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What evidence-based practice was actually meant to be, what clinical experience knows that manuals cannot capture, and why the mature assessor works between the two poles — illustrated by the uneasy case of the Draw-A-Person test.
What scientific psychology has to say about the lessons of James Clear's bestseller — sorting the well-supported from the merely catchy, and asking why behavior change, self-concept, and measurable personality traits are not the same thing.
Group hatred and extremism are not clinical diagnoses — but psychology still has a role. A forensic look at radicalization, risk assessment, and the limits of psychodiagnostics.
Hatred blurs into anger, disgust, and prejudice in everyday speech. This article anchors it as a distinct psychological construct, traces its mechanisms, and surveys how clinicians assess it indirectly when no standardized instrument for hatred exists.
What scientific psychology has to say about truth, opinion, and the seductive idea of 'alternative facts' — from cognitive dissonance and motivated reasoning to the need for cognitive closure and the discipline of epistemic honesty.
Comparative psychology is more than an academic curiosity — what animal cognition research can teach the clinician about the generality of psychological theories, anthropocentric assumptions, and the limits of animal models of psychopathology.
What separates standardized psychological assessment from astrological personality typing, why the Barnum effect makes generic descriptions feel accurate — and how to respond when a client says they are a typical Virgo.
We call people and decisions stupid every day — but what do we actually mean, and does the concept survive empirical scrutiny? A look at a word psychology both relies on and carefully avoids.
We treat culture-bound syndromes as something that happens elsewhere. But which mental disorders and diagnostic constructs are, on closer inspection, bound to Western culture itself — and what does that reveal about the universality of our own categories?
Most parents in custody disputes are competent, adaptive people — and yet the dispute makes them look like the problem. A forensic psychologist on what conflict does to ordinary parents, and how the evaluator should read it.
The otrovert arrived in popular psychology in 2025 as a supposed third personality type beside introversion and extraversion — a critical clinical look at what the concept claims, what it measures, and whether it exists at all.
Psychosomatic illness, functional somatic syndrome, somatoform disorder — three overlapping terms used interchangeably or separated without rationale. A conceptual map of where the boundaries lie and why they matter for the patient.
Why narcissistic traits gravitate toward the political arena and the autistic cognitive style toward science — a psychodiagnostic look at personality, cognitive style, and professional affinity, without turning probabilities into verdicts.