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The Heart of Grief
Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the n…
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Diagnosing Personality Disorders
Personality traits are enduring, usually rigid patterns of behavior, thinking (cognition), and emoting expressed in a variety of …
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The Fundamentals of Psychological Theories
All theories - scientific or not - start with a problem. They aim to solve it by proving that what appears to be "problematic" is…
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Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Asperger's Disorder
(The use of gender pronouns in this article reflects the clinical facts: most narcissists and most Asperger's patients are male.)…
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What are hypnotic language patterns?
Language is an interesting thing. The most amazing thing isn't that we get confused by it but that we're able to use it so well w…
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The Spirit of Soul
When was the last time you closed your eyes and simply paid attention to the inner world in you? As you close your eyes and pay a…
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Military Psychology: The Latest Developments
Aside from the billions of dollars spent on military hardware like planes, submarines, aircraft carriers and state of the art mis…
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Narcissism and Personality Disorders
Are all personality disorders the outcomes of frustrated narcissism? During our formative years (6 months to 6 years old), we are…
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Personality Test: Successful People Have Difficulty Changing
A hard working partner at a major law firm, John B., finds that he gets short with co-workers especially when under stress. He i…
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The Construct of Normal Personality
Personality disorders are dysfunctions of our whole identity, tears in the fabric of who we are. They are all-pervasive because o…
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Is Road Rage A Psychiatric Disorder?
Recent headline: ?Road Rage may be due to medical condition called Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)?WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHI…
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The World's Greatest Lie...
"Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man."What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy as…
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The Roots of Pedophilia
Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children and act on their sexual fantasies. It is a startling fact that the etiology of …
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Is It Possible To Quit Smoking with NLP?
We all know how smoking can be a hard to quit habit for thousands, if not millions, of people across the globe. Yeah, smoking su…
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The Choice between Yes and Yes - A Psychological Revelation
You laugh at the story, don't you?The method used to get Kara into bed seems a bit like trickery. And who am I to say that it's n…
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Psychological Tests
Personality assessment is perhaps more an art form than a science. In an attempt to render it as objective and standardized as po…
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Using Mind Control to Create an Addiction
With all the paranoia of mind control and how Neuro Linguistic Probramming (NLP) can be (and is) used to "mess with peoples heads…
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Pathological Narcissism, Psychosis, and Delusions
One of the most important symptoms of pathological narcissism (the Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is grandiosity. Grandiose f…
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The History of Personality Disorders
Well into the eighteenth century, the only types of mental illness - then collectively known as "delirium" or "mania" - were depr…
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The Narcissist as Eternal Child
"Puer Aeternus" ? the eternal adolescent, the semipternal Peter pan ? is a phenomenon often associated with pathological narcissi…