Psychology has trouble reaching the masses in an understandable way. The bulk of society continues to confuse personalities and mental disorders. People are still staying things like, "I feel like a schizo" or "I'm so bipolar". Personalities can indeed...
The primary characteristic of factitious disorders is faking psychological or physical symptoms or purposely causing them. Doctors diagnose it through simple direct observation or through a process of elimination. In many cases, however, it is still controversial because it's impossible to...
Cannabis isn't just the most highly consumed illegal drug in the world. It's also one of the drugs with the most myths about what it does to your mind and body. The Spanish Observatory of Drugs and Addiction says that...
The label "shock therapy" encompasses therapies that are actually quite different from each other. What they have in common, as the name implies, is that they have a significant impact. We are talking about a stimulus that is capable of producing...
Unfortunately, humankind has been afraid of mental illness throughout its entire history. In many cases, it was because we didn't understand them. The search for explanations (paranormal, scientific, or religious), investigating treatments, improving the life of the people affected by...
Antipsychiatry is a controversial movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One of its main inspirations was the Hungarian psychiatrist Tomas Szasz, who was also a professor at the University of Syracuse in New York. However,...
Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder has been controversial and not all existing diagnostic classifications include it. It's not that its existence isn't recognized, but sometimes it has been considered to be a depressive disorder with secondary anxious characteristics, and not one...
Many mental disorders have their root in suffering. More specifically, in the meaning we give to it. What's most interesting about this is that it's not theoretical. Actually, it's part of a psychological technique called logotherapy. It focuses on the meaning...