Imagine, how long it takes you to get to know a person! In many situations psychologists don't have that kind of time. Research on...

Drug therapy has been notably effective with 4 types of disorder, those in which schizophrenia, mania, depression & anxiety play...

It's a mater of curiosity that why family therapy is needed? What should family members of a psychiatric patients do? What kind of role...

Patients with anxiety disorder often have features of other disorder, specially the disturbances of mood found in depression. For...

Generalized anxiety disorder might be best describe as consultant of prolonged, bagus, unexplained but intense fear that do not seem to...

There are few more types of tests that may indicate vulnerability to schizophrenia. It's a measure of eye tracking. Eye tracking is a...

Parental, genetic, biochemical & cognitive deficits observed early in life might be predictive of future difficulties. When these occur,...

There are strong arguments for the assumption that biochemical factors play a role in schizophrenia. Recent development of scanning...

Hallucinations delusions & disorganized speech or behavior are usually called the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Negative symptoms...

What is the optimal treatment program for schizophrenia? While there is not yet a definitive answer to this question, it seems clear that...

As per DSM-IV-TR (Axis II), the idea of personality disorders as independent conditions that might or might not be related to more...

People with Dependent Personality Disorder have 2 basic characteristics. First, they passively allow other people to make all the...

Health of mind and body are intensely related to each other. When someone gets mentally weak, it's assured that there will be some bodily...

According to DSM-IV-TR, Dissociative Disorder has 4 classifications. Dissociative Amnesia is one of them. Dissociation often involves...

Adjustment disorder is considered to be more straightforward than dissociative disorders because of the case if identifying triggers &...

Stress plays a role in most of the conditions that make up abnormal psychology. Acute stress disorders that require clinical intervention...

While experiencing extremely traumatic stressors like physical assault or witnessing accidental death or soon after it occurs, a person...

People with schizotypal personality disorder are characterized by oddities of thinking, perceiving, communicating & behaving. These...

Bipolar II disorder differs from Bipolar I . Manic behavior present is present to a lesser degree, called hypomania. A hypomanic episode...

Behaviors & symptoms of some individuals don't fit into either major mood disorder or schizophrenia. Instead, they seem to have some...