Based on the CCH Syllabus Hour-wise distribution of Topics(20 Hours)

1. Introduction 2. History of the development of psychology 3. Branches of Psychology 4. Schools of Psychology 5. Concept of Mind - Mesmer 6. Concept of Mind - Hypnosis 7. Sigmund Freud 8. Contemporary Schools of Psyc...

Dr Mansoor Ali "Those out want to get in while those in want to get out" The most important thing in life is having a good marriage and family life; or in other words achieving an everlasting intimacy with someone of other sex remain a major life goal for most people.

Dr Achama Lenu Thomas  BHMS,MD(Hom) Medical Officer, Dept. of Homoeopathy, Govt. of Kerala

Toward the end of the nineteenth century. it was clear to many that there were mental disorders with a psychological basis as well as those with an organic basis. But one major question remained to be ...

Dr Sanchoo Balachandran MD(Hom) Calicut.  Kerala

Psychosocial Problems Causes Physical or emotional stress Birth defects Physical injury Inconsistent and contradictory child rearing practices. Marital conflict. Child abuse and neglect, overindulges. ...

Dr ES Rajendran, BHMS, M.D.(Hom) Principal Vinayaka Misson Homoeopahic Medical College,Salem Email : rajendrans@eth.net

Psychology as a branch of Science emerged in the west with the studies of Sigmund Freud. He was born of Jewish parents at F...

Dr Mansoor Ali Psychology is the science of human and animal behavior, it attempt to use rational means to understand the action of people and lower animals.

History and developments As psychology developed from the philosophy, and became a separate area of study in the late...

Dr  Smita Deb Krori (Maity) B. Sc. (Hons) [NEHU] BHMS (Hons) [Calcutta] MD (Hom. Organon) [Pune] Associate Professor,Teaching Psychology, Organon & Repertory Lal Bahadur Shastri Homoeopathic Medical College, Bhopal – 26 (MP)

This article is the continuation of my previ...

Phenomenology  Edmund Husserl, at the turn of our century, set himself the goal of establishing a rigorous science, that is a body of knowledge that is not based on any presuppositions. The slogan of his phenomenology is, "back to the things themselves," by which he means back to what we are re...

Thinking is the  cognitive rearrangement of manipulation of both information from environment and the symbols stored in long term memory. Thinking involves the cerebral manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions. Thinking is a higher cognitive function and the analysis of thinkin...

Stress can be defined as a demand placed on our psychological and physical functioning that threatens an individual's adaptation to a given situation.

The individual's perception of losing control of his or her life.

Stressors Any event or situation that g...

Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Examples include listening carefully to what someone is saying while ignoring other conversations in the room.

In other words attention is the first step in the observa...

General Information Realism denotes two distinct sets of philosophical theories, one regarding the nature of universal concepts and the other dealing with knowledge of objects in the world.

In late - classical and medieval philosophy, realism was a development of the Platonic theory of Forms ...

The central theme of positivism is the employment of verifiability as the criterion of meaning. Everything should be empirically verified.

This fundamental doctrine of Positivism is not to be attributed in the full breadth of its meanings to any single thinker. It is the slow result of a vast process carried o...

Perception refers to the way the world looks round, feels taste or smell. In other words, perception can be defined as whatever is experienced by a person. In psychology and the cognitive sciences perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting and organizing sensory information. The word perception comes from the Latin perception...

It deals with the problem of existence. It is an irrational trend in bourgeois philosophy. It tries to differentiate between being and existing.

The subject matter of philosophy is Being. (Essence) Science deals with existence – ie everything that belongs to the empirical world, the world of experience.

Dr Smita Deb Krori (MAITY) B. Sc. (Hons) [NEHU] BHMS (Hons) [Calcutta] MD (Hom. Organon) [Pune] Associate Professor , Teaching Psychology, Organon & Repertory Lal Bahadur Shastri Homoeopathic Medical College, Bhopal – 26 (MP)

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