Personality Disorders

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What Is Emotional Unavailability?

We begin experiencing emotions early in childhood and soon learn to recognize when someone else feels happiness, anger, disappointment or…

What Are The Side Effects Of Oxygen Therapy?

Oxygen is often provided to reduce the workload of the heart and lungs in emergency situations. Conditions that weaken the…

Symptoms of Being Emotionally Unavailable

An emotionally unavailable person is a man or a woman who is unable to form a deep, loving attachment with…

What Causes Emotional Numbness?

Emotional numbness is the inability to feel anything. People who are emotionally numb don't experience happiness, sadness, anger or even…

Signs Of An Emotionally Abusive Husband

Unlike physical abuse, emotional abuse doesn't leave visible evidence. Psychological abuse may not leave visible scars, but often causes deep…

The Psychological Effects of a Single Parent Family

Very few people become single parents intentionally, but when tragedy strikes in the form of divorce, illness, or accident, what…

Social & Emotional Benefits of Regular Exercise

Exercise is one of the best ways to remain fit and healthy for people of all ages. The physical benefits…

Can Iron Deficiency Cause Psychological Problems?

The link between iron stores and your physical energy stores has been understood since the 1950's. Iron, the mineral that…

Bipolar 1 Disorder With Psychotic Features

Bipolar 1 disorder is a mood disorder characterized by episodes of mania and episodes of depression. People experiencing a manic…

Five Common Types of Psychological Tests

Many people have a great fear of mental health testing. This is often because there is no real scale for…

FALSE POSITIVE

is considered the binary opposite to a false negative where in diagnostics for example, an individual may not actually have…

FOCUS GROUP

group of about 12 people with common characteristics who have been selected to discuss a topic. A leader starts the…

FREUD, SIGMUND

He pioneered psychoanalysis after studying neurology and turning to mental disorders like hysteria. He developed a method of free association…

FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR

a tendency to overestimate the degree that behaviour is determined by personal characteristics, beliefs and attitudes that minimises the effects…

GOAL DIFFICULTY

the term that is used to describe the degree of ability, effort and time commitment needed to achieve a certain…

INTERGROUP CONFLICT

The term for disagreement or confrontation between two or more groups and their members. This may involve physical violence, interpersonal…

INTERVIEW

A conversation that is directed in which a clinician, employer, therapist, researcher or (the interviewer) intends to elicit specific information…

IRRATIONAL BELIEF

or cognitive distortion is an illogical, erroneous or distorted idea, firmly held despite objective contradictory evidence. This was attributed to…

LATENT INHIBITION

The impedance of Pavlovian conditioning resulting from prior exposures with a conditioned stimulus before being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

FALSE-ALARM RATE

is the number or proportion of incorrect answers such as "Yes" or "No" given as final responses to tasks within…