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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

Awareness

The Role of Sociopolitical Context in Shaping 20th Century Psychological Paradigms

History is not a backdrop; it is the architect. We imagine the mind as a universal constant, a biological clockwork ticking away in a vacuum. We are wrong. The 20th century was a meat grinder of ideology, war, and revolution.

Awareness

How Seasons Impact Mood: Understanding Winter Blues and Seasonal Depression

As the days are shortened and the temperature drops, many people experience a mood shift. They experience sadness, loneliness and even low energy. Why does this happen even when there is no visible change in the life conditions? Have you

Research

Is Screen Time Delaying Your Child’s Language Development? Research Insights

A new study was conducted at the University of Florida Atlantic, along with the University of Aarhus in Denmark. According to this research, the researchers found that unsupervised screen time that kids have on mobile devices and tablets is a major

Awareness

Identity Foreclosure in Early Career Choices: Understanding the Psychology of Premature Decisions

The transition from graduation to work is framed as a race where the fastest “settle down” occurs. Society often praises a twenty-two-year-old who lands a prestigious associate role at a top-tier firm, viewing such immediate certainty as a sign of maturity. However,

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

Research

How Acetylcholine Controls Dopamine: New Insights from Neuroscience

A recent study conducted by the neurobiologists of New York University studied the movement of dopamine and the way in which it manages different functions inside the brain. For years it has been a continuous struggle for the scientists to explain

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.

Crime

From CNCP to CCL: How Systemic Neglect Pushes Vulnerable Children into Crime in India

Imagine two snapshots of the same child, taken two years apart. In the first, she’s eleven, sleeping at a railway station, begging for food. In the second, she’s thirteen, being produced before a Juvenile Justice (JJ) Board for theft. To

Relationship

Digital Intimacy: Redefining Human Connection in the Digital Era

​Human beings are connected. The necessity to establish emotional connections with other people was already discovered long before smartphones, social media, and video calls. It was identified by the British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1969). His Attachment Theory suggested