Psychopathic Personality: The Absence of Conscience

We are all familiar with the likes of, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Gilmore, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy; to name a few. These individuals are deadly social preditors better known as psychopaths whose glaring lack of conscience is made abundantly clear in popular books and movies. These psychopaths are the ghost of our daily lives at the office, at home, and in our relationships. Psychopaths have been around for a very long time and can be found in every race, culture, society, and every walk of life. At one time or another everyone has met these social predator, many of us been deceived and manipulated by them, and compelled share our lives with or repair the damage they left behind. Psychopaths are often charming, but always deadly; their goal is self-gratification at the other person's expense. Many psychopaths are criminals, but many others manage to remain out of prison. Like the social predators they are; psychopaths use their charm and chameleon-like coloration to charm they way through society, leaving many ruined lives behind.

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.

The Word - Fear

Fear is a common and dictating aspect of human behaviour. It is such a common reality to be afraid, that we have literally hundreds of words describing a particular fear which someone has reported suffering from. There are enough words to create a Phobia Dictionary. In this article, we will analyse the underpinnings of fear, an impressive (and often disconcerting) human emotion.

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.

Fundamental Attribution Error - Basic Explanation With Some Examples

The Fundamental Attribution Error shows that things are not what they seem. It is easy to judge a person's negative actions without realizing that certain pressures in life caused them to act that way.

Personality & Emotional Development

The question of personality is one of the central notions in the psychological science but it also deals with a lot of other sciences. The study of personality is interesting not only to scholars and scientists but to all of us as it’s a thing each of us possesses and can’t ignore.

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Two

Counselling, Psychology and other professions which are involved with mental health-related therapies require a particular career blueprint which includes a variety of traits and skills. What is this blueprint? In a 4-article series, we depict the major areas which are responsible for building the effective counsellor's mindset. This is Part Two.

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part One

Counselling, Psychology and other professions which are involved with mental health-related therapies require a particular career blueprint which includes a variety of traits and skills. What is this blueprint? In a 4-article series, we depict the major areas which are responsible for building the effective counsellor's mindset. This is Part One.

Humans are Predictable

Many people say that humans are not predictable and I would tend to disagree with that statement. As a matter of fact I think human behavior is very predictable and I think that the people who say that humans are not predictable are caught in political correctness and refuse to look at stereotypes, patterns and the commonalities between humans and other animals in the animal kingdom.

Classical Conditioning Theory

Classical conditioning being a form of learning was discovered by the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov in 1900s.

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.

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...

My Extraordinary Memory Skills

How an ordinary boy and man developed a phenomenal memory. He memorized hundreds of years of the day of the week each date occurred or will occur on. He then memorized a plethora of other information by linking them to the dates.

Life Coach - Do You Need One?

Life coaching is one of those things that we hear about on TV and in the press and laugh at

Social Psychology: The Psychological Explanations of Social Phenomena

The various aspects of social psychology could be examined within the wide concepts of intelligence, gender, advertising, consumer culture, stress and psychological issues that define society.