#psychology
12 entries tagged psychology.
Programs (1)
- Project MKUltra Project MKUltra was a top-secret, illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Concepts (11)
- Cryptomnesia Cryptomnesia is a phenomenon where a forgotten memory reappears without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is a new and original thought.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder, abbreviated as DID, emerged as a clinical concept describing a condition in which trauma induces dissociative states leading to the development of multiple distinct personalities within a single individual.
- False Memory Syndrome An academic movement which began in the early 1990s pointed toward the exponential growth in child sex abuse allegations as being the result of people recalling false memories.
- Glossolalia Glossolalia, commonly known as 'speaking in tongues,' is the phenomenon of uttering words or sounds that resemble language but are not understood by the speaker or listeners.
- Human Potential Human Potential refers to the inherent capabilities and untapped resources believed to exist within all individuals.
- Hypnotism Hypnotism emerged as a significant area of research in the twentieth century, particularly in relation to mind control programs and the manipulation of memory. George H.
- Mind Control Mind control as a field of intelligence research emerged from the CIA program MKUltra, which sought to discover effective methods of modifying human behavior to create brainwashed operatives.
- Multiple Personality Disorder Multiple personality disorder functioned as the clinical term for what later became known as dissociative identity disorder, describing a condition in which an individual develops distinct alternative personalities, often as a result of severe or...
- Pedophilia Pedophilia was often conflated with homosexuality by news and law enforcement agencies during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Serial Killer The serial killer profile emerged as a dominant framework in criminal investigations and popular media for understanding cases involving multiple murders.
- Synchronicity Synchronicity is a concept first introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It refers to meaningful coincidences that lack a causal relationship but are deeply connected in meaning.