What is The Collective Unconscious?

An overview of Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious and Archetypes

Abuse Victims Widely Misdiagnosed

Victims of rape and child sexual abuse are often given a wrong diagnosis. Most suffer posttraumatic stress disorder, but they may be labelled the insulting diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

The Truth About Suicides

The sophisticated, modern world shuns at the idea of talking about suicide. However, man’s aversion to the idea of suicide does not diminish the fact that more and more people are contemplating about taking their lives everyday, every minute, every second.

Critical Issues in Forensic Psychology: False Confessions

The topic of false confessions is another very important issue within a legal context where psychological knowledge and expertise can be brought be bear. Psychological vulnerabilities and interrogative circumstances are two of the key areas that have been examined by psychologists in relation to false confessions.

Some Dreams Save Lives: A Case Study of a Heart Attack

One of the surprising secrets of professional dream interpretation is how often dreams predict life challenges and prepare us to meet them. This dream foreshadowed JT's upcoming heart attack, without spelling it out, and it prepared her to survive it.

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Three

Counselling, Psychology and other professions which are involved with mental health-related therapies require a particular career blueprint which includes a variety of traits and skills. What is this blueprint? In a 4-article series, we depict the major areas which are responsible for building the effective counsellor's mindset. This is Part Three.

Humans and their Inability to Cope

Many people get so stressed out that they cannot handle any sort of change in schedule and find themselves unable to cope with things. It is too bad that people get stressed over change and it is too bad so many humans have the inability to cope with things when they do change.

Viktor Frankl: Existentialist and the Father of Logotherapy

Viktor E. Frankl born 1905, educated in Venna, and from 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau, the Nazi two most infamous concentration camps. Dr. Frankl the father of Logotherapy, a well-known author and many of his work has been translated from German into Polish, Japanese, and several other languages including English. Logotherapy is often called the third branch of Venna school of psychotherapy following Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology.

The Therapeutic Approach in Counselling

In the context of mental health, therapy has vastly changed over time. Long before the scientific approach to the treatment of mental health prevailed, attempts to discover the underpinnings of the human mind produced a wide range of therapies and theories. For many centuries...

Trauma and Counselling

The word 'trauma' originates from the Greek 'wound', and it refers to both psychological and physiological aspects. Trauma occurs as a result of a serious event and it has deep roots in various levels of the human mind and behaviour...

Doctor, Is This Person Dangerous?

John Hinkley is a prime example of how the criminal justice system must determine risk of future violence every day. Determination of non-dangerousness has allowed him to have over night home visits. Assessing risk of violence is an issue separate from evaluating mental health issues. The fourth generation of violence risk assessment tools uses clinical items, risk and resiliency factors, and risk management plans.

Adolescence: A Sine Quo'on Of One's Life

Adolescence is like a bridge between the stage of infancy and adulthood. It is during this stage of adolescence that varied changes takes place in one’s body both physical and psychological