you "You are not allowed to do that", or "This is not good!". The Parent ego state can be...

If you are an adult, whether you realize it or not, you have created an invisible bubble around yourself called the comfort zone. We all do. Your comfort zone includes all your activities and preferences, the lifestyle you have created for yourself. It is also linked to your self-concept, what you believe are your strengths and weaknesses, your talents and lacks, your abilities and limitations.

We are all creatures of habit, and we all love order and stability in our lives. We all...

Is he (or she) lying? There are numerous clues that can help you spot a lie. You can learn about body language and how words are used, and even how to trap a liar. But one of the more interesting ways to tell if someone is lying comes from recent research at the University of Portsmouth. It has to do with our difficulty telling a story backwards.

Researchers started with the general theory that it is harder to invent a story than to tell a true one. This makes sense. If...

The great thing about studying psychology in school is that, there are very many options open to you when you graduate. There are very many areas that a person can pursue a career in. You can look at it as an open ended social science. From the many classes taken through college, one can make a choice to find a psychology job in one of the different branches of psychology. This will require you to go back to school to specialize in one of the many options available.

There are...

What exactly is Counseling Psychology? Could it be for you? Why should you consider obtaining this degree online? Enough questions – lets get to some answers. If you:

· Like advising people on how to deal with problems

· Like interviewing and testing

· Like helping with career planning

· Like social work

· Get asked for advice often

Then you should consider a counseling degree online psychology program. Judging...

Hypnotherapy as long been used to help people overcome theirs addictions or personal problems. A lot of people have tried to stop smoking or drinking many times before they turned to hypnosis, for a lot of them it is the final answer to overcome their addiction. Fortunately for them, there a many resources like hypnosis eBooks and CD's available on the market. Some will try those products others will go the more traditional way and hire a professional hypnotherapsit for their hypnosis...

Sociologist Herbert Mead developed a theory known as social behaviorism, which helped explained why past social experiences help form an individuals’ personality. Mead did not believe that personality was developed by drives or biologically, but more on terms socially. He stated that the self only developed when people interact with one another. Without the interaction of other people an individual can’t develop a personality. An example of this is if a child is left in...

Depression is a common condition that affects most of us at some time in our life. For most of us, these depressive episodes pass through like a rainstorm, but eventually they resolve themselves and we bounce back to our normal state of balance. For some, the patterns of anxiety reactions do not lift so easily and the same negative thoughts repeat over and over like a broken record player. This reliving and re-experiencing emotional agitation and pain is a major source of stress and...