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Relationship

10 Signs You’re Developing a Healthier Attachment Style

Have you ever noticed that a situation that once made you anxious no longer affects you in the same way? Maybe you can give your partner some space without immediately worrying that they are losing interest. Perhaps you can express

Education Research

Neuroplasticity After a Stroke: What Research Has Shown About Brain Recovery

A stroke impacts about 15 million people worldwide, and out of those, about 5 million people have permanent damage (World Stroke Organisation, 2022). During a stroke, blood flow to part of the brain is suddenly blocked, either by a blockage

Education

Karen Horney’s Challenge to Freudian Psychology

In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud‘s psychoanalysis ruled psychological thought on the human mind. Most of the field believed its central tenets: behaviour is largely a function of unconscious instincts, personality is largely formed in early childhood, and women’s psychology

News

India Scans META for Online Child Sexual Abuse

META India will now report online child sexual abuse and exploitation directly to the Cyber Crime portal following a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) order. The NCPCR conducted investigations following a BBC documentary that exposed child sexual

Social

Why Teens Say “I’m Depressed” or “I Have Anxiety” So Casually

“That test made me so depressed.” “That presentation was so anxiety-provoking.” Expressions like these have become regular in teens’ day-to-day life. They are sometimes used just to express disappointment, nervousness or stress. In some cases, they can constitute a genuine

Therapy

How Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Helps People Overcome Phobias

In 1995, a 19-year-old undergraduate with a fear of heights, particularly of elevators, completed five sessions of graded virtual-reality exposure, with marked reductions in anxiety and avoidance (Rothbaum et al., 1995). A year later, a 42-year-old woman with a debilitating

Social

Why Does Watching Someone Struggle Trigger Our Own Anxiety? The Psychology of Emotional Contagion

Have you ever seen a friend nervous before a test and had your heart start to race just as it happened to them? Or have you experienced someone else stumble while speaking in public and begun visualising yourself doing the

Awareness

Can Therapy Be Uncomfortable Without Being Harmful?

Most of us hope that our experience of therapy is pleasant, empathetic and that our emotions feel supported and soothed. Accordingly, when our therapy brings up uncomfortable emotions such as fear, anxiety, sadness and anger, it is often interpreted that

Awareness

Recovery Is More Than Abstinence: The Psychology of Healing From Addiction

You may ask most people what “addiction recovery” means to them, and they may end up describing someone who has stopped drinking or using drugs. But research findings contradict this assumption. A national survey found that most Americans in recovery

Relationship

The Psychology of the Ick: Why Attraction Suddenly Fades

There is a moment when a person appears attractive for some reason- they’re interesting, funny, worth taking a chance on. Then they do something small: They mispronounce a word, wave at a bus too wildly, chew with their mouth open,