The American Maultsby developed five rules to determine whether a thought is healthy…
Ten thinking errors that make people depressed
In “The Feeling Good Handbook,” American psychologist David D. Burns describes how the mind…
Children naughty due to strict punishment
When parents often punish harshly, their children become rebellious, disobedient and aggressive – but strangely enough…
Development of friendships
Psychologists Altman and Taylor developed an important theory in the early 1970s about…
Depression and social competition theory
In social competition theory, mood plays an important role. A negative mood occurs in people who cannot win a social conflict and refuse to accept defeat. Besides the identifiable loss, the social relationship, the hierarchy, also changes. We have difficulty surrendering to the new social relationship. […]
Client-centered psychotherapy and change
Client-Centered Psychotherapy and Change In their book "Psychotherapy and Personality Change," Rogers et al. describe changes in clients during and after client-centered psychotherapy. Changes were measured in the convergence of the (current) self-image to the self-ideal. Research has shown that at the beginning of therapy, the difference between the self-image and the ideal is significant. […]