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Examining applied ethics, moral psychology, and descriptive ethics

In the course of daily life, everyone will encounter a number of different situations, where they must use ethics to determine the right course of action. As a number of different ethical philosophies have been developed; to help people decide how to react to various issues they face.

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Viktor E. Frankl's psychology of concentration camp survival

In this book review, the author will deal with Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. The 1946 tome deals with Dr. Frankl's World War II experiences as a concentration camp inmate and his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to go on living. For Dr.

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Postimpressionism, psychology, and the 1938 War of the Worlds panic

Postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's sake spirit, while H.G. Wells debated that novels should be a sort of lecture, have morals, that they should affect the people who read them. What do you think on this? Which side do you take?

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Imaginal psychotherapy: Mansfield's four levels and Jungian depth psychology

The Imaginal (or imaginary) can be used effectively in psychotherapy but it can be mysterious and seemingly beyond the realm of understanding for a lay person. Still, there are scholars that have helped alert individuals find suitable definitions for this kind of therapy.

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Sigmund Freud's contributions to modern psychoanalysis and psychology

Sigmund Freud to the science and art of modern psychology. His frame is based on expanding humankind's knowledge of itself, and the systematic forces that influence day-to-day behaviors.

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Dissertation writing experiences: Insights from doctoral researchers in sociology and psychology

With the objective of achieving a wider perspective in dissertation writing, I have interviewed two doctoral-degree holders about their dissertation experiences. My respondent Jane* holds a doctoral degree in Sociology and for her, choosing the research topic is pivotal in research.

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In-group strength, individual psychology, and intergroup emotions

For decades, students of human psychology have studied the dynamics of individuals' perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and impetuses in groups.

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Legal and ethical issues in informed consent and professional psychology

The doctrine of informed consent arises in a number of questions in the legal profession, particularly as it relates to the refusal or acceptance of medical treatment. Three elements are required to validate decisions regarding medical treatment.

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David Ogilvy's approach to advertising creativity and consumer psychology

Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. Sir Allen Parker (Forward). London: Southbank, 2004. David Ogilvy's Confessions of an Advertising Man was first published in 1963, in a very different and less competitive media era.

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Joseph Campbell's "follow your bliss" and the psychology of happiness

Follow your Bliss," this simple epithet espoused by the mythologist Joseph Campbell is at the heart of any inquiry on happiness. Can a human being do anything else? or, as outside observers such as psychologists realize, do we seek things that make us unhappy? And why would we?

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