“Treatment relationship is a human relationship,” says Carolyn Saari. While considering a patient-therapist relationship, we have to look at it as a dual relationship, parties of which consistently and dynamically influence each other. While the patient may experience specific issues and difficulties that made him/her reach out for professional help and support, it is paramount to understand that …
Post-Traumatic Growth
Psychologists have long studied resilience— the ability to bounce back and move on. But post-traumatic growth, which has been documented in hundreds of studies, is different; it’s what happens when trauma changes and deepens life’s meaning – not everyone experiences growth after trauma. In recent years, psychologists have studied survivors of cancer, war, and terrorist attacks and found that …
Love & Chemistry
Love is a complex neuropsychological and physiological phenomenon. On a physiological level, people who fall in love experience an increase in heart rate, sweaty palms, heavy breathing and so on. Also, there are complex neuropsychological processes such as reward and pleasure activities, trust, attachment, which are known as limbic processes. From the evolutionary standpoint, all the above …