Psychology articles. Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability. What Makes You ‘Click’ With Someone Else? 10 Careers With The Most Psychopaths – Is Your Profession On This List? In today’s turbulent world, many people may wonder if the person with whom they work just might be the next psychopath to make news headlines.
Psychopaths aren’t necessarily ax murderers, as Time noted. The clinical diagnosis refers to those who have shallow emotions or who lack empathy and guilt, are coldhearted, superficial, manipulative, impulsive or irresponsible. And with that definition, it seems the corporate world has its fair share. Brain scans show differences in the brains of people classed as psychopaths, especially in areas to do with processing emotion (or a lack thereof). However, not all of these people walk around killing indiscriminately or killing at all; a person may fit the psychopathic personality profile, but may have been raised in such a way that he or she would be unlikely to actively and amorally inflict violence upon others. 1.
But “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap takes the prize. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Sources: AlterNet Washington Times The Richest Featured Image. 5 Things You Should Know About Gay Conversion Therapy. A therapy that claims to convert gay people into heterosexuals is being tested in court with two new cases, one of which seeks to sue counselors offering the therapy and the other seeking to defend them.
Gay conversion therapy, as it is known, supposedly helps gay people overcome same-sex attractions. But mainstream psychologists say the therapy is ineffective, unethical and often harmful, exacerbating anxiety and self-hatred among those treated for what is not a mental disorder. Here are five things you need to know about the therapy and the current lawsuits. 1. What's happening in the courts? Two new legal challenges are targeting conversion therapy.
In a second case in California, a federal judge is hearing arguments against a new state law that bans conversion therapy for minors. Never Scared Straight. No one forced Mathew Shurka to do it, but he was too afraid to say no.
In front of him was an opportunity to change his sexuality forever. At least, that’s what he was told. Just a month before, Shurka, who was 16 at the time and living in Great Neck, N.Y., had revealed to his father, through tears filled with dread, that he was gay. When Shurka’s father embraced him and said he’d love him no matter what, a weight was lifted. However, in the weeks that followed, Shurka’s father began to worry that his gay son would not flourish in a world that often oppresses people who are different.
Shurka, now 25, tells Newsweek that at the time he was afraid of coming out to his conservative Jewish community and losing his friends. [Related: Ex-Ex-Gay Pride.] Teens like Shurka—not quite old enough to make informed decisions for themselves, yet old enough to know what peer and parental pressure feels like—are in the middle of a growing movement in both the U.S. and abroad. Just a Factoid.