reverse paranoia: pronoia
the phenomenon can be seen as a valuable asset, which you’re really fortunate to possess. But it can also be viewed as an affliction, with the potential to cause you much pain and sorrow -- psychologytoday.
Psychology
free association (psychology)
the expression (as by speaking or writing) of the content of consciousness without censorship as an aid in gaining access to unconscious processes -- wikipedia.
projection (psychology)
Request: when an individual unconsciously projects their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto someone else.
codependency
Priority request: Children who are raised to believe that their feelings aren't significant learn to live through other people's emotions, leading to codependent behavior... Some estimates suggest that over 90 percent of the American population demonstrates codependent behavior.
gambling addiction
Priority request: Something I struggle with. Maybe people here have friends and family members who also struggle, and thus this could bring understanding to the problem.
statement: the world is understandable
Request: At what point does this statement told true?
shadow work
Priority request: “Working with your unconscious mind to uncover the parts of yourself that you repress and hide from yourself” — betterup.com
reverse psychology
This technique relies on the psychological phenomenon of reactance, in which a person has a negative emotional reaction to being persuaded, and thus chooses the option which is being advocated against -- wikipedia
looking forward to dying
Priority request: Considering that we know death is nothing to fear and actually has no reality, is it an experience that we can look forward to, whenever it may come?
Plato’s tripartite theory of the soul
Plato divided the soul into three parts: the logistikon (reason), the thymoeides (spirit, which houses anger, as well as other emotions), and the epithymetikon (appetite or desire, which houses the desire for physical pleasures) -- wikipedia
Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale
Request: Used it for an academic research project. Everyone was testing high for self-esteem. Is it an effective measure of collecting self-esteem?
The Belief Code, by Bradley Nelson
Priority request: a brand new therapeutic system, and a way for us to get to the heart of what we're really believing about ourselves and the world, and which is actually driving our behaviour and determining our results in life.
anima and animus (Jungian archetypes)
Priority request: the male/female (opposite sex) aspect of the psyche that appears in dreams and guides the conscious self into union with the Self. In this way, it could be said to be similar to God Immanent.
Billy Milligan
In October 1977, he was arrested for three rapes... [in] his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with dissociative identity disorder. His lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it -- wikipedia
bipolar disorder
Request: According to Doc an genetic disease from which 1-3% of the population suffer.