Symptom - Syndrome - Disorder

When we talk about health there are some words like disease, syndrome, symptom, disorder. Not all these words belong in the clinical psychology. I would like to talk to you about three words.

Who or what are psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists?

Psychologist? - Psychotherapist? - Psychiatrist? Some of you may have questioned the difference between these figures. Can they do the same thing? Is one better than the other one? What did they study? If you didn’t understand the difference between these three, perhaps reading this post will help you.

I read that research of the University of...

How many times have you read or heard that the researchers from a specific University discovered that... and then followed news that appeared useless. As an example, consider the relationship between how you hang toilet paper and your personality! Here there is a problem of scientific dissemination (as well as use of public money), to explain scientific facts to people who may have little or no knowledge about a subject. 

Cathy reads the post:

How do you behave with your pen?

If I mention the term “behaviour”, what do you think of? Perhaps of the time that you said or thought "I don’t like his behaviour", or, less frequently: "He is a nice person, I admire the way he behaves when angry or stressed". Many of us think of behaviour as something that comes out of a relationship with another person. In the field of psychology, behaviour is also something else.

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Is Psychology a science?

If you visit the Wikipedia Psychology page you will see that psychology is defined as the scientific study of mind and behaviour.

Then if you think about a session with a psychologist, and you think of two people talking, and it doesn’t seem to have much to do with science. Is that true?  

Laura reads the post: