Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. Having good mental health helps us live a relatively happy and healthy life. Strong mental health isn’t just the absence of mental health problems. Rather than the absence of mental illness, mental health refers to the presence of positive…
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Antidepressants are medications that help relieve symptoms of depression, social anxiety disorder, anxiety disorder, and dysthymia. When the level of chemicals in the human brain deteriorates, it causes changes in mood and behavior. Antidepressants increase the level of chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters. Some neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and noradrenaline, are associated with mood…
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Anna Freud was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She was the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud. She was the founder of child psychoanalysis and also made fundamental contributions to ego and adolescent psychology. Anna Freud was the first therapist in the world who systematized child psychology, providing us with psychological techniques and methods to treat children and…
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Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist who founded and developed Analytical Psychology, a theory of mind that emphasizes the importance of wholeness for each individual. Jung also developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Archetypes are images and themes which have universal meanings across cultures which may…
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Hypnosis is a sleep-like situation of a person in a hypnotic trance. The person does not aware of his or her surroundings and environment during the hypnotic trance. The word ‘hypnosis’ was first proposed by James Braid (1795-1860) and the practice of it dated back to Sir Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). Mesmer experimented on his…
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