Psychologists
Forensic Psychiatry
Forensic psychiatry deals with mental health as well as law. Read on to know more about this branch of medicine.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Chapter 1
Half a century ago, a young social psychologist named Leon Festinger and two associates infiltrated a group of people who believed the world would end on December 21. They wanted to know what would happen to the group when (they hoped!) the prophecy failed.
Find Your Own Hobby
Psychologists state the following theory, which I totally agree with because can be easily proved: having certain preoccupations (hobbies) makes your life quality grow by enhancing the level of happiness.
Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
In her most difficult case yet, investigator-psychologist Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful memories from World War I to resolve the mystery surrounding a pilot's death.
Touched by the Extraordinary: An Intuitive Psychologist Shares Insights, Lessons, and True Stories of Spirit and Love to Transform and Heal the Soul
Expecting the Extraordinary: Invite Miracles to Bless You in the New Year. Susan Apollon says that miracles do not happen by coincidence--we are designed for them. Here's what you can do to invite those moments of divine magnitude into your life.
Dealing with "Hurricane Pain"
Six Ways to Face, Embrace, and Replace Your Hidden Fears. Susan Apollon, an intuitive psychologist and author, says that seeing other people's losses and tragedies evokes the fears associated with your own. Here's what you can do about it.
Touched by the Extraordinary
A "Sixth Sense" Primer: You Can Connect with Your Lost Loved Ones: A powerful new book by intuitive psychologist Susan Barbara Apollon builds a convincing case that we are eternal--and offers some proven ways to tap into "the extraordinary."
Intelligence Is Everything!
Every one of us possesses at least seven intelligences, says Gardner, a psychologist. According to Gardner: All human beings possess all nine intelligences in varying amounts. Each person has a different intellectual composition.
Unleash Your PowerZone
Unlike traditional IQ, with a century of research behind it, intuitive intelligence is a new concept. It is a different kind of intelligence. In recent years, it is gaining in respectability largely because psychologists are recognizing it as a natural mental skill that helps us make decisions, solve problems, generate creative and even forecast future events.
Albert Ellis
Obituary: Influential American psychologist who led the revolution in cognitive therapy.
Did Paris Hilton Have A Spiritual Awakening?
A controversial perspective of Paris Hilton and her spiritual awakening from her traumatic experience of going to jail as viewed by a spiritual psychologist.
Cycling: New Coach Puts Pendle to Metal
Britain's leading women sprinter, Victoria Pendleton, is set to reap the benefits of a new sports psychologist at the cycling World Championships in Mallorca, says Will Fotheringham.
A Personal Mission Statement
I don't care if it's your psychologist, your pastor, your rabbi, your parents, your doctor or your partner, your life-coach or your guru, don't let them define you. Don't let them write your personal mission statement for you.
What is Enlightenment Really
There is this word, enlightenment. Is there really a state of consciousness that is supreme where there is no misery or suffering? Have psychologists actually discovered this state of consciousness?
Living Well is the Best Revenge
This article is about an extraordinary divorce group that was led by a unique psychologist named Skylar Moon, and the moral of the story applies universally.
The Waist Land: Researchers Find Key to Beauty
A slim waist is a timeless, universal sign of feminine beauty, according to psychologists examining the works of romantic scribes over two millennia.
England Turn to Sports Psychologists
Cricket: England have turned to the sports psychologists, realising they must win the battle in their heads if they are to win the battle on the pitch.
Color Consultations - With Image Consultants For An Instant Slimmer Healthier Look!
Psychologists have suggested that color can account for 60% of the acceptance or rejection of any product or service and this includes the colors you wear. In fact, the colors you wear can make you instantly look slimmer and healthier!
MMPI-II Test
The MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), composed by Hathaway (a psychologist) and McKinley (a physician) is the outcome of decades of research into personality disorders.
How to Find the Best Counselor for You!
Finding a counselor can be confusing and frustrating. Want to enhance the odds you’ll have a great therapeutic experience? This article lists 6 no-nonsense features every person should look for when shopping for a counselor, psychologist, or psychiatrist to have a positive counseling experience.
Men's Faces Show Paternal Potential
Men's faces can reveal their interest in having children, according to psychologists who claim women subconsciously pick up on the subtle cues when choosing a partner.
