All about Psychology

               If your life is being controlled by anxiety or limited by a phobia, you'll be desperate to do something about it this may lead you to ask can hypnotherapy cure anxiety? This is a really important question. Other questions like what is hypnotherapy? What's good about it and what's bad. Is hypnotherapy effective for the type of anxiety that I have? What does the scientific evidence say about the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for anxiety? How do I tell if my hypnotherapist is good? Would a different therapy be better for me? So, let's start with what is hypnotherapy? Simply put, hypnotherapy is a therapy facilitated by hypnosis. It uses focused attention relaxation and suggestion to try to address specific problems like anxiety or phobias. But a key component of hypnotherapy which is often overlooked is the therapy part of hypnotherapy which uses techniques that are also ...

  Let's face it you're likely reading this article in an effort to avoid some other tasks you're procrastinating to learn how to stop procrastinating but the clock is ticking so why can't you seem to stop though the psychological causes are still debated there's a human tendency to over or underestimate the value of a reward based on its temporal proximity. This is often referred to as temporal discounting for example if I offered you $100 today or 110 in a month most would take the hundred and run. But what if instead I offered you 100 dollars in a year or 110 in a year and one month suddenly you might say to yourself if I can wait a year I can wait the extra month but the time and value difference are the exact same in each example it turns out that human motivation is highly influenced by how imminent the reward is perceived to be meaning, the further away the reward is the more you discount its value. This is often referred to as present bias or hyperbolic dis...

  A lot of people have this problem where their anger seems to come from nowhere, they feel fine one minute and the next they say or do something that they'll regret for other people. This problem is even worse it feels like they go from 0 to 100 in an instant. They go ballistic but the reality is anger doesn't come from nowhere, anger starts small and it grows gradually. But when anger is small it tends to be hard to notice here's the good news even if you don't consciously notice your anger starting to grow your body still reacts you might start to sweat a little bit your face might turn red you might raise your voice a few decibels without even realizing it. We call these reactions anger warning signs with a little bit of practice you can learn to use these warning signs to your advantage to stop anger and its tracks. Let me tell you how I like to think of anger warning signs in three categories:          Actions          Phys...

  When I was in school, I hated giving presentations they were just the worst type of assignment in my opinion. I stumble over my words forget what I wanted to say and they just always felt like they went really poorly but then I'd get pretty good grades and I didn't ever understand how that was happening how would I feel like I did so poorly but then I'd get good grades well. Eventually I learned this is caused by something called cognitive distortions.   A cognitive distortion is a type of “irrational thought” where you see things as a bit more negative than they really are now. Cognitive distortions are completely normal everyone has them it's just part of being human but when they're too frequent or too intense they can contribute to problems like depression and anxiety. Today I want to tell you about five different types of cognitive distortions the first cognitive distortion is called emotional reasoning this is when you feel something so intensely that y...

  CBT is a type of psychotherapy that deals with our thoughts--that's the "cognitive" part of the name--and our behaviors, which is of course the "behavioral" part of the name. CBT has been thoroughly researched and found to be an effective treatment for all sorts of disorders. Some of these are depression, anxiety, trauma, phobias, addictions, eating disorders . In some cases, the treatment can be effective in as few as 8 sessions , and the effects are long lasting.   CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts affect our feelings and our behaviors. Something happens to us, we use thought to interpret the event, which by the way, can happen so fast that we don't always notice this happening. Then finally, we react to our thoughts with emotions and behaviors. Here's a quick example. You call your friend and they don't answer. Now, two different people could have two different thoughts about the same situation. Person A might think: "My ...

               We are discussing different forms of psychotherapies that are mainly defined as different forms of verbal treatments that are devised for the treatment of different sorts of medical or psychological ailments.   Now what are the different types or kinds of the psychotherapies, we'll be discussing them over here in this section. There are different approaches there can be the cognitive therapies , the behavioral therapies then we have the humanistic approaches which are basically the newer techniques that are implied. Freud, Simon was one of the scientists that worked quite hard for the development of the psychotherapies and the different techniques are devised that were originally developed by Freud, Simon and that are implicated to treat these psychological ailments in a lot of patients. So, there are a lot of beneficial effects that are ranging to these psychotherapies. A range of psychological disorders can be trea...

Definitions   Sigmund Freud-   William James defined psychology as ''the science of mental life , both of its phenomena and their conditions''. John B Watson defined the discipline of information of psychology as "the acquistion of information useful to control of behavior" . H.D. Hamm defines psychology as the '' scientific study of the behavior of humans and animals''. Eric Pettifor defines psychology as '' an art which presents itself as science''