Viktor Frankl: Existentialist and the Father of Logotherapy

Viktor E. Frankl born 1905, educated in Venna, and from 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau, the Nazi two most infamous concentration camps. Dr. Frankl the father of Logotherapy, a well-known author and many of his work has been translated from German into Polish, Japanese, and several other languages including English. Logotherapy is often called the third branch of Venna school of psychotherapy following Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology.

The Therapeutic Approach in Counselling

In the context of mental health, therapy has vastly changed over time. Long before the scientific approach to the treatment of mental health prevailed, attempts to discover the underpinnings of the human mind produced a wide range of therapies and theories. For many centuries...

Confidentiality and Professional Ethics in Counselling

Have you ever found yourself involved in an ethical dilemma? Even if you are not a counsellor or mental health professional, it is most likely that at some stage of your life...

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...

Doctor, Is This Person Dangerous?

John Hinkley is a prime example of how the criminal justice system must determine risk of future violence every day. Determination of non-dangerousness has allowed him to have over night home visits. Assessing risk of violence is an issue separate from evaluating mental health issues. The fourth generation of violence risk assessment tools uses clinical items, risk and resiliency factors, and risk management plans.

Our Four Temperaments, Aussie Style

The Myers-Briggs personality type indicator is world-renowned, but not always easy to understand by the general public. In 2005 an Australian-based indicator, based on the 4 temperaments, has joined the world: Dreamtime Personalities

White Noise - Behavior Modification Tool

White Noise is not actually “noise” it is a random signal with a flat power spectral. It is a sound frequency or a signal that one hears as a gentle hiss, similar to the sound of wind rustling through trees, a waterfall, radio static or the ocean turf. It is purely a theoretical construct. To use a simple analogy, the color white contains the whole spectrum of colors of light. Similarly white noise is created by using the entire spectrum of frequencies, the human ear can hear.

Discover the Secrets of Personality Type

Discover your own personality type and learn how you're unique. With the secrets of Myers-Briggs Personality Type, you'll understand why other people think differently, and how you can use this to your advantage.

Adolescence: A Sine Quo'on Of One's Life

Adolescence is like a bridge between the stage of infancy and adulthood. It is during this stage of adolescence that varied changes takes place in one’s body both physical and psychological

Lucky Lance Lives Life

Have you ever noticed that certain people with certain names have similar personalities? Perhaps you have and perhaps you've read articles or research on this. I have noticed that people with the name Lance seem to live their life with excitement, challenge and often competition. Why does a person's name reflect their personality?

Are Correctional Staff Sick of Their Jobs or Are Their Jobs Making Them Sick?

This study assessed the effect of stress on the physical and emotional well-being of correctional employees. The findings supported that work stress in a correctional setting can have a negative effect employees physical and mental health

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.

Do Certain Bloodlines Help Make Some People Better Thinkers?

Is it possible for certain bloodlines or ancestry to cause more scientists in those families? Let's say that Sir Isaac Newton, Nicola Tesla or Albert Einstein were in your family tree? Would that help you or give you an edge in innovation, discovery or perhaps finding the answer to Grand Unification?

Accelerating Active Aggression

Induced brain waves can do many things we have found in the last few decades as researchers discover and learn more about the brain. One thing that can be done is to incite a rogue brain wave, which triggers an aggressive response. But why would you want an aggressive response you ask?

For The Fearful Flyer Spread Your Wings In Plane Comfort

Many fearful flyers can vividly recall the prolonged turbulence often associated with their first attack of panic, with its rush of physical symptoms, confusion and an intense desire to flee. This fear or panic attack is often so unexpected and misunderstood that some people become terrified that they are having a heart attack or going crazy. They can develop a great deal of anxiety and shame about feeling so out of control of their emotions and thoughts.