Baby-learning Videos Lack Educational Value, Say American Psychologists
The phenomenally successful market in "baby genius" videos is under attack from American child psychologists, and the US government is considering forcing the companies who make them to withdraw claims that they help develop young children's intelligence.
Survival Tough for Blacks Behind the Cotton Curtain
Revealing looks inside the not-so-old cotton south were once offered by an anthropologist, social psychologist and journalist -- Hortense Powdermaker, John Dollard and Hodding Carter, Jr. (Photo taken at the old Brooks Farm, for several decades a successful cooperative farming community in the Mississippi Delta.)
'He Needs to Take It Very Gently'
Easing back into normal life will be crucial to Norman Kember's recovery from his kidnap ordeal, psychologist Dr Lesley Perman-Kerr tells David Batty.
Someplace Better Than Here
A schizophrenic mental patient and his psychologist are at conflict when it comes to the matter of an afterlife.
Off Their Box
If Big Brother's expert psychologists' main role is to help create scenarios likely to result in 'entertaining' - read abrasive - behaviour, should ethics compel them to quit the reality TV show, asks David Batty.
'I just love the whole life'
Horse Racing: I was talking to a friend of mine, who has embarked on a career as a sports psychologist, about the mental approach required for sustained success and we came on to the subject of racehorse trainers.
Golf: Els and His Right-hand Man
Failed Belgian pop singer Jos Vanstiphout has found an invaluable niche on tour as psychologist to Ernie Els, writes Lawrence Donegan.
Athletics: Sotherton's Silver Saves Collins' Day
Kelly Sotherton's European Indoor silver was a rare point of light during her sports psychologist's first day as UK Athletics performance director.
Collins Starts Long-distance Race to Win Over the Sceptics
Dave Collins is about to make his debut as Britain's performance director, but not everyone is over the moon about the psychologist's promotion.
Toy Tractors and Farm Toys - Made in Argentina
During the boom of the argentine toys’ industry in the 50s most of the tractor toys were made in tin and plastic, for its market was mainly the lower classes in the fields and small cities. Psychologists and Sociologists have proven right the theory which expresses the importance of toys related to the environment children are growing in Toy Tractors and Farm Toys.
Rugby Union: Preview of Gloucester v Stade Francais
Psychologists will have a field day when Pool 6 reaches its climax, says Michael Aylwin.
Survivors Face Years of Recurring Nightmares
Psychologists are warning that mental health problems caused by last week's tsunami could prove harder to resolve than the physical damage caused.
Athletics: Unknown Psychologist New British Athletics Performance Director
British athletics is set to spring a surprise by naming a virtually unknown psychologist as its new performance director.
Mike Averis Meets the England Cricket Team's Psychologist
Mike Averis meets the man responsible for turning Ashley Giles into a match-winning spinner.
The Narcissist's Object Constancy
According to the great developmental psychologist, Margaret Mahler, between the ages of 24 and 36 months of life, the infant is finally able to cope with the mother's absence (by finding appropriate substitutes to her presence). It knows that she will return and trusts her to do so time and again.
THE ENCHANTED SELF, That's Each of Us!
In my years as a psychologist, I have come to believe that most people seeking psychotherapy are unhappy. This is not only due to earlier hurts and traumas, as well as present frustrations and problems, but because they cannot access earlier happy moments often enough.
Animals 'can Think About Thought'
Monkeys can manage mathematics. Dolphins can be decisive. But US psychologists have broken new ground in the animal intelligence challenge. They have proved that animals are also smart enough to join the "don't-knows". It means that animals, like humans, may be capable not just of...
Pumla Gobodo-madikizela: I Have Forgiven Apartheid's Chief Murderer
Nicknamed 'Prime Evil', Eugene de Kock was apartheid's chief murderer. Now a psychologist from the townships says it's time to forgive him. She tells Rory Carroll why.
Laura Barton: This Week
It has been a week of putting one's finger on it. The fun started in earnest on Sunday, when the Observer's resident psychologist, Oliver James, devoted himself to discussing what gentlemen find attractive.
Interview: Ernie Els
Jim White meets the Open champion who has consulted a psychologist to cure his fear of the Tiger and says he is more than ready to defend his title at Royal St George's on Thursday.
