Perspective: Five myths about psychology
By Stephen Ilardi Stephen Ilardi is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Kansas. April 12 at 11:56 AM Many of psychology’s concepts and terms have, in recent decades, entered our vernacular. Political pundits speak casually of “confirmation bias” — the way people focus selectively on evidence that backs up their existing beliefs — and many laypeople know the purported role of serotonin in producing a sense of well-being.
Talking about painful experiences, however, is not guaranteed to be helpful. Consider “critical incident stress debriefing ,” a group-counseling protocol for people who have witnessed traumatic events. A meta-analysis of all published CISD trials did not find any beneficial effects of the intervention. Some studies have even linked the treatment with worse outcomes, perhaps because it forces some people to face painful memories before they’re ready.
A small minority of OCD sufferers really do have compulsive hand-washing rituals. But excessive cleaning is just one possibility in a broad universe of OCD symptoms. hallmark of bipolar disorder. Formerly known as manic depression, bipolar disorder is a source of increasing public fascination, and some high-profile celebrities have been diagnosed with the condition, including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Brand, Mariah Carey and the late Carrie Fisher.
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