Christian counseling: Variation of biblical counseling. Behavioral issues, social factors, and theological principles that affect physical and psychological health are its apparent foci. The Melton Book Company series Resources for Christian Counseling includes the title Counseling the Demonic (1989).

(See also: Christian counseling, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Diamond Approach (Diamond Approach to inner realization): Variation of the Work that borrows from depth psychology (which Freudian and Jungian systems of psychoanalysis exemplify). The expression the Work refers to the endeavor to retrieve essence: one's true nature or true master, the force of life.

(See also: Diamond Approach, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Polarity energy balancing massage: System based on the work of Randolph Stone (see Polarity Therapy). It has four branches: (1) energy balancing bodywork technique, (2) Polarity Yoga, (3) diet, and (4) body/mind/spiritual psychology.

(See also: Polarity energy balancing massage, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

life force balancing: Combination of the laying on of hands, psychic healing, psychological adjustments, and spiritual counseling, developed by Barbara West. It involves a healing science called intercellular regeneration.

(See also: Life force balancing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

hypnoanalysis: Method taught by the Infinity International Institute of Hypnotherapy, in Royal Oak, Michigan. Hypnoanalysis encompasses dream analysis, hypnotherapy, regression therapy, spiritual cleansing, transpersonal psychology, and techniques for the release of negative energy.

(See also: Hypnoanalysis, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psychodynamic Chirology (PDC): A comprehensive diagnostic discipline based on the medical-genetic science of dermatoglyphics (see hand psychology). One of PDC's principles is that events in the brain are invariably represented in the hand.

(See also: Psychodynamic Chirology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psycho-Pictography: Subject of the bestseller of the same name, written by self-help guru Vernon Howard and published by Prentice Hall. It is a means of using the miracle power of one's mind, through mental images, to decipher spiritual and psychological truths.

(See also: Psycho-Pictography, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Fraud:

The deliberate faking of paranormal phenomenon, generally for the purpose of financial gain, psychological manipulation, or notoriety. Faking for the purpose of entertainment (e.g., by stage magicians and mentalists) is not normally classed as fraud.

(See also: Fraud, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Peregrinations of the Monad Used mainly for the post-mortem states and conditions of the spiritual monad plus its movements in and through the solar system guided by certain dominating spiritual-psychological factors, both in the monad itself and in the solar system.

See also INNER ROUNDS; OUTER ROUNDS

(See also: Peregrinations of the Monad, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Partsuphin (Chaldean) Faces, visages, aspects; used in the Qabbalah as an equivalent for 'Anaph (plural 'Anpin), signifying manifested worlds, because each manifested world is an aspect or face of an indwelling spiritual, psychological, and material group of hierarchical entities. It thus stands for the globes, collectively, of a planetary chain.

(See also: Partsuphin, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of Behaviorism

Behaviorism - [Psychology]

Behaviorism was pioneered by John Watson, an American psychologist who argued that psychology should concern itself only with the observable facts of behavior. Behavior could then be linked to prior experience. Psychologists who study observable behavior are called behaviorists. Behavior therapy concentrates on the present. Therapists help patients understand how they learned to behave badly and how this caused them to be disturbed. The reasons why something was learned is less important than helping the patient change the behavior.

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Definition and meaning of Behaviorism

Behaviorism - [Psychology]

Behaviorism was pioneered by John Watson, an American psychologist who argued that psychology should concern itself only with the observable facts of behavior. Behavior could then be linked to prior experience. Psychologists who study observable behavior are called behaviorists. Behavior therapy concentrates on the present. Therapists help patients understand how they learned to behave badly and how this caused them to be disturbed. The reasons why something was learned is less important than helping the patient change the behavior.