For Some Professionals, a Change in Careers is a Step in a Positive Direction
One of the most significant ways to positively impact your life is a career change. According to Dr. Katie Miley, a clinical psychologist and head of the professional counseling program at Argosy University/Chicago Northwest, "often a radical life...
Trauma Support for Orbiting Crew
Psychologists have been called in to help the three-man crew of the International Space Station cope with their stress and grief in the wake of the Columbia disaster, as they remain lost in space with little prospect of rescue. The three astronauts - Americans Donald Pettit and Kenneth...
Trauma real for alien abductees
Abduction by imaginary aliens can be almost as traumatic as being caught up in real horror, according to US psychologists. The only difference is that when asked "would you go through it again?", most of ET's abductees replied: "Yes."
Bosnian Refugees Suffered Trauma in Uk, Study Shows
Bosnian refugees who were resettled in Britain after the Balkan wars suffered worse trauma than those who stayed behind in their war-shattered homeland, according to a study by a British psychologist. The survey suggests lack of supportive, social networks and the unfamiliarity of life in...
Narcissism in the Boardroom
The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often remote-diagnosed them as "malignant, pathological narcissists".
Italian Court Jails Briton for Ecstasy Smuggling
An appeal court in Trieste yesterday sentenced a 28-year-old Briton to three years and eight months' imprisonment for his role in Europe's biggest ecstasy smuggling operation. Alex Bruell, the son of a Hollywood psychologist and the London socialite Biba Hiller, plea-bargained a reduction...
Ecstasy begets empathy
Psychologist and drug researcher Dr. Charles Grob sees value in MDMA -- when it's taken in therapy, not at a rave.
Get a grip on anger, Clarke told
Scottish Open: As he continues his preparations for the British Open, Darren Clarke believes his sports psychologist could be the key to him winning.
Desperately seeking love - and a book deal
Shakespeare wrote that love is blind, but he was reckoning without Robert Epstein. The American psychologist has received more than 300 letters in response to his appeal for a woman to participate in an experiment in which he and the successful applicant will try to fall in love with each other.
What's wrong with Tiger Tim?
Tim Henman has been brought up too well for him ever to become a tennis great and needs psychological counselling to help him win a grand slam, say Britain's leading analysts. Television psychologist and author of Britain on the Couch Dr Oliver James said that many top tennis players...
Arrested Scot seen as hero in Bradford
James McLintock, the Scot arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of links with al-Qaida, was a hero in Bradford's Muslim community because of his exploits in Afghanistan fighting against the Russians. Dr Rasjid Skinner, a consultant psychologist who met Mr McLintock recently, said yesterday...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Society and Emotions
The ethnopsychologist George Devereux ("Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry", University of Chicago Press, 1980) suggested to divide the unconscious into the id (the part that was always instinctual and unconscious) and the "ethnic unconscious" (repressed material that was once conscious). The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
Cricket: Time for a sports psychologist for Indian Cricket
After their eighth successive defeat in a tournament final, it's time to hire a sports psychologist for the Indian Cricket team.
Unlike traditional IQ, with a century of research behind it, intuitive intelligence is a new concept. It is a different kind of intelligence. In recent years, it is gaining in respectability largely because psychologists are recognizing it as a natural mental skill that helps us make decisions, solve problems, generate creative and even forecast future events.
Albert Ellis
Obituary: Influential American psychologist who led the revolution in cognitive therapy.
Did Paris Hilton Have A Spiritual Awakening?
A controversial perspective of Paris Hilton and her spiritual awakening from her traumatic experience of going to jail as viewed by a spiritual psychologist.
Cycling: New Coach Puts Pendle to Metal
Britain's leading women sprinter, Victoria Pendleton, is set to reap the benefits of a new sports psychologist at the cycling World Championships in Mallorca, says Will Fotheringham.
A Personal Mission Statement
I don't care if it's your psychologist, your pastor, your rabbi, your parents, your doctor or your partner, your life-coach or your guru, don't let them define you. Don't let them write your personal mission statement for you.
What is Enlightenment Really
There is this word, enlightenment. Is there really a state of consciousness that is supreme where there is no misery or suffering? Have psychologists actually discovered this state of consciousness?
