Mental and behavioural disorders (669 contents)
Adult personality and behavioural disorders (23 contents)
Hot weather dangerous for the psyche!
Heatwaves are not only a threat to physical health, they also have serious effects on the psyche. It is worth understanding how the heat can affect our wellbeing and what steps we can take to protect...
How does the gender reassignment process work?
Many transsexual people decide at some point in their lives to undergo the process of gender reassignment. It goes without saying that this is a lengthy and rather complicated process, but there are...
Foot fetish. What causes it?
Podofiliato is a variant of fetishism involving sexual arousal during contact with one's partner's feet. Many hypotheses have been developed over the years about this type of fetish.
Drama kings - histrionic personality disorder
Every one of us has met this type of person. Always wanting to be the centre, loud, provocative, wanting attention at all costs. True, they can be annoying at times, but to some extent the world is...
The use of virtual reality in the treatment of psychotic disorders
The treatment of psychotic disorders is typically associated with pharmacotherapy. Indeed, medication plays a fundamental role in the treatment of psychosis, however, it is not the only way to...
Propensity to gamble - does gender have an impact here?
Addictions of all kinds, including gambling addiction, are inextricably associated with men. It is mainly men who are attributed with the tendency to these behaviours, while women are treated...
Bullying may increase the risk of psychotic disorders
The fact that bullying by peers in childhood increases the risk of, among other things, depressive or anxiety disorders in the future has been reported for some time. However, researchers at the...
Blocking oxytocin receptors as a potential treatment for social anxiety
Oxytocin is both a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It exerts many different effects in the body, among others it is associated with the emergence of empathy in humans, in addition to which oxytocin...
Autophobia - an extremely expressed need for social life?
Each of us has a greater or lesser need to live in society. Even if we choose to live alone, whether out of a need for total independence, the inconstancy of where we live, or because of previous bad...
Pathological desire to amputate one's own limb: apotemnophilia
Apotemnophilia is a rare and extremely emotionally charged psychological disorder involving a patient's desire to amputate their own limb. Despite the passage of many years since the first...
Good old sex
The sexuality of older people is a taboo subject. There is an assumption in our culture that children and older people do not have sexuality, and consequently there is little scientific data on the...
Does sex addiction exist?
This text summarises the current knowledge about so-called sex addiction. It is a rather controversial issue and not generally included in disease classifications, yet clinicians encounter patients...
Mental health co-morbidity: one patient, many problems
Just as a patient with diabetes may have heart or liver failure at the same time, a person with depression may also suffer from other mental illnesses or disorders - a condition known as comorbidity....
What is humanistic psychotherapy about?
Historically, humanistic psychotherapy was supposed to be a completely new proposal, which was created in opposition to the currents used before. It was even referred to as the "third force in...
