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Personality traits are enduring, usually rigid pattern of behavior, thought (knowledge), and emoting expressed in a variety of circumstances and situations and throughout the life of a (usually young people from the beginning of the next). Some personality traits are harmful to both themselves and others. This is a dysfunctional traits. They often cause anxiety and the relationship is unhappy traits and self-critical. This is called ego-dystony. At other times, even the worst personality traits are happily supported and even flaunted by the patient. This is called “ego-syntony”. Read More
Sep 29 2009
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Diagnosing the nature of the existence of a personality (the application of the diagnostic criteria) is an art, not science. Someone evaluating, appraising patients’ cognitive and emotional landscape, and the motivation for attributing to him, is a matter of judgment. No calibrated scientific instrument that can give us a goal to read whether a lack of empathy, of evil, is sexualizing the situation and the people, or the clinging and the poor. Read More
Sep 25 2009
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Have you ever been curious about your future? Have you ever called a phone psychic to get some answers?
If you want to know how psychology works, read on. This article is for you. Read More
Sep 21 2009
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Another obstacle in trying to determine the scientific value of psychoanalysis is ambiguity. Not clear, for example, what in psychoanalysis qualify as causes – and what as effects. Read more..
Sep 17 2009
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The difference between “correct” theory of dynamics and psychodynamic theories is that the former asymptotically aspire to a goal “the truth” “out there” – while the second appears and appears from a kernel of inner, introspective, truth that immediately familiar and bedrock they gamble. Scientific theory – in comparison with the psychological “theories” – need, therefore, to be tested, falsified, and modified as it is not self-righteousness. Read More
Sep 13 2009
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Did you know that the “pattern interrupts” is the hypnotist’s secret weapon to gain direct access to the subconscious mind something? Read More
Sep 09 2009
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Indeed, psychological narratives – psychoanalysis, and especially the first – not “scientific theory” by many mouth stretch this label. They also will never become a person. But – like myth, religion, and ideology – they set the principles. Read More
Sep 05 2009
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I was not expert knowledge at all. . . . I am not only a Conquistador by temperament, an adventurer.
(Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900)
“If you remove all that is in you, what you will bear your safety.”
(The Gospel of Thomas)
“No, we do not insubstantial science. But it will be an illusion that science can not give us we can not get elsewhere.”
(Sigmund Freud, “The Future of an Illusion”)
Harold Bloom called Freud “The central imagination we age.” Psychoanalysis is not scientific theory in the strict sense of the word carefully has long been established. However, most of the criticisms of Freud’s work (by many of Karl Popper, Adolf Grunbaum, Havelock Ellis, Malcolm Macmillan, and Frederick Crews) dealing with – long debunked – scientific pretensions. Read More
Sep 01 2009