Living Well is the Best Revenge
This article is about an extraordinary divorce group that was led by a unique psychologist named Skylar Moon, and the moral of the story applies universally.
The Waist Land: Researchers Find Key to Beauty
A slim waist is a timeless, universal sign of feminine beauty, according to psychologists examining the works of romantic scribes over two millennia.
England Turn to Sports Psychologists
Cricket: England have turned to the sports psychologists, realising they must win the battle in their heads if they are to win the battle on the pitch.
Color Consultations - With Image Consultants For An Instant Slimmer Healthier Look!
Psychologists have suggested that color can account for 60% of the acceptance or rejection of any product or service and this includes the colors you wear. In fact, the colors you wear can make you instantly look slimmer and healthier!
MMPI-II Test
The MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), composed by Hathaway (a psychologist) and McKinley (a physician) is the outcome of decades of research into personality disorders.
How to Find the Best Counselor for You!
Finding a counselor can be confusing and frustrating. Want to enhance the odds you’ll have a great therapeutic experience? This article lists 6 no-nonsense features every person should look for when shopping for a counselor, psychologist, or psychiatrist to have a positive counseling experience.
Men's Faces Show Paternal Potential
Men's faces can reveal their interest in having children, according to psychologists who claim women subconsciously pick up on the subtle cues when choosing a partner.
Baby-learning Videos Lack Educational Value, Say American Psychologists
The phenomenally successful market in "baby genius" videos is under attack from American child psychologists, and the US government is considering forcing the companies who make them to withdraw claims that they help develop young children's intelligence.
Survival Tough for Blacks Behind the Cotton Curtain
Revealing looks inside the not-so-old cotton south were once offered by an anthropologist, social psychologist and journalist -- Hortense Powdermaker, John Dollard and Hodding Carter, Jr. (Photo taken at the old Brooks Farm, for several decades a successful cooperative farming community in the Mississippi Delta.)
'He Needs to Take It Very Gently'
Easing back into normal life will be crucial to Norman Kember's recovery from his kidnap ordeal, psychologist Dr Lesley Perman-Kerr tells David Batty.
Someplace Better Than Here
A schizophrenic mental patient and his psychologist are at conflict when it comes to the matter of an afterlife.
Off Their Box
If Big Brother's expert psychologists' main role is to help create scenarios likely to result in 'entertaining' - read abrasive - behaviour, should ethics compel them to quit the reality TV show, asks David Batty.
'I just love the whole life'
Horse Racing: I was talking to a friend of mine, who has embarked on a career as a sports psychologist, about the mental approach required for sustained success and we came on to the subject of racehorse trainers.
Golf: Els and His Right-hand Man
Failed Belgian pop singer Jos Vanstiphout has found an invaluable niche on tour as psychologist to Ernie Els, writes Lawrence Donegan.
Athletics: Sotherton's Silver Saves Collins' Day
Kelly Sotherton's European Indoor silver was a rare point of light during her sports psychologist's first day as UK Athletics performance director.
Collins Starts Long-distance Race to Win Over the Sceptics
Dave Collins is about to make his debut as Britain's performance director, but not everyone is over the moon about the psychologist's promotion.
Toy Tractors and Farm Toys - Made in Argentina
During the boom of the argentine toys’ industry in the 50s most of the tractor toys were made in tin and plastic, for its market was mainly the lower classes in the fields and small cities. Psychologists and Sociologists have proven right the theory which expresses the importance of toys related to the environment children are growing in Toy Tractors and Farm Toys.
Rugby Union: Preview of Gloucester v Stade Francais
Psychologists will have a field day when Pool 6 reaches its climax, says Michael Aylwin.
Survivors Face Years of Recurring Nightmares
Psychologists are warning that mental health problems caused by last week's tsunami could prove harder to resolve than the physical damage caused.
Athletics: Unknown Psychologist New British Athletics Performance Director
British athletics is set to spring a surprise by naming a virtually unknown psychologist as its new performance director.
Mike Averis Meets the England Cricket Team's Psychologist
Mike Averis meets the man responsible for turning Ashley Giles into a match-winning spinner.
The Narcissist's Object Constancy
According to the great developmental psychologist, Margaret Mahler, between the ages of 24 and 36 months of life, the infant is finally able to cope with the mother's absence (by finding appropriate substitutes to her presence). It knows that she will return and trusts her to do so time and again.
