Going Beyond The Mo: Criminal Profiling, Jack The Ripper And Signature Behavior

The primary aim of criminal profiling is to reveal the behavioral make-up of an unknown offender. To understand how this can be achieved, this article draws upon Robert Keppel's analysis of the Jack the ripper murders in order to examine the concept of signature behavior and how this differs from the offender’s Modus Operandi.

The Emerging Science of Positive Psychology

Positive psychology emerged because of a growing need in society, which traditional psychology was not addressing, i.e. becoming excellent.

Children, War, and Terrorism

“You better run for cover when the pup grows up.” ~ Les Miserable, Andrew Lloyd Weber Terrorism has its beginning in the abuse, neglect, loss of parents, and exposure to violence in early childhood resulting in disruptions in attachments. Those with disrupted attachments fail to reach pro-social maturity interpersonally, in affect regulation and self control, and in moral development. Generations of war and violence in the Middle East continues to produce more terrorists. The world must make a commitment to care for its children.

Is Perception Reality?

When it comes to our perceptive filters, we should think of our minds as engines for our bodies. What kind of fuel we put into our engines is all about our perceptive filters. Whether or not our fuel is clogged by air bubbles or if its high octane all depends on our ability to question our biases, think a little more critically, and try and tune out negative and unconstructive thoughts and perceptions. If we focus on the positive comments, and the best of each situation, we could empower ourselves to realize that if perception is indeed reality, we can choose what kind of world we live in.

The United State of Confusion

We live in a world of confusion that has its origin in the state of confusion existing within the minds of the vast majority of human beings on Earth. This is an article in which a new science of psychological philosophy is explored.

The Word: Personality

Life is a learning experience. The complexity of human behaviour is finely related to the several mechanisms which define how, what and when we learn about the world...

Counselling with Difference

One of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that client diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client's needs and objectives...

Viktor Frankl: Existentialist and the Father of Logotherapy

Viktor E. Frankl born 1905, educated in Venna, and from 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau, the Nazi two most infamous concentration camps. Dr. Frankl the father of Logotherapy, a well-known author and many of his work has been translated from German into Polish, Japanese, and several other languages including English. Logotherapy is often called the third branch of Venna school of psychotherapy following Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology.

Save Our Children: When Is a Mother Dangerous to her Child or Others?

What could make a woman so desperate that she would kill her friend, her children, or another woman. We do not want to think of our mothers, sisters and daughters in this way. Prevention programs are available and need to be used.

When We Dream of House or Home - What Does It Mean

Every single night, everybody dreams. One of the more frequently appearing dream symbols is the house. Every dream symbol includes powerful, personal meanings and generic, archetypal levels as well. Each dream symbol contains much condensed wisdom seeking to become conscious; it is knowledge which can guide and enrich our lives, but only if we listen.

The Whole is the Illusion

What you see about you is not real. You are an illusion, imagined by all those who are creating you in their experience. Nothing is the only things that really exists.

How Habits are Formed by Our Mind

This article describes how our habits are formed in our brain through process of pattern recognition and association.

The Truth About Suicides

The sophisticated, modern world shuns at the idea of talking about suicide. However, man’s aversion to the idea of suicide does not diminish the fact that more and more people are contemplating about taking their lives everyday, every minute, every second.

2007 Common Sense Psychology Thoughts

It is truly amazing the abundance of psychological profiling going on in America and academia. Even more amazing is the psychologists who tell us how to profile personalities and how to raise our children and explain to us how to love, conduct our relationships and raise our kids tend to have the most problematic children, druggie teens and dysfunctional families. So, who can you believe when it comes to psychology?