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Can Envy Be Healthy?
Envy gets a bad rap. I mean, let’s be real: being on a list of “seven deadly sins” isn’t good PR for anyone. Fortunately, psychologists aren’t always the types to judge a sin by its cover, and research into this most human of emotions has found that envy might actually have a good side. To…
Read MoreHeaded for Burnout? Watch for these Top Signs
Burnout doesn’t just mean being tired, or stressed out, after a long day or before a big deadline – occasional stress is a normal part of a busy and healthy life. Burnout syndrome is a psychological term that refers to long-term exhaustion and diminished interest in work, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information,…
Read MoreHistory of Psychology (387 BC to Present)
Timeline of Psychology 387BC: Plato suggested that the brain is the mechanism of mental processes. 335BC: Aristotle suggested that the heart is the mechanism of mental processes. 1774AD: Franz Mesmer detailed his cure for some mental illness, originally called mesmerism and now known as hypnosis. 1793: Philippe Pinel released the first mental patients from confinement…
Read MorePsychotherapy Facts
What exactly is therapy? Therapy is actually a generic term applied to the application of any technique used to improve a person’s physical or mental health functioning. We are using the term on this site as synonymous with psychotherapy, which is the application of techniques aimed at improving a person’s mental, social, and interpersonal functioning.…
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B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner 1904-1990 Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born in a small Pennsylvania town. His father was an attorney and his mother a housewife. His family life was described as old-fashioned and hard working. Skinner received his Bachelor’s degree in English in hopes of becoming a writer. He wrote for the school paper but saw…
Read MoreHenry A. Murray
Henry A. Murray 1893 – 1988 Henry Murray taught at Harvard University for over 30 years and like his psychoanalytic predecessors, Freud and Jung, he believed that personality could be better understood by investigating the unconscious mind. He is most famous for the development of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a widely used projective measure…
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961 Born in Kesswil, Switzerland, Carl Jung was trained as a psychiatrist after receiving his M.D. from Basel University. He then began research on psychoanalytic techniques and theories such as word association and began correspondence with Sigmund Freud in 1906. The two men met a year later and eventually presented seminars…
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Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis 1913 – Ellis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. He taught for several years at Rutgers and then entered private practice in 1950. He is best known for the development of Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET), which contradicts the Freudian view of mental illness and states emotions…
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Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson 1902-1994 Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany and studied psychology under Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud’s daughter) at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. He moved to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 1939 where he taught at several major universities including Harvard, Yale, and the University of California at Berkley. He…
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Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler 1870-1937 Alfred Adler was born in Vienna Austria as the second of six children. Much of his career was molded from childhood experiences, particularly an incident when he was only five years old. Diagnosed with pneumonia, Adler overheard his physician tell his father that he doubted Alfred would recover from his illness. At…
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