Categoria: International
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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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NOT JUST ONE TRAUMA….BUT PLENTY!
Reading time: 5 minutes People usually think of trauma as an isolated event in a person’s life, which can lead to more or less serious consequences, depending on the level of impact it has on the individual. These can vary according to the age of the individual, genetic variables, the attachment bond, and the social…
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Traumatic events: differences between simple and complex trauma
Reading time: 4 minutes With trauma we mean the alteration of the normal psychic state following adverse, painful and negative experiences experienced by the individual. The response to trauma is subjective and varies according to the individual, contextual and social resources we have. A traumatic event is a stressful event, which cannot be avoided and…
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HOW DOES THE ORDER IN WHICH YOU ARE BORN INFLUENCE ON YOUR PERSONALITY TRAITS?
Reading time: 8 minutes How does birth order affect a child’s personality traits? Can the character of an older child change with the advent of a brother or sister? And what difficulties do only children face? The answers to these questions are given further in this article. WHAT IS A ‘BIRTH ORDER’? Birth order defines…
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