The child, from her birth, establishes an emotionally significant relationship with the person who cares for him, whose characteristics will have a determining role for the rest of their development. This ability of human beings has been one of the main subjects of study in psychology, however,...
Animals take care of their young when they are born to safeguard their survival and that of their own species. We humans do exactly the same taking care of our babies. The baby cannot eat if we do not provide food, does not look for water or flee from possible dangers. Needs to...
What do we mean when we refer to the mind? The term mind is commonly used to describe the complex of human faculties that more specifically refer to thought, and in particular intellectual, perceptual, mnemonic, intuitive and volitional. Although many animal species...
Many people, at work or in the private sphere, live under someone's overwhelming influence, perhaps without being fully aware of it, but they manifest recurrent symptoms: anxiety, fears, feelings of inadequacy, somatizations, insecurity. They often blame their own "excessive"...
Do you know someone who has reactions that you consider disproportionate? Does he get angry easily when you make a comment? Protest if the music is too loud or the light is strong? You may find yourself in front of a highly sensitive person (PAS). In this Psychology-Online article,...
Opportunity areas can refer to both the personal and work spheres. Some identify them with the details or parts of our personality, often seen as flaws, which become opportunities if they are seen as useful. Other people define them as those...
Paraphilias are an attempt to define what is "normal" or "abnormal" regarding sexual behaviors. Today we consider as something normal the fact that couples maintain varied sexual behaviors, the stimulation of the various erogenous areas of the body, sexual games and different...
Society is constantly changing and evolving. Technological advances and new discoveries influence our day to day and even in our decision making. We live in a globalized world, which implies a huge flow of information. We obtain this information easily and simply...
How to live a balanced life? What are the fundamental areas in life? The life of the human being is composed of several elements that are co-related. Each with its load of complexity and influencing each other, but all equally important. This article from Psychology-Online...
The term "attachment" is extremely popular and tends to be related to interpersonal relationships, but what is it really about? Given that the term is certainly related to interpersonal links and socio-affective behaviors in daily life, Psicologia-Online shares with you...
Surely, at some point it has happened to you that you could not stop thinking or talking about something. That something could be a series, a person, a activity… and they may have told you that you were obsessed. On the other hand, there are people with obsessive compulsive disorder and people with an obsessive compulsive disorder....
Some personalities need, to maintain their balance, to exercise a tight control over their surroundings: the company would collapse If they entrusted a director, the wife or husband would be lost if they were left to do the shopping alone, surely the children would get hurt if we did not check them...
You may know someone, or it may happen to you, who acts before you think. This can lead to a lot of problems as it may involve saying hurtful things to someone due to the emotion of the moment or even, in some cases, breaking an object and even physically injuring a person. All these...
The word pluviophilia means the ability to feel love for the rain and everything related to it. Generally, this filia does not imply a discomfort or any pathology. Although, it is true that in some cases, this feeling taken to the extreme can generate some discomfort when the weather is...
We are used to taking as a narcissist a person who praises himself a lot and finds it difficult to recognize his mistakes. However, although a person possesses certain narcissistic traits, this does not imply that he could be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. On many occasions,...
On a day-to-day basis, it is common to hear people calling other narcissists or even to see that there are people who consider themselves narcissistic but, Is this really so? What does narcissism mean? What is a narcissist? Are there several types? Can you be more or less narcissistic? How do I know if I am or if someone...
Personal identity is a complex and changing process that takes place from the very beginning of life and continues to develop throughout of all of it. Understood in the philosophical disciplines as "soul" it has been redefined as a personal identity from psychology. His study is extensive and has given...
What is it to be a narcissist? How do narcissistic people behave with their partner? Narcissistic people in love do not tolerate frustration, that is, they will not be able to accept the absences of the loved object. For example, you will not tolerate when you do not answer the phone, when you are not available...
Without wanting to, people are selfish by nature since, from the moment we are born, we tend to request a series of attentions for those around us. During the development of our personality, oriented actions become more or less present in our behavior....
