Medical Missions: Are We Really Making A Difference?

Medical missions: reaching-out to the needy.

What is The Collective Unconscious?

An overview of Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious and Archetypes

Self-Disclosure: Underpinnings and Applications

Are you a very important person? Sure you are. The reason for this answer is the same to almost everyone in this planet: we like talking about ourselves, we enjoy being listened, we praise our achievements, and we are very much into introspection. Although we are ultimately social beings, most humans are both consciously and subconsciously determined to improve themselves...

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.

Profiling Serial Killers: Limitations of The FBI Approach

When The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law held its annual meeting in Chicago recently, one of the panel discussions was entitled 'Serial Killers: From Cradle to Grave' which addressed the perceived limitations of FBI profiles. The aim of this article is to review the main points raised during this fascinating debate.

One Dream Interprets Another to Predict the U.S. Mid-Term Election Results

Dreams come from wherever we do. They regularly predict the future and they link people together in the world of dreams. In the following case one dream even arrived to interpret another dream! And just in time to predict the outcome of yesterday's midterm U.S. elections (November 7, 2006).

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 Scientific Credibility of Forensic Psychology

As a forensic discipline, forensic psychology can be located within the broader discourse of forensic science. However, compared to other forensic specialisms e.g. forensic pathology, forensic odontology etc, forensic psychology is often seen as the poor relation. As with psychology in general, it is often perceived, particularly by those outside the discipline as soft or pseudo science. This article examines why this viewpoint prevails and what students studying the topic can do to address the issue.

Memory and Imagination

There is one important difference between memory, in the more precise meaning of the word, and mere imagination, which makes it desirable to devote a separate chapter to its study.

When We Dream of House or Home - What Does It Mean

Every single night, everybody dreams. One of the more frequently appearing dream symbols is the house. Every dream symbol includes powerful, personal meanings and generic, archetypal levels as well. Each dream symbol contains much condensed wisdom seeking to become conscious; it is knowledge which can guide and enrich our lives, but only if we listen.

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.

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.

The Word: Personality

Life is a learning experience. The complexity of human behaviour is finely related to the several mechanisms which define how, what and when we learn about the world...

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?

Children, War, and Terrorism

“You better run for cover when the pup grows up.” ~ Les Miserable, Andrew Lloyd Weber Terrorism has its beginning in the abuse, neglect, loss of parents, and exposure to violence in early childhood resulting in disruptions in attachments. Those with disrupted attachments fail to reach pro-social maturity interpersonally, in affect regulation and self control, and in moral development. Generations of war and violence in the Middle East continues to produce more terrorists. The world must make a commitment to care for its children.