In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is stoicism. Stoicism came up in a book I recently reviewed, You Got This, and I wanted to find out more about it. It means taking a detour from psychology into the world of philosophy. Stoicism in Ancient […]
The wounded healer interview series features people who’ve dealt with significant mental health challenges, and who also work in a helping role to support the mental health of others. This interview is with Kacha of Food.for.Thoughts. Wounded Healer, Who Is Looking in the Mirror Tell us a bit about you, the helping field you’re in
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is online trolling. Of course, we all know what trolling is, and most of us have experienced it. But what underlies it from a psychological perspective? A paper by Coles and West described trolling as “a specific type
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I find it fascinating the range of comfort levels people have with being alone. It’s pretty much guaranteed that we will all need to spend at least some time in our own company, yet there are many, many ways in which people experience this. While I know that for some people alone time is quite
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is alexithymia. Alexithymia involves an inability to identify and describe emotions. It’s considered a personality trait that can be present to varying degrees and is relatively stable over time. It’s been associated with a number of DSM diagnoses
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Being perfect is an ideal that some people may strive for or feel that they are required to attain, but how realistic is the notion of perfection? One of the biggest problems with perfect is that a lot of things in this world are subjective. When it comes to things that are subjective, everyone has
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is victim blaming. Victim blaming involves placing the responsibility for a violent or otherwise harmful act either entirely or partially on the victim of that act. It arises from distorted beliefs regarding victims, perpetrators, and the harmful acts
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is emetophobia. Emetophobia, or fear of vomiting, falls under the diagnosis of specific phobia in the DSM-5. However, it hasn’t been as well researched as other types of phobias. As a phobia, it goes far beyond a dislike
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In this emerging blogger post, Sana of The Curly Therapist writes about attachment styles. What is “Attachment”? Attachment theory is focused on the relationships and bonds between people, especially long-term relationships, between a parent and child and between romantic partners. John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, pioneers of this subject, found that the way infants’ needs
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is wounded healer. The concept of wounded healers was first described in the modern field of psychology by Carl Jung, who used it to describe psychoanalysts who had chosen to go into clinical practice because of their own psychological
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