It's not hard to recognize emotional abusers because you will definitely find yourself feeling drained when you are around them. Emotional abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse. It leaves the victim with no self-worth, low self-esteem, they can feel totally dependent on their abuser. It can be…
Freudian theory has made more impact on our lives today than you could imagine. Read on to learn how his ideas were used for the manipulation of the masses. In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud formulated his theories on psychodynamics that have led to controversies around the world. While many…
When people think about psychology and psychotherapy, especially those unfamiliar with the fields, most tend to think about Sigmund Freud and his theories on psychosexual development. Oedipus and Electra complexes are among Freud’s most controversial theories. According to these ideas, boys go through a phallic stage when they have an…
“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is." ~Mae West Corporations are infamous for giving out in-depth intelligence and personality tests like Tony Robbin’s world-famous DISC test to prospective employees in hopes of…
The test was designed in the 20th century by the Hungarian psychiatrist Leopold Szondi. The aim was to explore the deepest repressed impulses of a person on the basis of sympathy or aversion caused by the specific photos of psychopaths. The Szondi test is based on the general notion that…
The Unconscious It was Breuer, the mentor of Feud, who first discovered that people cannot always put their thoughts and feelings into words, as if sometimes, they don't know why they think and feel the way they do. With some help from Breuer, patients were able to put into words…
