Psychology Space

In 1961-62, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted some disturbing experiments. He asked subjects (participants) to give electric shocks to their partners whenever the partners answered questions incorrectly. As the voltage increased, the partners begged to stop — but experimenters told the subjects to continue. Sixty-five percent of subjects continued, even when their partners screamed in agony.

The partners were actors who only pretended to receive shocks; they faked their agonized screams — but the subjects didn’t know that. The experiments were criticized as being unethical. Yet many subjects thanked Milgram for revealing the frailty of human kindness.

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Industrial psychologists have studied how to match the personalities of workers with various jobs. One theory argues that people’s personalities can be described in terms of five traits, or qualities: outgoing, easygoing, responsible, stable, and open. Research shows that responsible, stable employees are valuable in any job. To succeed in jobs dealing with the public, workers must also be outgoing and easygoing.

Industrial psychologists have researched many other employment issues, from ensuring workplace justice to balancing roles at work and at home.

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Have you ever heard the term “stream of consciousness”? We use it to describe words that flow nonstop, following a person’s thoughts as they move freely from one topic to the next. The term was created by William James, who is considered one of the fathers of psychology.

With gentle guidance from skilled clinical psychologists, people can ride their stream of consciousness to surprising memories and insights. These memories and insights often play a key role in healing.

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Executive control may make you think of a boss who’s always looking over your shoulder. But in psychology, this term refers to an animal’s ability to control its own thoughts and actions. When you talk yourself out of eating an entire bag of cookies, that’s executive control.

Some psychobiologists are interested in the way we develop this ability as young children. In addition to studying the behavior of children, they look at images of their brains during experiments. These images suggest that certain areas of the brain are especially important when it comes to controlling our emotions and thoughts.

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If psychology interests you, you have something in common with the ancient Greek philosophers. They asked questions about the life of the mind: What is the relationship between mind and body? How can we tell if the world is really the way we think it is?

Today’s psychologists study all sorts of fascinating questions, such as the following: Why is learning a language as an infant easier than as a teenager? What are the roots of violence? What is the best way to help someone with an eating disorder like anorexia?

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If you’re like thousands of other high school students around the United States, you’re wondering just how exactly you are going to pay for college. You are not sure where to start sifting through the infinite amount of financial aid and scholarship information available, and that is totally normal.

The problem

But the quest for financial aid is a trap that more than 350,000 overwhelmed American high school students and their parents get sucked into each year. With the hopes of bypassing the financial-aid headaches and the never-ending and often confusing scholarship searches, some people turn to scholarship search services and seminars that guarantee scholarships in exchange for a fee. Sound too good to be true?

Most times, it is.

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Filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) may not be as fun as your graduation weekend, but it may be just as important. In order to be eligible for any type of federal grant or loan, you must complete the FAFSA.

The purpose of the FAFSA is to help the U.S. Department of Education and Financial Aid Administrators determine your eligibility for financial aid. You can get a FAFSA application from your library, high school, the college you plan to attend or online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.

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Wouldn’t it be great to get a part-time job or paying internship that directly relates to what you want to do with your life? But what if you’re not sure what you want to do with your life yet? What if you have to “settle” for a job at your nearby fast-food joint, department store or supermarket? Then consider yourself lucky.

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The Clinical Christ

Scientific and Spiritual Reflections on the Transformative Psychology Called Christian Holism

Charles L. Zeiders, Psy.D.

Published by: Julian’s House Birdsboro, PA

About the Author

Charles Zeiders is a Doctor of Psychology and a licensed psychologist. A Postdoctoral Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Cognitive Therapy and a Diplomate in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (NACBT), Dr. Zeiders has lectured nationally and internationally regarding the interplay of spirituality and health. Throughout his career, Dr. Zeiders has produced academic publications on the psychology of religion, taught psychology at the University level, and worked with patients in the midst of Christian spiritual transformation. In independent practice in the Philadelphia area, Dr. Zeiders chairs the Think Tank for Christian Holism.

About the Cover Art
The cover design depicts the Icon of Christian Holism. Atop the cross, the dove represents the Holy Spirit’s presence in the clinical situation, guiding and nurturing the clinical process so that therapy unfolds toward the patient’s healing in a state of grace. The cross beam depicts God creating Adam, alluding to the fact that, though fallen, human nature contains the image of God, and that the final aim of Christian Holism involves participating in the Spirit’s restoration of the Divine Image to every person who enters treatment. At the bottom of the cross, Freud represents the corpus of psychotherapeutic theory and practice—a body of knowledge that comes closest to truth and becomes authentically healing when surrendered to the power of the Holy Spirit. As a whole, the dove, creation, and Freud form the Cross of the Clinical Christ. Lord of Treatment, the Clinical Christ is the Sovereign into whose kingdom the practitioner of Christian Holism annexes all psychological theory and practice. On this cross, the Clinical Christ absorbs and destroys sin and psychopathology and radiates forth the restorative medicine of radical forgiveness and extreme sanity.

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