Category Archives: Coping mechanisms

Emotions are partly derived from feelings. To explain how this derivation occurs I use a model of consciousness that is a traditional one: consciousness has three modes, those of will, mind, and feeling. Past variations on this model substituted action … Continue reading →

Why do people and animals experience emotions, and what makes us experience different types of emotions. Ian Heath looks at emotional states, the link between the sub-conscious and our feelings. The analysis of emotions has been ineffectual up till now … Continue reading →

How does our memory function? Find out the stages of remembering. An explanation of how we remember One popular theory of how we remember was proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin in 1968. It proposed that the human memory is … Continue reading →

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorised that our personality development is based on childhood events and labelled personality types such as analy retentive and oral. Discover your Freudian personality type with this test. PermalinkPrint  |   Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorised that our personality development … Continue reading →

Psychotherapy involves talking with a trained mental health professional, such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or counselor to learn how to deal with problems like anxiety disorders. Cognitive-Behavioral and Behavioral Therapy Research has shown that a form of psychotherapy … Continue reading →