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What is clinical psychology?
The field of Clinical Psychology integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort as well as to promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal development. Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the life span, in varying cultures, and at [...]
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology includes the study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Central to its practice are psychological assessment and psychotherapy, although clinical psychologists may also engage in research, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony, and program development and administration. [...]
Dieting now makes you gain weight
If it’s January, then it must be time to diet, right? You’ve spent the past month at the buffet trough. Now every time you turn on the TV news you’re seeing that same person with a three-story midsection jiggling past, head discreetly out of the picture, an illustration of that same statistic: 63 percent of [...]
Dream Content Analysis
Introduction This paper tries to show, in a friendly way, why any theorist doing systematic empirical work to test his or her theory would do well to use the Hall/Van de Castle system of content analysis, and to take established findings with this system seriously. This is because the system is proven when it comes [...]
Tattoos Say About Who You Are
What Tattoos Reveal about Personality Psychiatrists from the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry studied 36 male inpatients, and found a link between tattoos and antisocial personality disorder. Further, these psychiatrists found that suicide attempts, substance abuse, and sexual abuse may be more common in forensic psychiatric inpatients with tattoos.
Cosmetic Surgery Addiction
Dr. Robert Guida, a Manhattan Facial Cosmetic Surgeon at the New York Center for Plastic Surgery, describes the symptoms and treatments for plastic surgery addiction. People who have a serious addiction to cosmetic surgery often have extremely poor body images, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Dr. Guida explains the warning signs, symptoms, and treatment for this [...]