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Complexity, cod and psychological perception of safety

That of Security Decree it is a hot topic. Sharply criticized by a broad front ranging from opposition to humanitarian associations, it was judged unconstitutional by the associations of legal studies, economically disadvantageous for the country system, unworkable with respect to the expected economic coverage.

migrants, immigration, welcome, safety, social psychology, company

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Spectators of a world that exalts individuality: the narcissistic society

"When wealth occupies a higher position than wisdom, when fame is more admired than dignity and when success is more important than self-respect, it means that culture itself overestimates the image and must be considered narcissistic". (Lowen TO.)

The term narcissism has now become part of the common lexicon, has become a hashtag, often acts as a frame for descriptions of successful businesses in the various areas of daily life and seems almost a patented term to describe our time.

Commitment, psychology, narcissism, personality

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Eating disorders 2.0: The hidden fragility between social networks and eating disorders

The sites Pro-Ana e Pro-Mia belong to the neo-pitfalls of the gods social and new technologies accompanying the birth of new frontiers of the food disorders called 2.0.
We are faced with a real string effect, where each branch constitutes a disturbed way of dealing with nutrition, nutrition and body image, here we find the puppeteers of Eating Behavior Disorders (DCA): fitnessApp, applications for the control of caloric assimilation, Instagram thriving with darlings of fitness and muscle gain, virtual personal trainers. They are tools that can lead to sports addictions, excessive food control up to real phobias for certain foods!

food disorders, supply, social networks, identity, pregnancy, adolescence

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Migrants and resilience: the art of navigating streams

Londa Hokusai PsyOnlus Blog

Psychoanalyst Cyrulnik Boris defines the Resilience like "the art of navigating streams", a difficult and demanding but not solitary navigation because it is related to the external environment.

In psychology, the Resilience it is configured as a process of mutation that allows hostilities to be transformed into opportunities for renewal and to structure alternative paths, avoiding or canceling those that have become impracticable and enemy. Resilience to adverse situations therefore depends on a cumulative and interactive combination of risk factors e protective factors genetic, personal and environmental.

migrants, psychology, immigration, Resilience, welcome, community

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The couple relationship: the paradoxes of intimacy

"If we admit that intimacy is one of the forces involved in the dialectic between belonging and individuation, and that for most people the need, desire, desire for intimacy are stronger than the ability to tolerate it, it follows that in in the sphere of our personal relationships, most of us are victims of human respect "(CA Whitaker, 1989).

Cross and delight of human relationships, a lot has been written about intimacy and several scholars of the psyche have dealt with it trying to explain what drives the human being to desire something that he perceives as dangerous for the integrity of his own self.

affectivity, relations, love, communication

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Dreams creatures of the mind: theories and functions of the dream experience

Since ancient times man has been wondering aboutorigin and meaning of dreams, being attracted by its intimate and fascinating nature, but intimidated by the halo of mystery in which it has always been wrapped.

Anthropological studies report that some tribes believed that during dreams the soul left the body to travel the world, and that it would return only upon awakening. For this reason it was forbidden to wake people up suddenly, because the soul could be in another place. Even today the Masai tribes of Kenya and the Bedouins of the Nile use to wrap their heads with a turban during sleep to prevent the soul from flying away.

psychology, psychobiology, psychological theories, dream, sonno

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