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Mother-in-Law vs Daughter-in-Law Conflict: A Family Systems Theory Perspective

Think of a Saturday morning in the kitchen of a newly married couple. The wife is cooking a meal, meticulously following a recipe she has mastered. Her mother-in-law walks into the room, takes a breath, raises her hand, picks up a spice

Education

The ‘Baby in a Box’ Myth: What B. F. Skinner Really Created

Imagine hearing that a psychologist raised his own child inside a box. Not a metaphorical one. A literal one.  For many years, the literature reported an unbelievable incident regarding B. F. Skinner, one of the foremost psychologists of the twentieth century

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Former IPL Team Doctor Highlights Injuries, Prevention, and Mental Health in Cricket

Though all fanatics focus on the runs scored and the wickets taken during each IPL match, what most fans do not see is that, for example, Team Physicians focus on keeping players healthy. Dr Ameya Kagali, who was the Rajasthan

Awareness

Hormones and Heat: Understanding the Chemical Basis of Aggression

One of the most complex human behaviours that often comes to the surface in situations of competition, conflicts, or stress is aggression. Expression of aggression is deeply shaped by social and cultural factors, but human biology plays a crucial role

Awareness Education

Academic Pressure in India: Understanding Its Role in Rising Youth Suicide Rates

The scholastic burden is fueling the desire for youngsters’ suicide cases in India, where extreme battles of academia and expectations of parents and society create anxiety and psychological distress that are immensely greater than in Western contexts. Two major theories

Motivation Positive

Understanding Humanity Through Existential Psychology: Why Meaning Matters

Life can be really quiet at times. It is not a quiet but a weird kind of quiet that makes you wonder, “Am I doing the right thing?” This kind of quiet can happen to anyone at any time, especially

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Nearly 1 in 8 Mothers in Bhubaneswar Face Postpartum Depression, Study Finds

According to new research done in Bhubaneswar, almost 1 in 8 mothers has postpartum depression after giving birth. This shows how important it is to pay attention to mental health even though we don’t always think about it. Mothers who have given

Health Positive

The Language of Dreams: Symbols, Archetypes, and The Science of the Sleeping Brain

Picture a man who, night after night, is standing on the edge of a crumbling building. He is not afraid; he holds a rusted key that fits into an invisible lock. In the waking world, he is a corporate executive

Relationship

Limerence: Understanding Intense One-Sided Attachment in Today’s Relationships

Frequently, our feelings fail to demonstrate themselves honestly. For example, limerence is one of those times. This word can sometimes have some difficulty in defining it. Limerence can exist in phrases like “I think I am in love” or “It’s complicated”. It

Awareness

Therapy Trailblazers: Women Who Transformed Modern Mental Health Care

For centuries, the history of psychology was always told a story held in the closet as a gallery of “Great Men”, a lineage which stretches from Sigmund Freud’s Victorian couches to B.F. Skinner’s modern behavioural cages. But this story is not