Anyone may be in a situation or under certain life circumstances in which our limits, and we all have limits, may be crossed and pushed so hard that we may end our lives. More than 720 000 people die due to suicide every year. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds. Seventy-three […]
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a prevalent and potentially severe mood disorder that affects approximately 1 in 7 women within the first year after childbirth. PPD stems from a combination of hormonal changes, genetic predisposition, and environmental factors, yet up to 50% of cases remain undiagnosed due to the stigma surrounding the condition and patients’ reluctance
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Schizotypal personality disorder belongs to Cluster A personality disorders, which also include schizoid personality disorder and paranoid personality disorder. Schizotypal personality disorder is characterized by deficits in social and interpersonal skills, highlighted by a reduced ability to form close relationships, occurring in the setting of eccentric behavior and cognitive or perceptual distortions. Symptoms such as
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In social sciences and in medicine, the term “Werther-effect” is used as a synonym for media induced imitation effects of suicidal behavior. The term was coined following the publication of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which tells the story of a romantic infatuation that ends in suicide. One of these
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Sexual victimization occurs in all ages, sexes, ethnicities, educational fields, and socioeconomic groups. Sexual offending covers a range of criminal sexual acts, including sexual assaults of older adolescents or adults, sexual contact with children under the legally defined age of each jurisdiction, noncontact sexual offenses involving exhibitionism or voyeurism (e.g., this could include online offending
Gestalt psychology, school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. That is, the attributes of the whole are not deducible from analysis of the parts in isolation. Gestalt psychology is a school
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Mood is the underlying feelings that an individual has while affect is the collection of outward expressions that help to interpret mood. A person’s affect is the collection of behaviors that describe their emotional state. Within the context of psychology, affect refers to the feelings that humans have. They are used to qualify and describe
Countertransference is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a clinician lets their own feelings shape the way they interact with or react to their client in therapy. Often, countertransference is unconscious, and both the clinician nor the client realizes it is happening. Dysfunctional patterns, beliefs, and assumptions that affect a patient’s perception of other people
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Cognitive biases are unconscious and systematic errors in thinking that occur when people process and interpret information in their surroundings and influence their decisions and judgments (Kahneman et al., 1982). These biases can distort an individual’s perception of reality, resulting in inaccurate information interpretation and rationally bounded decision-making (Kahneman, 2011). Cognitive biases are often seen
The halo effect refers to the tendency to allow one specific trait or our overall impression of a person, company or product to positively influence our judgment of their other related traits. A single positive quality of a person may induce a positive predisposition toward every aspect of that person while one negative attribute of
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