This what is… insights into psychology series, which runs weekly on Fridays, explores the meaning of a wide range of terms that come from the field of psychology, psychiatry, and other related areas. These are all researched posts with supporting references, which means I get to learn something new each week and you get to learn along with me!
The terms covered so far are:
- Amnesia
- Anxiety vs worry
- Assertiveness
- Attention
- Attribution theory
- Autonomy
- Burnout
- Cognitive bias
- Cognitive remediation
- Compassion
- Conversion “therapy”
- Diathesis-stress model (relationship between environment and biological vulnerability)
- Dreaming
- Ego dystonic & ego syntonic thoughts/feelings/behaviours
- Emotional intelligence
- Hope/hopelessness
- Imposter syndrome
- Inner child
- Insanity
- Invalidation
- Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
- IQ (intelligence quotient)
- Jealousy & envy
- Judgementality
- Libido
- Locus of control
- Love
- Malingering
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Memory
- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
- Reality
- Resilience
- Rumination
- Self-efficacy
- Self-esteem
- Sex vs. gender
- Shame and guilt
- Sleep
- Stanford prison experiment
- Stoicism
- Stress (psychological)
- Trolling (online)
- Vulnerability
- Wounded healer Jungian archetype
Abuse & Trauma
- DARVO (response to sexual assault allegations: deny; accuse; reverse victim and offender)
- Gaslighting
- Stockholm syndrome (trauma bonding)
- Victim blaming
Mental Illness Diagnoses & Symptoms
- Anosognosia (lack of insight)
- Antisociality – covers antisocial personality disorder as well as asociality
- Conversion disorder
- Emetophobia (fear of vomiting)
- False pregnancy (pseudocyesis)
- Folie à deux (shared psychotic disorder)
- Kleptomania
- Melancholia
- Munchausen by proxy (factitious disorder imposed on another)
- Narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
- Paranoia
- Psychomotor retardation (slowing of movement in depression)
- Recovery (in.a mental health context)
- Seasonal affective disorder (depression or bipolar disorder with seasonal features)
- Trauma vs PTSD
- Ultra rapid cycling (in bipolar disorder)
Personality Traits & Types
- Alexithymia (inability to identify/describe emotions)
- Competitiveness
- Enneagram personality typology
- Myers-Briggs personality types
- Neuroticism
- Perfectionism
- Personality trait vs. disorder
- Psychopathy
- Type A personality
Social psychology & Relationships
- Attachment theory
- Codependency
- Conformity
- Enmeshment
- Herd behaviour
- Just world fallacy (fallacy of fairness)
- Pluralistic ignorance
- Social isolation
Therapy Approaches & Concepts
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for pain
- Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
- Defense mechanisms (from psychoanalytic theory)
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), aka tapping
- Exposure and response prevention (ERP), a type of CBT intervention
- Freudian psychoanalytic theory
- Hypnotherapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy (based on psychoanalytic theory)
- Repression and suppression (defense mechanisms)
- Safety behaviour (as defined in cognitive behavioural therapy)
- Unconditional positive regard (from Carl Rogers’ humanistic psychology)