Authors and concepts
These are fairly rough & disorganised notes for definitions of concepts, authors and theories in Psychology.
Assessment Tools & Scales
- 10-item Ruminative Response Scale (RRS)
- Childhood Narcissism Scale
- Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)
- IQ Test
- Jonathan Shedler SWAP methodology
- NEO PI-R test
- Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45)
- Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)
- Reflective Function Scale
- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
- The Six Basic Emotions
Authors and their concepts
- Alfred Adler: Inferiority Complex
- Bessel van der Kolk (Body Keeps Score)
- Dead Mother Complex (André Green)
- George Loewenstein's "hot-cold empathy gap"
- Herbert Rosenfeld Narcissism
- Herbert Rosenfeld: Thick Skin and Thin Skin Narcissist
- Jaak Panksepp
- Jeffrey Schwartz OCD 4 steps
- Jennifer Skeem papers on psychopaths
- Jonathan Shedler SWAP methodology
- Judy Singer (Neurodiversity)
- Kohut Mirroring
- Kohut's Tragic Man + Imago
- Kohlberg's levels of morality
- Marsha Linehan DBT
- Socratic questioning and psychotherapy, and cognitive therapy Judith Beck
- Theodore Millon, personality disorders and Narcissism traits
- Theodore reich
- William glaser psychiatrist
Behavioral Psychology
- Approach avoidance compulsion
- Coercion Theory and Coercive Cycle (Gerald Patterson)
- External locus of control
- Impulsivity
- Intermittent reinforcement
Brain & Neuroscience
- 4 Core Executive Functions of the Brain
- 7 motivation systems in the brain panksepp
- Anterior insular disgust
- BDNF - Brain derived neurotrophic factor
- BDNF depressions & exercise
- BDNF dopamine
- Dopamine antagonists
- Left Brain vs Right Brain
- Neurofeedback Training
- Reduced frontal lobe function with alcohol
Clinical Concepts
- Autoeroticism
- BPD & acts of penance
- BPD vs Autism
- Delusions
- Hostile Superego
- Microexpressions
- Pathological
- Pathology
- PISIA bpd
- Reality Testing
- Vignettes
Cognitive Biases
- Actor-Observer Bias/Asymmetry
- Attribution Theory
- Base Rate Cognitive Biases
- Dispositional Attribution
- Dunning-Kruger effect/ Illusory superiority
- Halo / negative halo effect
- Just World Phenomenon
- Null Attribution
- Omniscient Infallibility
Defense Mechanisms
- Acting out
- Altruistic surrender
- Anticipation
- Deflection
- Denial
- Devaluation
- Displacement
- Dissociation
- Humour
- Idealisation
- Identification with the Aggressor
- Intellectualisation
- Introjection
- Isolation of Affect
- Passive Aggression
- Projection
- Projective identification
- Rationalisation
- Reaction formation
- Regression
- Repression
- Splitting
- Sublimation
- Suppression
- Time Distortion
- Turning Against the Self
- Undoing
Emotions & Affect
- Emotional dissonance
- Labile affectivity
- Negative affect
- Paradoxical warmth/cold
- Shallow affect
- Shame
Empathy & Theory of Mind
- Borderline empathy paradox
- Cognitive empathy
- Emotional empathy
- George Loewenstein's "hot-cold empathy gap"
- Systemizing type brain
- Theory of double empathy
Family & Development
- Bowlby secure base
- Family systems theory
- Identity Foreclosure
- Love Object Choice Psychology
- Pervasive & pervasive pattern
- Window of Vulnerability for Mental Illness
Intimacy & Relationships
- Emotional incest
- Future vagueing/faking
- Intimacy
- Mature Dependence
- Othello syndrome
- Self-object transference
- Silent treatment
- Soothing Mirroring
- Transference and countertransference
Memory & Cognition
- Cognitive Flexibility
- Inhibitory Control
- Memory constructivist
- Planning and Organization
- Semantic memory vs episodic memory
- Types of memory
- Working Memory
Narcissism & Personality Disorders
- Attentional narrowing
- Childhood Narcissism Scale
- Dark Tetrad
- Dark Triad
- Dichotomous Thinking
- Ego dystonic
- Ego syntonic
- Herbert Rosenfeld Narcissism
- Herbert Rosenfeld: Thick Skin and Thin Skin Narcissist
- Identity diffusion
- Narcissism as inherited
- Negative identity formation
- Referential Ideation
- Referential ideation
- Theodore Millon, personality disorders and Narcissism traits
Narcissistic Abuse & Manipulation
- Apology substitutes
- Child of narcissist parents and Depersonalization/dissociative
- DARVO
- Emotional delay
- JADE
Other Concepts
- Anaphora - repeating something 3 times at the start
- Baby Still face experiment
- Bad faith
- Basking in reflected glory
- Bessel van der Kolk (Body Keeps Score)
- Co-rumination
- Cognitive Science and Consciousness
- Confounding variables
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Emotive conjugation
- Festaiolo
- Framing
- How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit?
