The very latest news from the world of Psychology. Private Therapy Clinic blog offers information about psychological concepts, theories, therapeutic approaches and human behaviour. The articles and vides posted here also offer tips and advice written by registered Psychologist Dr. Becky Spelman and our team of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychotherapists.
When a child’s mind faces the unthinkable, it doesn’t break, it becomes brilliantly creative, building internal communities that preserve humanity through extraordinary organisational resilience Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) might sound like an incredibly intimidating psychological term, but it can actually be thought of quite simply as a sophisticated response to severe and inescapable childhood…
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a condition that is often hard to provide an accurate diagnosis for due to several factors. The first being it remains one of the more...
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a very complex and commonly misunderstood difficulty which affects approximately 1.6% of the population, although many go undiagnosed. Suffering from BPD often goes hand in...
Self-talk is the interval story we create for ourselves. It’s the mental narrative we grant permission to be the overarching theme of our life. As our thoughts create our actions,...
Personality profiling is nothing new, and we each have our own brand of uniqueness. Understanding who you are at the core of your being - your values and traits -...
Empathy and compassion… They’re sometimes used interchangeably, but in reality, they represent two related and overlapping concepts. They form the basis of what a thriving society and culture could and...
Imposter syndrome is something we've probably all experienced at some point in our lives. A 2011 study indicated it has affected as many as 70 per cent of us. For...
Every generation of parents faces new challenges when it comes to raising their kids, and millennials are no different. Millennials are defined as the generation born from the 1980s to...
Caffeine occupies a strange place within western culture. By all accounts, it exhibits all the traits of a narcotic – or illicit substance. It’s stimulating, you have incredible highs and...
A lot of negative emotions result from people asking themselves the wrong questions and then answering them in a way that does not result in useful answers.Both in therapy and...
Uncertainty is the mother of all anxiety. Dealing with the anxiety of not knowing anything is the unavoidable side-effect of changing times, which prompts us to question whether things are...
