Psychiatry and Psychology

Is there any true way to increase the eidetic memory,something like tecnique you should do every day and practise that every day continiously?

Want to start an open discussion on empowerment theory applied in therapy.

How do you treat symptoms of systematic attack on the normal development of feelings of personal power and agency in Moderate to severe forms of PTSD/C-PTSD?

How do you help someone who seems to take every "funny" look and every word as a personal insult? How do you help someone who behaves as if all of reality was designed to hurt them personally and is always completely disgusted by it? How do you help someone who shouts at you for no reason but then comes down on you for "tone of voice" afterward? How do you help someone like that if they are your spouse and parent to your children? How do you help someone who seems hell bent on self-sabotage and refuses to take their medication through endless excuses and who can only listen to anything constructive by making you admit to some fault that is actually an…

This topic has come up before in different threads, for reasons not hard to understand: https://www.scienceforums.net/search/?q=Dunning-Kruger&quick=1 And there's at least one thread dealing with it: Just a quick definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect A visual aid: My idea is that the topography of this curve is more complicated than it looks in the qualitative graph above. My question: Are there more bumps along the curve? How can we be sure we're past the danger zone? Is there any reliable self-test? How can you be sure you're not being "arrogant" like any run-of-the-mill crackpot, or in a mi…

Working memory has been found to be strongly predictive of intelligence. From Schneider and Niklas "Intelligence and Verbal Short-Term Memory/Working Memory: Their Interrelationships from Childhood to Young Adulthood and Their Impact on Academic Achievement" (2017): The chimp test is known to measure working memory. I tried the chimp test on humanbenchmark and got a score of 13 which corresponded to the 88.7th percentile: I figure people who have played chess for a long time can also use their ELO scores as a measurement of how smart they are. I have been playing chess for 13 years and my ELO on LiChess corresponds to the 77th percentile: Ave…

What color of light would you prefer for street lightning and what color is the best for human eyes and psychic? Currently they replace high and low pressure sodium lams which produce light of orange-yellow color with LED lamps in many countries. Some people complain harshly about that. I think light color of LEDs can differ from city to city. In my city they are of yellowish white color mostly. Personally I dislike orange light produced by sodium lamps and almost comfortable with LEDs. Some studies claim LED light is harmful to eyes. I think ideal color should be something similar to Moon light (pale yellow) or closer to incandescent lamp light for general street lightni…

Do you have any recommendations for books about psychosomatic medicine and psychiatry, specifically on the history of treatments? Clinical textbooks are more than welcome too, if you know of some. (I'm someone who's just really curious about this part of medical history, I don't actually work in mental health.)

An interesting study targeting gender bias, but potentially has relevance for other group biases as well. Researchers looked whether gender bias exist in jobs with high representation of women by asking folks to evaluate a performance review. The reviews were identical but one group had a female and another had a male name. Effectively male names were evaluated higher resulting in an 8% increase in salary over their female counterparts. Strikingly reviewers who were more certain that bias does not exist in their field, were more likely to be biased against women. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/26/eaba7814 It would be interesting to extend this study t…

Psychologists/ psychiatrists who have heard of tulpamancy, what do you think of it?

I have come to the conclusion that psychiatry either does not exist or should not exist. It should not exist because it does more harm to the patient than good. Far too often a relatively normal individual with minor symptoms is diagnosed as crazy by an overzealous psychiatrist without objective diagnostic tools. The patient then takes meds that alter behavior and physiological function, as well as tarnishing his relationship with family and friends even. Psychiatry also should not exist because everyone has a right to their narrative of events; if a guy thinks his ex is stalking him or something along these lines, his narrative might be correct. A psychiatrist is in…

Hey guys, I wanna start studying psychology as a hobby and I want some advices to a good, effective and fun way to do that (name a good book for begginers, ytb channel, a habbit, personal exp, ...) Thank you!

