Can anyone qualified in psychology explain this?
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What is sexy is cultural. A man who lives around women who wear veils knows that beneath the veil is a beautiful mysterious woman.
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Gotta take a class. It's more of a parapsychology I believe that you are referring to, can't expect to come up with a complete paper or even an essay here, gotta do your homework.
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As an organized body of knowledge and objective investigation, psychology absolutely is a science.  Moreover, experimental psychology is one of, if not the most methodologically sound social science.  \n\nI agree that the statement above is extremely vague.  Also, there are certain types of behavior and mental processes that are more or less interesting to psychologists of different types (i.e. clinical, developmental, social, biological, environmental, etc.).  \n\nRegarding phenomena of interest, there is certainly great overlap between anthropology, sociology, economics, and other fields, but in no way does this justify questioning the legitimacy of psychology as a science.\n\nI would be glad to help the questioner (or the previous responder) clarify definitions or conceptualizations of the field if needed...
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Actually the name's been changed to DID, or Dissociative Identity Disorder. Good question, in that, it is a subject of great professional debate. The crux being, if the person truly has completely distinct multiple personalities, why do they often seem to know they have them before anyone tells them. If the personalities are completely distinct, then how do they know who each personality is ,and how they act before speaking to a professional. Generally, friends and family members wouldn't have the terms or knowledge to describe each personality to them. As of now. it's mostly seen as protection for an exceedingly weak ego, and many psychology professionals don't buy DID as it's been classically presented.
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Read this\nhttp://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/PTO-20030616-000002.html
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Your sense of logic is appealing. Or lack there of. :)\n\nI get what you get that others simply will never get becuase they feel there is nothing to get.\n\nGet it?
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It can help you to understand what factors influence us as humans and what specific factors have helped to shape us into the individuals we are currently.  I don't believe psychology is THE answer to all life's problems..and I don't think it's a cure-all.  (And I was a Psych major in college.)  It's just a tool to help discover oneself and offer potential solutions to problems.\n\nThe link below has some very interesting sites you can peruse.  Psychology is multi-faceted, so you may want to narrow your search to your specific area of inquiry.  Just check out the list to the right on that page.
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Wow! Can I have 10 points for actually trying to understand that?
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I have actually taken a psychology class that included dream explaination. Ok here it goes:\n\nRecurring dreams about the past often is your brain's way of trying to identify that feeling from that time or place. Possibly comfort, happiness, or something that you are missing in your life now. \nThe fact you are taking your family with you means that you don't want to give up what you have now but instead want to provide that same feeling for them...the safety or security or however that dream makes you feel.
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it means you have to take (and pass!) a certain number of credits of classes in your chosen major, including specific classes that are required. \nex: for my B.A. in psychology I had to take  20+ credits of required and elective psych classes in addition to all the regular classes like math, science, english, etc. you can take more than that, but not less.
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"Mental illness" is much to broad a term for an answer to be possible.  Some indeed may have a higher, rather than lower, level of consciousness than so-called normal people.  You never know, do you?  Not really.  You cannot know what is going on in anyone else's mind, and psychology does not gain my trust when it pretends it does know.
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i have a degree in psychology which is considered a behavioral science.  And it is suprisingly simple, and makes sense to most people.  We all know how we are, so yes it makes sense, the only thing that is questionable and always is...is why we do what we do.  Sometimes we know, sometimes we dont.  But new things rarely happen, and most things are understood to some degree or another.
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I hold a minor in psychology, and I have never heard that theory. But, if I had to posit a guess, using the key words "mature" and "dream" I would guess that it was Sigmund Freud, or one of his students. Try Carl Jung, or Anna Freud.
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I did not take this specific course in college however I have studied it extensively since I have been practicing. I honestly believe it supplies more answers than many of the theorist were able to provide.  It of course is used in conjunction with theories in practice but there is honestly an area you miss out if you don't cover it.  Try reading Molecules of Emotion, I can't think of the author, she writes in a way that is very down to earth and yet really explores the impact of emotion on neurochemistry.  From their it is easier to expand into the concepts of behavior.
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Huh? Could you please explain?
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A psychologist has a degree in psychology, as opposed to a therapist or counselor who MAY have a psychology degree, or may have some other type of degree.\n\nTherapy can be conducted by psychiatrists, psycholoists, social workers, certain types of nurses, ministers, rabbis, and in some cases, people with almost no education or training at all.
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I/O psychology? Yes, I thought about it myself and still may go back for the masters in this area.  Here is the short to your issue:  She needs to be evaluated based on a larger picture, more than a few variables. As you already know, the tests that you create to appraise someone CAN be very effective in assessing someone's internal abilities and how they relate to the job they have/or searching for. How about giving her another appraisal without cutting her completely from the staff?  Maybe recommend counseling?  I believe in human potential, the greatness within that lurks beneath the everyday pschological defenses and behavioral nuances.  Was she always like this?  Does she have potential?