The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY makes her nervous, her heart races (biological); she forgets what she was saying, and she leaves the scen ...

One of the most devastating of mental illnesses is schizophrenia, a partly inherited condition that’s associated with delusions ...

SCHIZOPHRENIA deepened, Chadwick continues: “it was as if I was not ‘thinking the delu- sion,’ the delusion was ‘thinking me!’ I ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY tive image would be showing evidence of “adaptive salience”; those who speeded up after an irrelev ...

with schizophrenia have loving mothers, and it is now known that there is a large genetic component to the illness. Hundreds of ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY vulnerability reacting to stress is corroborated by research conducted in Southeast London by Jame ...

SCHIZOPHRENIA their childhood history. Among the sixteen people who reported having had one or more non-distressing psychotic ex ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY and mental health campaigners oppose this idea. They point to the statistics showing how rare it i ...

To many people, psychology is synonymous with psychotherapy. As previous chapters have shown, psychologists are in fact involved ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY was to provide a place of refuge, the conditions in many of these asylums was grim, and treatment ...

THERAPY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY he developed at the end of the nineteenth century. Freud, in turn, was inspired by his mentor, t ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY worked through and resolved. Traditionally, this exercise was performed with the analysand prostra ...

THERAPY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY and attachment styles of previous relationships are played out in other, newer relationships, in ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY therapy. Rogers was influenced in part by the work of Abraham Maslow (1908–70), the founder of hum ...

THERAPY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY approach is flooding, which is akin to dropping the client in at the deep end – that is, subject ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY caused problems and tries to identify hot thoughts that precipitated discomfort. An example might ...

THERAPY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY to CBT. Proponents of CBT recognize that thoughts and behaviour can influence each other in self ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Association, Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania attempted to change that. He called ...

THERAPY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Fredrickson has demonstrated aspects of the “broaden” part of her theory in the laboratory. For ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY initiated the break-up). Crucially, 58 percent of those surveyed said they experienced multiple po ...