- Hypophora
- Jaak Panksepp
- Judy Singer (Neurodiversity)
- Just world belief
- Kolhbergs levels of morality
- Leading Question (encourages agreement)
- Loaded Question (assumes the statement is true)
- Machiavelli's effectual truth
- Mental rehearsal
- Mentally ill vs healthy
- Mood congruence
- OCEAN
- Ocean vs disc
- Overdetermination
- Pareto distribution
- Rat Heaven
- Received wisdom
- Relational Schema Psychology
- Resistances
- Self object function
- Spandrel (by product)
- Stroop test
- System 1 and system 2
- The Zeigarnik Effect
- Theodore reich
- William glaser psychiatrist
Psychiatric Conditions
- Alexithymic
- Amentia and Dementia
- Autophobia
- Depersonalization
- Derealisation
- Dissociation & Dissociative
- Dual Neurosis
- Dysania
- Mood Congruent
- Mood Incongruent
- Somatization
Psychoanalytic Theory - Freud
- Cathexis
- De-cathexis
- Freud's death instinct
- Freud's Pleasure Principle
- Freud: Super Ego, Ego, ID
- Libidinal
- Persecutory object
- Reality Principle
- Repetition compulsion
- Super ego
Psychoanalytic Theory - Jung
- Jung projection of the anima and animus
- Jung: Individuation
- Jung: Persona
- Jung: Shadow Projection
- Psychological Complex
Psychoanalytic Theory - Other
- Alfred Adler: Inferiority Complex
- Dead Mother Complex (André Green)
- Imago
- Kohut Mirroring
- Kohut's Tragic Man + Imago
- Object Constancy in Childhood and Its Relationship
- Object Relations Dyad
- Object Relations Theory
- Separation-Individuation and Child Rapprochement Phase
Psychopathy & Antisocial Behavior
- Boldness
- Callous and unemotional traits
- Disinhibition
- Female psychopaths
- Influence of childhood trauma in psychopathy
- Jennifer Skeem papers on psychopaths
- Juvenile psychopathy
- Meanness
- Psychopathy and the triarchic model
- WEB and psychopaths
- "word" test for psychopaths
Psychotherapy & Treatment
- CBT cycle diagrams
- CBT experimenting
- Creating a corrective experience
- Jeffrey Schwartz OCD 4 steps
- Marsha Linehan DBT
- Socratic questioning and psychotherapy, and cognitive therapy Judith Beck
- Therapeutic Alliance
Social Psychology
- Abience
- Adience
- Affective Realism
- Asch Conformity Experiments
- Basking in reflected glory
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Intersubjectivity Self-Reporting
- Shared Fantasy as Co-Idealising
- Williams model of ostracism
- Withholding from paranoia
Thinking Patterns & Cognitive Processes
- Autistic Thinking
- Dialectical thinker
- Dissonant thinking
- Hyper Reflexivity (Psychology)
- Paradoxical motion
- Psychic Equivalence
- Reflective Function
- The 3 Non-Mentalizing Modes
Trauma & Attachment
- 7 Stages of Trauma Bonding
- Adult attachment interview
- Adult attachment interview ptsd
- Anaclitic Depression
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Introjective Depression
- Intrusion Trauma
- PTSD night terrors
- Vicarious trauma