The History of Psychology and The Formation of Psychology as a Science The subject of general psychology is the characteristics and mechanisms of functioning of the psyche. In the process of formation of psychology as a science occurred a number of changes in the subject of psychology. History of Psychology – The First Stage. Antiquity - the [...]

Treatments For Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Psychologists have noted that Western technological society is replete with people whose identity is focused on the problem of “thinking and doing”. Our collective psychology is still imbued with the pathos of idealizing reason and faith in progress as a result of human actions, which differs thinking of the Enlightenment. The [...]

Women Psychology. Theory and Concepts. The model of women psychology, proposed by psychologists Jean Bake Miller and Carol Gilligan, was developed in the early 1980s. It is based on a thorough understanding of the importance of relationships with people in the lives of women of all ages. Every year a large number of specialists – psychologists [...]

Emil Kraepelin is considered the father of modern diagnostic classification, where he tried to study those who suffer from emotional disorders and disturbances in thinking, in order to identify common symptoms and general characteristics. In addition, he developed a theory of their cause, allocating treatable and incurable illnesses. It is interesting that he included a [...]

The psychological development of women In the 1970’s in psychology and psychotherapy along with ongoing publications in traditional concepts – psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, behaviorism – there are new materials and approaches: psychologists, psychotherapists have begun to investigate the influence of the sex factor in the psychological development of women. They were divided in 2 groups, [...]

Numerous psychologists revealed important features of the relationships that determine depressive patients with family and friends. First of all, from the perspective of a psychologist this is the role of the early and repeated losses. Since then, as the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud identified the source of depressive dynamics in the painful experiences of [...]