Psychoanalysis

Psychometric Testing
Psychometric tests are standardized tools for evaluation of attitudes, intelligence and characteristics of an individual. Read on to know more about psychometric testing.

Psychosocial Evaluation in Decision Making Process
Are you another Hamlet in the decision-making process? According to psychosocial evaluation, human mind is blocked at "to be or not to be?" We have many critical questions in this age of post modernism. This article will help you in decision making process from the viewpoint presented in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Psychological Testing
Psychological testing is a widely employed method for assessing several psychological characteristics of human beings. Here is more information about psychological testing...

Psychoanalysis and Educational Practice - A Possible Join?
Psychoanalysis can be seen as an important tool for Educational purposes, therefore there are some concepts that can assist in the agreement of certain problems in the school, but its paper is sufficiently criticized, so, general understanding about the existent gaps is essential

Ambiguity plus Ambiguity Equals to Inkblot Tests
Inkblot Tests are ambiguous for philosophy and idiosyncratic interpretations. But they are getting popular.

Subliminal Messaging CDs - At The Frontiers Of Technology And Psychoanalysis
It is now a well-known fact that subliminal messaging is an effective technique to communicate highly-focused messages to our subconscious mind, in order to achieve positive results in desired areas in our life. This article examines how the subliminal messaging CD industry is experimenting with science and psychoanalysis to take this communication to a higher level.

Psychoanalysis - A scientific theory? - Part V
This is the circularity of the arguments against psychoanalysis. If Freud's work is considered to be the modern equivalent of myth, religion, or literature - it need not be tested to be considered "true" in the deepest sense of the word.

Psychoanalysis - A scientific theory? - Part IV
Towards the end of the 19th century, the new discipline of psychology became entrenched in both Europe and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of scientific (some would say, pseudo-scientific) scrutiny.

Psychoanalysis - A scientific theory? - Part III
Psychological theories of the mind are metaphors of the mind. They are fables and myths, narratives, stories, hypotheses, conjunctures.

Psychoanalysis - A scientific theory? - Part II
Many hold all psychodynamic theories to be a mirage. An essential part is missing, they observe: the ability to test the hypotheses, which derive from these "theories".

Psychoanalysis - A scientific theory? - Part I
No social theory has been more influential and, later, more reviled than psychoanalysis. It burst upon the scene of modern thought, a fresh breath of revolutionary and daring imagination, a Herculean feat of model-construction, and a challenge to established morals and manners.