Categoria: International
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Oncological disease in different cultures
Reading time: 3 minutes “Culture is the core, fundamental, dynamic, responsive, adaptive, and relatively coherent organizing system of life designed to ensure the survival and well-being of its members, being always shared to find meaning and purpose throughout life and to communicate caring. This system comprises beliefs, values, and lifestyles to enable successful adaptation within…
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ARE YOU A HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON?
Reading time: 3 minutes Highly sensitive people have a very sensitive nervous system: they are born with a genetic trait that makes them more aware of their environment, including sensory input, such as sounds, smells, tastes, and touch. HSPs also tend to be more empathetic and emotionally responsive than others, which makes them more sensitive…
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Gaslighting as a From of Psychological Abuse
Reading Time: 5 minutes Emotional abuse is any action that intends to cause mental trauma, and is aimed at humiliating one’s dignity and reducing self-esteem (according to the McGraw-Hill Medical Dictionary). Emotional abuse can manifest itself in shouting, public humiliation, isolation, using offensive nicknames, devaluation of one’s knowledge and actions, insults about appearance and so…
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Unbearable emotions: what is survivor’s guilt?
Reading time: 7 minutes Guilt is a strong feeling. It occurs due to a negative assessment of one’s own behavior. Feeling guilt is experienced as a duty to oneself. Such emotions are destructive since they paralyze functioning, provoke arguments and conflicts, and lead to depreciation of oneself and one’s own actions. Most importantly, survivor’s guilt…
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The Roots of Gender Roles
Reading Time: 7 minutes Gender roles have permeated society for centuries, with the first examples going back to over 3,000 years ago. Gender roles are society’s expectation for how each gender is expected to conduct themselves, react to a situation, express themselves, and the activities they are supposed to do as well as what their…
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PSYCHOLOGY AND ART: an unbreakable link
Reading time: 5 minutes Art and the Mind Art, in its various forms, has surrounded humans and even contributed to the shaping of their experiences, since the beginning of time. Each individual no matter what kind of a person they are, has some kind of a preference and emotional attachment to certain forms of artistic…
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Depression and Success: A contemporary relationship
Reading Time: 4 minutes Success is something that almost everyone would aspire to achieve: the feeling of “having made it” and being appreciated and recognized by a large number of people (professionally or artistically speaking) is a dream for anyone. However, it’s common to hear about singers or artists who experience symptoms of depression, disappearing…
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Rosy retrospection and nostalgia as powerful marketing tools
Reading time: 4 minutes Did you know that our minds play various tricks on us to alter our understanding and perception of our world? Our brain is so incredibly complex that it can sometimes be our worst enemy. Our brain and its senses are capable of amazing things. Rosy Retrospection is one of the psychological…
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Love skills: romantic skills in adolescence
Reading time: 4 minutes Romantic competence is a construct that includes a set of cognitive, emotional and interpersonal skills that allows the individual to adaptively deal with the sentimental experience, both the positive and the more challenging and potentially critical aspects that every relationship entails. (Bouchey, 2007) Adolescence represents a period of change and transition…
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DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS: THE HIDDEN CONSEQUENCE OF SEXUAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE
Reading Time: 8 minutes Post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that develops in reaction to physical injury or severe mental or emotional distress. Although this disorder is widely acknowledged, few know about other disorders that are the aftermath of a traumatic event. Dissociative disorders are mental disorders in which an…
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