According to the World Health Organisation (2025), autism, also known as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), is a condition consisting of diverse groups. Autism is characterised by difficulty in communication and social interaction, a typical pattern of activities and behaviours, difficulty transitioning from one task to another, and unusual reactions to sensations. Autism manifests differently across
Our emotions are complex psychological phenomena involving many physical and mental changes. They are integral components of human life because they significantly affect our choices and actions. Our emotions assist us in comprehending the world around us, too. They guide our actions and colour our life experiences. An important question that arises is what causes emotions, and
Relationships are an important part of our lives. Nowadays, finding a suitable partner is not easy. Still, many find their partners, but that’s not the end. Finding your partner is just the beginning. What matters is how well it goes further. We may have seen many relationships in our lives: our parents, neighbours, relatives, or
Factor Analysis is a statistical technique that makes the interpretation of data easy and understandable by reducing variables into smaller sets of variables. It helps to understand the complex variables of items and their hidden dimensions. Furthermore, it helps explain the complex interrelationship between different sets of variables. For example: Consider that a university administers 6
For decades, psychologists dominated the field with environmental theories that saw the human mind as a blank slate. Hans J. Eysenck, however, questioned this logic and argued that personality stems from biology and genetics (Eysenck, 1967). His Personality theory proposes that our patterns of behaviour are not learned habits at all, but represent the outward manifestations
The human dream state remained a mystical province for centuries, reserved for divine intervention. However, in this day and age, in modern psychology, especially for students at the crossroads between Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, dreams have been turned into a sophisticated cognitive exercise. The “language” of dreams is a complex synthesis where the primal energies
The developmental counselling and therapy (DCT) model is based on Piagetian concepts. Client functioning and help are provided by considering the levels of cognitive development along with the four parallel levels of development given by Jean Piaget. Developmental counselling and therapy focus on both aspects of growth and development, which are inter and intrapersonal. This
The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word Yuj, which means ‘to join’ or ‘to unite’. According to the Vedic scriptures, practising yoga unites an individual with universal consciousness, mind, body, and nature. Sadhana originated in the Indian Subcontinent thousands of years ago. The history of yogic practice is divided into four essential periods;
Until the 20th century, two competing views of depression dominated clinical understanding: the psychoanalytic one, where one took a stand as “anger turned inward,” and the behavioural one, where it was viewed as a byproduct of environmental reinforcement, the only plausible explanation of the phenomenon as the result of “our environment.” But in the 1960s,
The human mind looks a lot like a single powerful processor, but modern cognitive science tells us a very different story of a “divided” architecture. Under the Dual Process Theory, which now informs our view, our thinking, judgment, and behaviour flow from two completely distinct modes of thought. Known as System 1 and System 2,