What are Coping Responses?
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Peak Growth
Peak Growth
This article describes a state of peak growth, or learning, which can be attained as part of an individual’s self-transcendent journey.
Abraham Maslow
Psychological theories
In this article, we will introduce some of the major psychological theories that have shaped our understanding of human behaviour,
What is Cognitive Bias?
What is Cognitive Bias?
Cognitive bias is the mind’s built‑in tendency to think in certain predictable, skewed ways instead of purely logically.
False-Self
Independent Self and Interdependent Self
Although Rogers wrote mainly about the real self and ideal self, the terms independent self and interdependent self come from later “self‑construal” research in cultural psychology
Childhood Trauma
Defence-based Behavioural Patterns of the False-Self
In this article, I will try to flesh out the behaviour that is embodied within the phrase; “an ego-bound” individual. That is, an individual that projects themselves via a mask of false self behaviours, designed to cover up their inner sense of lacking or inability, that hides their secret belief that they are irretrievably broken. The term ego-bound, specifically, refers to someone that has largely “become” that mask, and considers it to be part of their authentic individuality.
1D Thinking
Inverse Compartmentalisation
It could be said, that clarity and transparency is the enemy of fraudulent, incongruent, and imbalanced organisations, and that inverse compartmentalisation is their favourite tool to achieve the opposite.
Organismic Self
The Inner-Supporter to Inner-Critic Transition
Within parts working, there is the concept of the inner-critic. This is the source of internal self-criticism, and often seen as a source of depression and a pessimistic outlook. In this article, we suggest that this inner critic, was once an inner-supporter, that became rejected and dissociated into take on that oppositional role.
Authenticity
Self-Reflection
This article covers the science behind the practice of self-reflection. Each theoretical model that supports the practice is teased out.
Core-Self Pruning
Self-integrity
This article discusses the concept of Self-Integrity, and how that relates to other concepts of personality and self-awareness.