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“Look in my eyes. I said in my eyes!”: Antecedents and Consequences of (Self-) Objectification

... theory: Toward understanding women's lived experiences and mental health risks. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21, 173-206. ... and Internalization of Standards of Beauty in Eating Disorder Symptomatology: A Test and Extension of Objectification ... / more

When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness

... alcohol. Nevertheless, could failure and suicide form a mental association, such that when we fail, suicide comes to mind more easily? ... Development and validation of a multidimensional Eating Disorder Inventory for anorexia nervosa and bulimia. International journal ... / more

Depression as a spiritual journey

... assumes many shapes. Whether it is physical, emotional or mental the ensuing results would be either an utter anger and bitterness, or a ... Hospital, England, and was herself afflicted with this disorder. Her book accentuates a positive approach to the perception of ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... ( Schmeichel, Vohs, & Baumeister , 2003). To be sure, some mental functions remained intact, but those requiring controlled processes such ... to the mean (as in, quick drift back into randomness and disorder), self-organization has a ratcheting effect of staying in place ... / more

Always on the Move: How Residential Mobility Impacts Our Well-Being

... living in big cities are prone to chronic stress and poor mental health. Does the above scenario sound familiar? Perhaps you ... more likely than male movers to report symptoms of mental disorder . This pattern held whether the relocation was voluntary or ... / more

How the Body Knows its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel

... posture leads to control over maladaptive, counterproductive mental states. While those who are already experts in the field of embodied ... in clear prose. At several points in the book she describes disorder as a way of understanding how the body-mind connection works, and I ... / more

Adverse Childhood Experiences and its lifelong consequences

... such as a child who is abused by a divorced parent with a mental illness. What’s the role of stress? You can imagine that one ... problems such as depression , post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety disorders (Anda et al., 2006; Chapman et al., 2004; ... / more

In Defense of Anger: An Evolutionary Necessity and its Contemporary Applicability

... it is. In fact, Sprenger et al. (2012) showed that mental distraction relieves pain through the use of endogenous opioids, so it ... of those individuals with schizotypal personality disorder, who seem to lack emotion, but also don’t have the outward charm of ... / more

Bad day? How it can seem even worse for some

... People often believe that if they aren’t diagnosed with a mental health disorder then they are safe from the consequences that come along with mental ... / more

Fake Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Costs Real Money

As a diagnosis, Posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) rests entirely on what people report about their symptoms. ... total number of US veterans receiving compensation for a mental disorder , 75% are compensated for PTSD and this percentage tends ... / more