Contents1 Is There an Organismic Self?2 Goldstein: The Organism as an Integrated Individual3 Rogers Made an Important Distinction Between the Organism and the Self-Concept4 Rogers’ Incongruence Is Especially Relevant5 Neisser: The Ecological Self Exists Before a Conceptual Self6 The Ecological Read more
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
This article explains Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
This article introduces operant conditioning, a key part of our basic understanding of human behaviour and learning.
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
Psychological “flow states” are much easier to enter and sustain when the underlying organismic flow is relatively harmonious and supported.
The stomach is a stretchy, muscular bag in the upper part of your belly that acts as a mixing and holding tank for food.
