Psychology

This paper attempts to enumerate and describe some of the reasons individuals consume alcohol. It does not claim to list all of the many ...

Many great works of literature feature characters dealing with extraordinary circumstances in otherwise ordinary worlds. In a literary context, this is referred to as ...

One day on a routine trip to the office, unfulfilled LA Times writer Steve Lopez hears beautiful music coming from the distance.  Unable to ...

Child abuse is a widespread issue. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau reports that of the 860,624 children living in Oregon ...

Imagine waking up in the dark only to find that you are completely unable to move, unable to speak, and all the while there ...

Almost all of us are familiar with newscasts and newspaper reports showing returning US war veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan and the difficulties they ...

Comparable to the difficulties that come with discovering a treatment for physical illnesses, the choice of the most fitting form of treatment for mental ...

The symptoms of PTSD can be generated from all types of trauma (war, abuse, death, shock, etc.), so in a medical sense, the definition ...

Humans are at their most vulnerable and impressionable states when they are mere children. In this state, they are like an open book, in ...

Cognitive psychology is an important facet of psychology which has wide-reaching implications on diverse fields of study, such as “philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics…neuroscience,” ...