1,088 words

Alfred Adler's birth order theory and personality development

It is ironic to consider that Austria would be the seat of so much ignorance and hatred leading into the start of World War II. Indeed, for many years prior, this would be a fertile context for intellectual achievement.

~6 min read

View paper →

669 words

Verbal threats and physical violence: linguistic and psychological patterns

Legal systems such as those used in the United States and Europe make a clear distinction in criminal law between what people say and what people do.

~4 min read

View paper →

2,940 words

Hermeneutical analysis of psychotherapy as a cultural artifact using metabletics

The world and the events that are contained therein are not static; everyone would acknowledge this as fact. A simple reading of history would say that this is so. Also, due to evolutionary variability, living things (animals and plants) have changed over the course of world history.

~15 min read

View paper →

1,832 words

Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875 in Switzerland, where he lived for the entirety of his life.

~10 min read

View paper →

537 words

Apuleius's Golden ass and post-Jungian psychotherapy for masculine integration

Jungian psychologists, and those who have followed them and constitute the much more loosely defined group of post-Jungian psychologists, have long found a rich source for clinical interventions in the realm of myth and fairy tale.

~3 min read

View paper →

2,262 words

Workplace communication effectiveness through Holland's personality theory

Different personality types, in combination with the typical stresses of a workplace, make effective communication an essential skill to develop. Yu (2010, p.

~12 min read

View paper →

865 words

Ontological and axiological assumptions in Levinson's developmental stage model

The ontological basis of Levinson's model is fundamentally a social constructivist model because he focuses on the ability (and even the necessity) that individuals have to make meaningful their own experiences.

~5 min read

View paper →

511 words

Social and psychological realism in Manet and Degas paintings

Nineteenth Century Paris in Cafe and Dance: A Social and Psychological Examination of the Works of Manet and Degas in the 1870s through the 1890s

~3 min read

View paper →

658 words

Stigma and underutilization of college career counseling services

However, you may be able to access this article under your organization's agreement with Elsevier.

~4 min read

View paper →

1,315 words

Optimism and pessimism as psychological traits in caregiving

Optimism and pessimism are considered to be a personality trait, rather than a mood. Personality traits can be distinguished from a mood traits because they are a static part of the persons being, whereas a mood is only a temporary condition.

~7 min read

View paper →