Hey, I was wondering what exactly the evolutionary origin of religion/a believe in god is. I have heard one argument that stuck with me. Individuals that believed a sound in the bushes would be a deadly snake or leopard or any other predator would have ran immediately versus individuals that didnt believe that would have been eaten a certain percentage of times. Thereby evolution would have favored individuals that easily believed.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-would-happen-if-everyone-truly-believed-everything-is-one?utm_source=pocket-newtab So in reality there is no such thing as people? Yes everyone is all one person base on what those researchers are saying? So everyone on earth and the way people behave are just the thought of the maker? And what the researcher are saying we are all one. And we are nothing more but parts of the maker?

Unlike other combat sports, MMA involves a variety of striking and grappling techniques focused in almost every part of the opponent's body, therefore the physical damage dealt and taken by these athletes comes in a wide range of qualities and intensities. High profile MMA fighters develop an outstanding physical pain tolerance and pain coping strategies which gradually modify their attitudes towards physical pain, making them less likely to catastrophize or mishandle pain experiences. Given this context, having a deeper knowledge on fighters attitudes towards physical pain may be useful in developing more effective non-pharmacological pain management interventions. Curre…

Hi This may sound an odd question for a psychology thread but I am trying to reach out and ask this. I am creating custom levels for a game called rocks and diamonds, which is a sort of maze, diamond collecting game I am writing about this on my blog at link deleted My question is that if I design complex levels does this have a different psychological effect compared to really simple levels. So within my level set if I created say 5 really complex levels, is there any psychobiological benefit to throwing i the odd really simple level, that is quick to complete. I am asking this as perhaps the brain acts in a certain way if you're involved in he…

When it comes to the criminal justice system, there are two general attitudes with which we can approach the situation: The first is to favor punishment. This involves inflicting concentrated and state-sanctioned suffering onto the offender (either through imprisonment, fines, or corporeal punishment such as state-sanctioned floggings, canings, or executions). The idea, here, is that the pain will, after the punishment concludes, cause the offender to not commit the offensive conduct in the future out of fear of enduring that suffering in the future. Punishments that never conclude, such as life in prison or the death penalty, are designed to scare people into not committ…

This is not a universal aspect of human psychology, but it is nonetheless an observable phenomenon. When somebody feels strongly enough about their own belief, no matter how subjective that belief is, it is not at all uncommon to see people treat their beliefs as objective fact. Not only that, but anyone who disagrees with their opinions will be subject to ridicule as if they were a flat earth theorist. At least flat earth theorists are disagreeing with us on an issue of objective fact. Those who hold hyper-passionate opinions will often treat dissenters like they (A) are being willfully obtuse just to troll others, (B) have such low levels of intelligence and/or suc…

I was watching a video about someone who judged AI-created maps for a competition. These maps are quite large and he spent multiple days to review all participants. My question: What method of judging is most impartial? First reviewing every map, followed by short revisits (possibly helped by notes) and then scoring the maps. Or reviewing and scoring each map , one after the other (like how a lot of Olympic sports are scored). Or some other method, of course. I understand that there is no research about minecraft map judges, but I was wondering if there is any research into specific ways that lead to more impartiality/fairness (if you can even measure/determine th…

When you think will first drugs to repair damaged brain hit the market?

When I was young pop would accuse me of only being able to hear what I wanted to hear.I didn't agree with him yet age has me facing circumstances sometimes I can't seem to see! It usually happens when I have a question and need to make a decision in the moment it's always something simple, but then after having made the wrong decision and changing perspective, well there it is why couldn't I see it when it mattered. I asked a question earlier and wasn't sure where to put it. But all I had to do was change devices then there the category was . Is there a psychological reason as to why I couldn't see the medical category the first time?

What kind of changes occur in the brain due to psychosis/schizophrenia? Is there actual loss of neurons and damage to white matter tracts? If yes, can similar permanent brain changes occur due to milder psychiatric diseases i.e. depression/anciety or bipolar?

What are some potential pathways towards reversing structural deficits in the brain that are responsible for lack of empathy/inability to bond with other people, oresent in psychopathic individuals?

can you say me it Heard it was dangerous to take with depression.

Hello, I'm new to the forum so i'm not sure if this is the right place to post. I need some help with a large research project that I want to conduct, but I do not know how to start it. The research project deals with the idea that Video Games can increase cognitive brain function and/or help with learning. I've done research, but experimenting would be a large portion of this project. If anyone has any ideas for how I could conduct these experiments, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,