Jeremy Griffith’s FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition attempts something much larger than an ordinary theory of personality or psychological disorder. Griffith proposes a biological explanation for what he regards as the central contradiction of human existence.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology is easier to misunderstand than to apply. Its vocabulary – gods, soul, images, underworld, personification and psychological polytheism, can create the impression that the practitioner’s task is to identify mythological figures concealed inside dreams and symptoms.
Archetypal psychology is the school of psychological thought most closely associated with James Hillman. Emerging as a distinct movement during the early 1970s, it developed out of Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology while also questioning several of Jung’s central assumptions.
In this article, we will understand the holonomic brain theory and contrast this with the holographic universe theory to see what these theories tell us about everything being connected.
In this article, we will explore the origins and development of self-worth theory, its main concepts and assumptions, and its implications for education, work, and mental health.
This article introduces the theory of gerotranscendence by Lars Tornstam, in it, we will understand the theory and it’s implications for our ageing populations and their support systems.
The four rules of misbehaviour are typically applied to children, but they can also apply to adults. Find out more.
In this article, we will introduce some of the major psychological theories that have shaped our understanding of human behaviour,
Most psychotherapies begin with the assumption that you have a stable “self” that has developed maladaptive patterns. Integrative Genomic Schema Therapy (IGST) starts from a different premise: what you call “your personality” may be a survival scaffold built over a pruned authentic self.
Schema theory emerged from early 20th century psychology, with foundational publications in the 1930s and formalization in the 1950s-1970s.