Throughout our lives we come across hundreds or thousands of people with whom we establish a more or less lasting relationship, either of friendship, work or just cordial. However, these relationships are based on the intentions of both individuals. There are many people who try...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is characterized by a sense of grandiosity and excessive admiration for oneself, as well as of the need to be admired by others. These people tend to believe they are superior to others and, they think that, as a result, they have to be treated...
Perhaps for years we asked ourselves the cause of many behaviors of our own and others, attributing them immediately and almost unconsciously to emotions. We hold expressions like "she is like that", "he is very angry", "he has always been like that", "he is very angry"... We manifest dozens of similar but very...
Psychopathy is a dissocial personality disorder that has caused great community interest throughout history, both at the study as social alarm. Psychopaths have always been associated with great and cruel murderers, which is why both the media and fiction...
Like any theory that is proposed, it is important that we make use of our critical thinking, this means questioning ourselves from different perspectives what they propose to us, for example, asking us where the psychosexual theory comes from, who founded it, why he did it and when...
- What's the matter? - Any. - Come on, tell me what's wrong with you. - Nothing's wrong with me. - I know something has bothered you. - Really, nothing's wrong with me. - A Look of contempt runs over his face. How many of you does this situation sound like? How many times were we clear that something was happening to him, but he is only...
All of us are one of a kind. This statement is given by the difficulty or, rather, impossibility, of finding two people exactly equal to one hundred percent. But not only in what is physically equal, but also in qualities, capacities and abilities. But...
Anankastic personality disorder, also known as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, can affect social and labor to whoever presents it. That is why in Psychology-Online we want to explain what it consists of and what is the recommended treatment.
The avoidant personality disorder prevents the normal development of the life of the sufferer. If detected there is a possibility to treat it with the help of a psychologist, that is why from Psychology-Online we want to update you on this disorder so that you learn to identify it and know...
Probably most of us at some time had to hear from family or friends something related to the way we react to situations, without fully understanding what they wanted to tell us. Perhaps we frequently hear from others "what a bad attitude you have", "what an attitude...
Everyone has wanted at some point to be the center of attention, be it for the clothes they wear, for a feat they have accomplished or for thousands of more things. However, there is a type of people who constantly need to be the center of attention and cannot conceive that there is a person...
All people have been manipulated at some time in our life, both being conscious and without being it. However, there are people who They base their entire personality on manipulating the rest of the subjects around them. These are known as manipulators. Usually, psychologists relate...
Despite the fact that due to their personality, people may think that people with a narcissistic personality cannot fall in love, this is completely wrong. These types of people can fall in love just like other people, however, their concept of relationship and their needs...
How many times has someone promised us that they will change and do we trust that person? Do you manage to change or do you only modify your behavior during a while and later act as usual? But the most important question is: can people change? In Psychology-Online we will try to answer...
Living with a person who has a neurotic personality is extremely difficult. But the root of this difficulty is the absence of knowledge existing towards this personality pattern, as people tend to think that they are exaggerated people who worry about any nonsense. However, no...
Nowadays the term neurotic is used too easily and it is not strange to hear someone say: “Calm down, stop being so neurotic ”when someone is extremely concerned about a situation. However, what many of us do not know is that there are a number of people...
All of us have ever fallen into the traps and entanglements of manipulative people. And, to be honest, who hasn't been pissed off this situation? The feeling of feeling cheated and disappointed can be one of the worst anyone will ever know. Therefore, in Psychology-Online, we explain...
Day by day we have to live with multiple people who have a unique personality. Maybe we have to deal with very quiet people, with others very active, with others more mysterious. However, one of the personalities that presents the most difficulties when dealing with her is the aggressive one....
Thanks to the change in mentality of the society in which we live, it is more common to meet people who suffer from a personality disorder. However, despite increasing awareness of the existence of these disorders, it is very difficult to find guidelines and recommendations that help us...
I do not know if you have ever heard this expression, but it is very common that when someone is characterized by not having character, by having lack of initiative and due to difficulties in reacting or making decisions, he is told that he has “horchata in his veins”. Normally, when this phrase is said to someone,...
Before you start reading, I want to ask you a couple of questions: How many hours today have you been with people? And how many of them alone? Have you felt comfortable all the time that you have been with people? Or would you have preferred to spend more time alone? We live in a society in which...