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Definition and meaning of Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Expectancy - [Psychology]

Self-esteem is the value a person ascribes to himself or herself. It is a psychological need identified by Abraham Maslow in his Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow felt everyone acted to win approval, recognition, and a sense of achievement, but these were difficult to attain if basic human needs like food and clothing were not met. Once people satisfied these physiological and safety needs, they could consider realizing psychological needs of self-esteem and love. Self-efficacy is a person's perception of his or her own effectiveness or confidence in his or her ability to perform a particular test. It is part of the self-actualizing needs, the need to fulfill individual potential, which constitute the peak of Maslow's needs. In striving to attain these goals, people often act in ways which influence other people's perceptions. Attribution theory considers such actions self-serving. Expectancy relates to a person's expectations based on prior experience.

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Definition and meaning of Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Expectancy - [Psychology]

Self-esteem is the value a person ascribes to himself or herself. It is a psychological need identified by Abraham Maslow in his Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow felt everyone acted to win approval, recognition, and a sense of achievement, but these were difficult to attain if basic human needs like food and clothing were not met. Once people satisfied these physiological and safety needs, they could consider realizing psychological needs of self-esteem and love. Self-efficacy is a person's perception of his or her own effectiveness or confidence in his or her ability to perform a particular test. It is part of the self-actualizing needs, the need to fulfill individual potential, which constitute the peak of Maslow's needs. In striving to attain these goals, people often act in ways which influence other people's perceptions. Attribution theory considers such actions self-serving. Expectancy relates to a person's expectations based on prior experience.

(Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University )

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Archetype:

(1) Original astral form of a phenomenon;

(2) In the psychology of C. G. Jung, an inherited idea or mode of thought derived from the experiences of the species and present in the unconscious of the individual who picks it up from the collective unconscious of the species.

(See also: Archetype, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Role Playing:

(1) A flavor of “modern” psychology, discovered by Aeschylus and Shakespeare, saying that we all wear masks and play various roles as conditions seem to require, even when alone.

(2) A type of game in which the participants cooperate in the creation of a living fantasy novel.

(See also: Role Playing, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Psychometry:

(1) The science of statistical measurements in the field of psychology.

(2) An undefeatable term for a psychic talent involving the reception of data “from” objects or surroundings about events and/or persons connected to those objects or surroundings; quite possibly the ability to use objects or places as contagion links for telepathic reception, the clair senses, and/or retrocognition.

(See also: Psychometry, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

PSYCHE - ‘breath’ 1. soul, spirit, mind.

2. mental or psychological structure of the personality.

3. (cap) young women beloved by Eros in Greek mythology.

4. second emanation of the One, world spirit in neoplatonism. (Greek) (NAD)

(See also: PSYCHE, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

A psychological approach founded by John B. Watson in the early 1920's that is based on measuring, predicting, and controlling behavior. Behaviorists have been particularly interested in examining the relationship between how a stimulus produces a particular response.

(See also: Behaviorism, Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

A term used by medical practitioners to refer to the process of expressing a mental or emotional condition as a disturbed bodily function. It is especially common in nonindustrialized societies where people don't recognize mental illnesses or deal with psychological problems as medical conditions.

(See also: somatization, Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

Pneumatology The study of gases; the study of beings intermediate between God or other divinity and man, including in the lower ranges angels, daimones, etc., and still lower possibly even demons and ghosts, etc.; the Christian theological doctrine of the Holy Ghost. G. de Purucker uses the term etymologically for the science of the pneuma or spirit, just as psychology is strictly speaking the science of the psyche.

The psyche is the lower intermediate nature of man, kama-manas; pneuma pertains to the higher duad, atma-buddhi. Modern psychology and psychoanalysis unfortunately deal mainly with the activities of the lower quaternary of the septenary being that is man, and ignores the activities or even the existence of anything else higher.

(See also: Pneumatology, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. Its marginal status may come about either due to its novel belief system or because of its idiosyncratic practices. In common usage, "cult" has a negative connotation, and is generally applied to a group by its opponents, for a variety of possible reasons. Cult - Definitions ...

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