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Awareness

The Architecture of Self-Awareness: Understanding Metacognition and the Thinking Mind

Have you ever paused your thoughts and thought of how we think? Our thoughts are zooming out and learning how to engage with our thoughts more intentionally.  Often it is called “thinking about thinking”. Metacognition is the awareness and regulation

Relationship

The Psychology Behind Attachment: Why It’s Survival, Not a Choice

Attachment is something that has been wired within us before we even learn language, before we even have any personal preferences, before we even have the proper sense of who we are. And when we understand this, it can change

Awareness

From Treating Symptoms to Regulating the Brain: Rethinking the Future of Psychotherapy

“Mental health care is not about fixing people, but about restoring balance within  systems”  For a time, people have thought of therapy as a way to make bad feelings go away, like being less anxious or having fewer sad days. But

Awareness Education

Girindrasekhar Bose Corresponded with Freud as an Equal, Not a Disciple

While many scientists and philosophers from Europe were major players in the shaping of human consciousness, Girindrasekhar Bose was different. He contacted Sigmund Freud not as a disciple but rather in an equal manner, assessing Freud’s theories through both inquiry and contemplation.

Awareness

Melanie Klein’s Object Relations Theory: How Early Loss Shapes the Infant Mind

From the first few weeks of existence, before we have developed an ability to use language or recall the past, something significant is happening. A baby cries and waits for comfort to be provided or for nothing at all to happen. The

Editor's Choice Health

Interoceptive Prediction Error in Panic Disorder: The Hidden Mechanism Behind Panic Attacks

Sheetal is a 21-year-old B.Tech graduate student. She is currently in her 4th year and is focused on bagging a placement. Twelve companies have already completed their interview for the placements, out of which Sheetal was not even eligible for

News

NIMHANS Study: Impact of Child Suicide on Parents and Mental Health Professionals

A paper titled “The impact of suicidal deaths of children and adolescents among parents and mental health professionals: A systematic review and meta synthesis” has been published in the British Psychological Society journal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Social

The Psychological Impact of Digital Socialisation on the Next Generation

The next generation is growing up in a world where they can communicate with people across the world in several ways, rather than through physical meetings.  They can use social media, online games, messaging apps and virtual classrooms to meet many

Awareness

Why Trauma Talk Is Everywhere Today and What It Says About Society

These days, opening an app or turning on the screen often means hearing about trauma. School pressure lands hard enough that some call it traumatic. Relationships ending hit deep, so they get described that way, too. Even awkward phone calls

Awareness

How Chronic Stress Disrupts Working Memory: The Role of Cortisol Awakening Response

How Dysregulated HPA-Axis Activation Correlates with Working Memory Deficits Under Chronic Stress. The human brain is very susceptible to stress. Although short bursts of stress might make a person sharper and more efficient, chronic stress speaks a different language –