President Abraham Lincoln's Prophetic Dream That Foretold His Own Death In The White House

President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own death not long before he was going to be assassinated. He reported to a friend that the dream had troubled him for days and he could not shake the melancholy it induced. It is as if he were allowed to grieve his own tragic demise in advance.

Crime Scene Investigation: Understanding The CSI Effect

If you are a fan of CSI, be it the Gil Grissom original or the various spin-off shows, it's probably better if you don't get called up for jury service as there is a very good chance that you have become a victim of the dreaded 'CSI effect.' This article addresses what the CSI effect is and its impact within the court room.

The Whole is the Illusion

What you see about you is not real. You are an illusion, imagined by all those who are creating you in their experience. Nothing is the only things that really exists.

Pavlov vs. Freud

Ivan Pavlov and Sigmund Freud had made a valuable contribution to the development of modern psychological and medical thought, as they had outlined new directions in psychiatry and physiology. Their works and their ideas are considered to be actual nowadays and form the fundamentals of teaching about psychics, mental activity and nervous system functioning.

Automatic Activation

The authors conducted the experiment in which one group of women was exposed to rape-related words and the other group was exposed to neutral words. Then the participants had to read the scenario about rape. The ambiguous scenario described the aggressiveness of man and the behaviour of woman who could possibly provoke the aggressive actions of man.

Confidentiality and Professional Ethics in Counselling

Have you ever found yourself involved in an ethical dilemma? Even if you are not a counsellor or mental health professional, it is most likely that at some stage of your life...

Counselling with Difference

One of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that client diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client's needs and objectives...

Autism - An Enigmatic Event Revisited: From the Refrigerator Mother to The Parent Trap

During the 1940s mothers of autistic children were labeled refrigerator mother. These mothers were often blamed for their children's anti-social behaviors, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation. As a result, many mothers of autistic children suffered from blame, guilt, and self-doubt from the 1940s throughout the 1970s, and to some extent, even today. This devastating disorder, best known as infantile autism, is inexplicably on the rise with no effective treatment in sight. The medical community today is just as much in the dark as they were in the 1940s. Many researchers are convinced that the environment in which we live plays a major role autism; the nation's fastest-growing developmental disorder. If this is so, than we must take into consideration the influence a chemically-driven world that we live in. Which, in turn, would dictate that the practice of both mothers and fathers be a part of any environmental study to determined the cause of autism. After all they share the same environment.

Do You Wish You Could Forget?

Have you ever had a tragic event in your life that you wish you could forget, literally erase that memory? Was it a former romance gone bad or a death of a friend? Perhaps battle scars on your memory from wars gone by? Is Data Dumping for Organic Brains Possible?

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

Critically Explore the Fascination with Body Trauma in Television Medical Melodrama

Before beginning arguments into critically exploring the fascination with body trauma in television medical melodrama, it is first essential to define melodrama, its aesthetics and its relevance within television. By definition, melodrama is 'a drama, such as a play, film, or television program, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts'.

Relation of Colour with Child Psychology

This time I am presenting in front of you all the relation of colour with child psychology. I hope that this article would be appreciated by every reader.