Is it possible to simulate the medical effect of pills by simply imagining taking one? A fascinating new study published in the journal Nature provides answers and could help to [...]
Psychological trauma refers to the lasting emotional and psychological impact resulting from distressing events or experiences. While trauma can be debilitating, individuals have the remarkable capacity to heal and recover [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
