SUCCESS IN LIFE – The Art and Science of creating good luck (Guest: Professor Dr Christian Busch)
What makes people "successful" in life? For decades, researchers have been trying to answer this question in numerous studies. In the process, they have indeed come across some personality traits [...]
SYSTEMIC THERAPY: It is not the INDIVIDUAL who is the problem but the SYSTEM!
It is not uncommon for an individual's mental illness to be "doctored", although the cause and maintenance of the problem can be traced back to the system (e.g. family, school, [...]
Do not SHOUT and SCREAM: Do This.
Educational psychology: are there effective alternatives to "yelling and scolding"? A recently published meta-analysis, in which quite a few studies were summarized and analyzed, provides impressive evidence: Leijten, P., Gardner, [...]
New Anxiety Healing Method? – Is Visual Schema Displacement Therapy better than EMDR?
Does Visual Schema Displacement Therapy actually work better than EMDR? __________________ Studies: Lewis, C., Roberts, N. P., Andrew, M., Starling, E., & Bisson, J. I. (2020). Psychological therapies for post-traumatic [...]
Is inflammation causing Depression? And this is what you can do about it..
For decades, scientists have been searching for differences in the bodies of depressed and healthy people. For many years, however, the hoped-for breakthrough failed to materialize. However, a flood of [...]
Study: Less Anxiety and better Grades with a pill that does not exist…
Can we simulate the medical effect of pills by just by imagining taking a pill? A fascinating new study published in Nature (Buergler et al., 2023) provides answers and could [...]
Without medication: The best therapy for sleep disorders (+ studies).
Many people who suffer from sleep disorders try to force themselves to sleep by taking sleeping pills. In doing so, they accept the side effects of medication, although there is [...]
GET RID OF ANXIETY (permanently!) with this simple trick. (+studies)
The research is clear: the more we embrace fear (exposure, confrontation), the more it will release us from its grip. But how can therapeutic anxiety confrontation be made even more [...]
5 manipulation techniques requiring only one phrase. (+studies)
Psychologists (especially social psychologists) have been researching manipulation techniques for decades. It is becoming increasingly apparent that sometimes it only takes a single phrase to increase the likelihood that another [...]