THE ENCHANTED SELF, That's Each of Us!
In my years as a psychologist, I have come to believe that most people seeking psychotherapy are unhappy. This is not only due to earlier hurts and traumas, as well as present frustrations and problems, but because they cannot access earlier happy moments often enough.
Animals 'can Think About Thought'
Monkeys can manage mathematics. Dolphins can be decisive. But US psychologists have broken new ground in the animal intelligence challenge. They have proved that animals are also smart enough to join the "don't-knows". It means that animals, like humans, may be capable not just of...
Pumla Gobodo-madikizela: I Have Forgiven Apartheid's Chief Murderer
Nicknamed 'Prime Evil', Eugene de Kock was apartheid's chief murderer. Now a psychologist from the townships says it's time to forgive him. She tells Rory Carroll why.
Laura Barton: This Week
It has been a week of putting one's finger on it. The fun started in earnest on Sunday, when the Observer's resident psychologist, Oliver James, devoted himself to discussing what gentlemen find attractive.
Interview: Ernie Els
Jim White meets the Open champion who has consulted a psychologist to cure his fear of the Tiger and says he is more than ready to defend his title at Royal St George's on Thursday.
For Some Professionals, a Change in Careers is a Step in a Positive Direction
One of the most significant ways to positively impact your life is a career change. According to Dr. Katie Miley, a clinical psychologist and head of the professional counseling program at Argosy University/Chicago Northwest, "often a radical life...
Trauma Support for Orbiting Crew
Psychologists have been called in to help the three-man crew of the International Space Station cope with their stress and grief in the wake of the Columbia disaster, as they remain lost in space with little prospect of rescue. The three astronauts - Americans Donald Pettit and Kenneth...
Trauma real for alien abductees
Abduction by imaginary aliens can be almost as traumatic as being caught up in real horror, according to US psychologists. The only difference is that when asked "would you go through it again?", most of ET's abductees replied: "Yes."
Bosnian Refugees Suffered Trauma in Uk, Study Shows
Bosnian refugees who were resettled in Britain after the Balkan wars suffered worse trauma than those who stayed behind in their war-shattered homeland, according to a study by a British psychologist. The survey suggests lack of supportive, social networks and the unfamiliarity of life in...
Narcissism in the Boardroom
The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often remote-diagnosed them as "malignant, pathological narcissists".
Italian Court Jails Briton for Ecstasy Smuggling
An appeal court in Trieste yesterday sentenced a 28-year-old Briton to three years and eight months' imprisonment for his role in Europe's biggest ecstasy smuggling operation. Alex Bruell, the son of a Hollywood psychologist and the London socialite Biba Hiller, plea-bargained a reduction...
Ecstasy begets empathy
Psychologist and drug researcher Dr. Charles Grob sees value in MDMA -- when it's taken in therapy, not at a rave.
Get a grip on anger, Clarke told
Scottish Open: As he continues his preparations for the British Open, Darren Clarke believes his sports psychologist could be the key to him winning.
Desperately seeking love - and a book deal
Shakespeare wrote that love is blind, but he was reckoning without Robert Epstein. The American psychologist has received more than 300 letters in response to his appeal for a woman to participate in an experiment in which he and the successful applicant will try to fall in love with each other.
What's wrong with Tiger Tim?
Tim Henman has been brought up too well for him ever to become a tennis great and needs psychological counselling to help him win a grand slam, say Britain's leading analysts. Television psychologist and author of Britain on the Couch Dr Oliver James said that many top tennis players...
Arrested Scot seen as hero in Bradford
James McLintock, the Scot arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of links with al-Qaida, was a hero in Bradford's Muslim community because of his exploits in Afghanistan fighting against the Russians. Dr Rasjid Skinner, a consultant psychologist who met Mr McLintock recently, said yesterday...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Society and Emotions
The ethnopsychologist George Devereux ("Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry", University of Chicago Press, 1980) suggested to divide the unconscious into the id (the part that was always instinctual and unconscious) and the "ethnic unconscious" (repressed material that was once conscious). The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
Cricket: Time for a sports psychologist for Indian Cricket
After their eighth successive defeat in a tournament final, it's time to hire a sports psychologist for the Indian Cricket team.