Human Thinking
What is Operant Conditioning?
This article introduces operant conditioning, a key part of our basic understanding of human behaviour and learning.
Art
Glossary of Hillmanian Thought: The First Ten Principles
This glossary is not arranged alphabetically. It unfolds conceptually. The sequence begins with soul, the perspective from which Hillman believes psychology should proceed. Part I of II
What are Coping Responses?
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Avoiding Self-Limiting Beliefs
Training the Ego: Avoiding Self-Limiting Beliefs
This is lesson thirteen of our self-mastery course, Training the Ego. In this lesson, we understand how to avoid self-limiting beliefs.
Core-Self Pruning
Training the Ego
Welcome to Training the Ego. This is your simple guide to understanding and becoming the person you want to be – your true self. I’ve tried to make it simple, so that anyone can read and understand it, yet the concepts here are incredibly powerful. And if used correctly, can lead an individual to true self-transcendence, where they have complete mastery of self in all its guises.
Organismic Self
Phenomenological Theory of Personality and Behaviour
Carl Rogers’ phenomenological theory of personality and behaviour forms the core of his person-centred approach, viewing the individual’s subjective “phenomenal field”, as the primary determinant of behaviour and growth.
Core-Self Pruning
The Developmental Truth of Childhood
Almost all children suffer a sustained and often targeted string of traumatic micro, and macro-aggressions, from the moment they are born.
Behavioural difficulty
Oppositional defiance disorder and conduct disorder
This article introduces oppositional defiance disorder and conduct disorder and discusses how impulse control is related to these emotional difficulties.