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Types of Psychological mirroring

January 20, 2026

What are there various types of mirroring? How do they differ and what are the main papers. For example: childhood mirroring vs psychopathic mirroring.

Autism and anxiety

January 16, 2026

Everyone gets anxiety in their life, what studies measure its interaction with ASD? Is anxiety more prevalent in ASD?

Autism and suicide

January 15, 2026

Does having ASD increase suicide chance and suicidal ideation?

If you really cared, I wouldn't need to ask

December 22, 2025

Is there an attachment style associated with this type of belief? The belief that help only counts if it's offered spontaneously, and that having to ask for it invalidates or diminishes its value. Does it come from childhood attachment, or just adult relationships (adult attachment)?

TikTok Autism and its relation to Psychology

December 21, 2025

TikTok has a lot of videos about ASD and also other Psychology ideas such as "avoidant attachment". Many of the things described as specific to ASD are also universal behaviours and traits. Here's a few of them.

Freud's various cathexis

December 14, 2025

The word "cathexis" was invented by James Strachey in his translation of Freud's works. Freud had a few types of cathexis, including hypercathexis and decathexis, as an explanation for human processing of emotions.

A Psychoanalysis and the Psychology of Stargate SG-1

December 7, 2025

Stargate SG-1 ran from 1997 until 2007 with 10 seasons and 214 episodes plus the original movie and subsequent movies. The show has many recurring themes in its characters around emotional regulational, trauma and themes relating to maladaptive personality, especially themes on what is now commonly called "gaslighting" and what is real. If you haven't seen the show, it's worth watching the Kurt Russell movie first, and then starting from episode 1.

Triangulation

December 1, 2025

A history of the term "triangulation", now strongly accompanied with the word "narcissism".

Passive Aggressive Behaviour & PAPD

November 25, 2025

"Passive aggressive" was first used clinically during World War II to describe soldiers who refused to comply with officers’ demands *(Millon, 1981, cited in Hopwood CJ, Wright AG. 2012)*. Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) was a disorder in the DSM up until version IV, with its removal questioned.

The Socratic Method example

November 18, 2025

The socratic method is a technique for exploring ideas by asking repeated questions that expose contradictions in what someone believes.

APIs and sites to search academic papers

November 16, 2025

There are quite a few alternatives to Google Scholar that are free. This is how the [The academic search](https://psychology-notes.yetanotherchris.dev/tools/academic-search/) on this site was built.

Pyschotherapy meta-analysis

November 15, 2025

Does pyschotherapy only work for mild disorders? 1000 studies and 85,000 patients for 12 mental health problems.

Personality research

November 9, 2024

A few current papers related to personality traits including job performance.

ASD research

November 1, 2025

A few current papers related to autism, including the Aspie Quiz and minds-eye/empathy test.