Schizofrenia

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Schizophrenia is a very serious psychosis, usually of a chronic type, that manifests in some young patients and is clinically characterized by signs of mental dissociation, affective dissonance and an incoherent, raving activity. It generally leads to losing contact with the exterior world and to bringing the individual to a state of degradation, both from a social point of view, as well as from a psychological and biological one, even… Read More

Sleep Disorders – Types And Treatment

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Sleep disorders are conditions that affect the normal sleeping patterns in humans or animals, which can, if manifested for a prolonged period of time, seriously affect one’s health and well functioning in a waking state.

Sleep disorders are usually accompanied by psychological dysfunctions (depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders etc.), but they may also come as a stand-alone dysfunction. In order to determine what type of sleep disorder a person has… Read More

Social learning theory

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Social learning theory has its roots in Albert Bandura’s experiments and studies and comes to explain the fact that learning is facilitated by social context and by the models presented in that specific social context. Ever since the 1960′s, Bandura discovered that individuals are being subjected to a quick learning process when exposed to a certain type of behavior.

NLP – Neuro-Linguistic Programming

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a behavioral model as well as a set of techniques and abilities, founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in 1976 with the purpose of creating new explicit models of human excellence. O’Connor & Seymour (1993) define NLP as “the art and science of personal efficacy”. The denomination of NLP implies three dimensions:

  • Neuro: any psychological process has a neurological substrate, our behavior being profoundly

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