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The Body Remembers: How Stress, Trauma, and Emotion Shape Autoimmune Disease

The concept of our body, our most reliable shield, turning against itself, is haunting for many individuals. Autoimmune disorders are one example of that contradiction; they occur when our bodies produce an immune response to an invader in the body,

Awareness

The Neuroscience of Pleasure: Decoding the Brain’s Pleasure Symphony

Human pleasure is usually regarded as a simple physical sensation. What lies below the surface, however, is a complex electrical storm. To understand neuro-receptivity, one must really go into and examine the brain’s design: go beyond physical acts and look

Education

Alfred Adler’s Inferiority Complex: From Struggle to Strength

New psychological concepts seldom come about independently; they frequently originate from the personal experiences of the person developing them. This relates to Alfred Adler, one of the earlier forefathers of Psychology and the Father of Individual Psychology. For him, the

Parenting

Why Do Public Spaces Trigger Parental Overcorrection?

One thing that is very rarely confined to privacy is parenting. Parents are acutely aware that their relationship and interaction with children are observed by others, usually in parks, supermarkets, or public transport. At times like these, getting the child

Education

The Evolution of Psychoanalysis Through Anna Freud

Anna Freud was born on 3 December 1895, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays, the same year that her father co-authored Studies on Hysteria with Josef Breuer (Breuer & Freud, 1895), which is often considered

Awareness

Winnicott and the Power of Play: How Play Shapes the True Self

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896–1971) was a British paediatrician and psychoanalyst whose clinical work with children over a decades-long career led him to a conviction that most of his contemporaries had not properly articulated: that play is not a frivolous childhood

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Psychological Recovery After Sexual Assault: Understanding Trauma and Healing

Consider a woman who wakes up months after a sexual assault and cannot explain why the smell of a particular cologne sends her into a panic. She has not spoken about what happened. Also, she blames herself. She wonders why

Awareness

What Is Fear of Failure? Understanding Atychiphobia and Its Psychological Roots

Fear is one of the very first and core emotions that we grow up with. Everyone must have feared cockroaches, lizards, dogs or any situation. The most common being fear of failing something really important to us, this could be

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Sarcasm as a Defence Mechanism: Psychology Behind Humour, Avoidance, and Emotional Protection

A friend mutters, “Nice job” after spilling the coffee on someone’s shirt. The remark sounds like a compliment, but the tonality of the statement makes it clear that it is sarcasm at its best. Sarcasm, as learned in figure of

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Understanding Emotional Enmeshment: When Family Closeness Becomes Overwhelming

Take the case of a twenty-eight-year-old software engineer in Bengaluru, who gets more than twenty phone calls a day from his mother. His mother asks what he ate for lunch and makes desperate pleas for assistance with little household chores. If the