Description: If you have taken an introductory psychology course you have likely heard a bit about Freud’s psychodynamic theory and about his views on the subject of dreams and the manifest (surface) and latent (deep, symbolic) content he argued that they hold. The idea that dreams are “the royal road to the unconscious” (Freud), in… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Mindfulness
Improve Your Exam Performances by Thinking Metacognitively
Description: Think about the last time you went into an exam feeling like you had the material down tight and were going to do well on the exam. How did you actually do on that exam? If you did not do as well as you thought you were going to do going in what did… Read more »
Resilience: What makes us stronger?
Description: How is it that some people who experience traumatic events seem to do better in the long run than others? Decades ago Emmy Werner conducted a huge study on the island of Kauai in Hawaii (beginning in 1955) which ran for 32 years and which looked at the life experiences of every child born… Read more »
Resolutions? One More Time!
Description: Here were are again at the time of year where many of us feel compelled to make statements about how we want to live differently (and hopefully better) in the New Year. How do your resolutions usually work out? Well, if not so good, you are not alone. The data suggests that very few… Read more »
Mindfulness: Are There Limits to its Usefulness?
Description: If not in your introductory psychology class you must’ve seen somewhere in the media any number of suggestions about the fundamental importance of mindfulness or of being in the moment as a means of coping more effectively with the complexity of life in the world today. Have you paused to wonder whether mindfulness is… Read more »
Mindfulness and Stress: What To Do When End of Term Stress Hits Hard
Description: As the winter term ends and papers come due and final exams approach it is not surprising that student stress levels, already high, are spiking upwards. What sort of a discipline would psychology be if it could not provide its students with some good grounded advice about how to deal with the stress. The… Read more »
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