I listen to some psychology podcasts, but I think they have information that's useful for people ewho are curious about psychology. I'm looking for something that can help me work as a clinical psychologist. Have you listened to anything you found transformative?

Need help choosing 2 Psychology internship projects (1 major + 1 minor)

Hi everyone! I’m currently doing a Psychology internship and need to select two projects from the 10 options below — one major and one minor project. I’d really appreciate your advice on which combination would be the best.

Here’s a quick summary of the options:

MindMap: Student stress, sleep, and emotional well-being analysis.

BehavLab: Habit formation, triggers, relapse patterns, and behavior change.

EmotionPulse: Tracking mood, sleep, workload, and coping strategies.

CareerPsyche: Matching personality and interests with suitable career paths.

MindSupport: Peer support, mentor matching, and referrals for emotional distress.

BurnoutGuard: Workplace burnout assessment and recovery tracking.

AnxietyCare: CBT-based anxiety self-help and progress tracking.

FamilyConnect: Family relationships, conflict patterns, and communication.

ResilienceHub: Emotional resilience, coping skills, and stress recovery.

FocusPath: Attention, procrastination, distractions, and productivity behavior.

The projects may involve assessments, data analysis, tracking systems, dashboards, interventions, and reports, depending on the topic.

I’m looking for a combination that is interesting, practical, psychology-focused, manageable for a student, and offers good learning opportunities. I’d also appreciate advice on which projects might be more technically demanding, as I’m not sure how much coding or website development is required.

If you had to choose one major and one minor project from these 10, which two would you choose, and why? I’d love to hear your recommendations and experiences!

Thank you! ❤️

Hi! I have a professor who is in his first year of teaching at my university, and he’s having a hard time getting students to show up. He truly is one of the best professors I’ve ever had, and it hurts my heart to see him go so unappreciated.
I wanted to get him a gift of some kind to show my appreciation, and am also open to any other ideas on how to show him he’s valued!

He mentioned once he also did a lot of research on statistics in psych :)

When I first read Trauma and Recovery (1992) in 2008, it changed my understanding of psychological trauma. Truth and Repair is its logical and conceptual sequel. Where the earlier book mapped the dialectic of trauma on the individual and collective levels, this one asks what a society owes survivors, and what it would take to deliver it. It insists, once more, that trauma is a collective phenomenon, not a private misfortune.

Herman puts the bystander at the center. Trauma on a large scale does not happen without the silence, disbelief, and convenient inattention of those who could have intervened. Perpetrators rely on this, and so do the institutions that shelter them. The responsibility therefore reaches well beyond the individual who commits the harm. Mass traumatization requires a cultural environment that supports it, and Herman names the tyranny of patriarchy as the deepest layer of that environment.

One of the book’s most sobering observations is how little we know about the motives and intrapsychic dynamics of people who sexually abuse children, even though this violence is extremely common. The field has overwhelmingly studied victims and comparatively neglected perpetrators. Could this asymmetry also be a symptom of the cultural dynamics it describes?

The ethical core of the book is a demanding definition: justice means nothing less than ending relationships of dominance and subordination. By that standard, the legal system comes up short. Courts often reproduce the very hierarchies that made the abuse possible, in the way they treat survivors’ testimony, assign credibility, and let power shape outcomes. Herman describes in detail how hard and slow cultural change is, and she doesn’t offer false comfort. But she also documents new paradigms of justice emerging, built around what survivors themselves say they need: truth, acknowledgment, accountability, and repair.

For readers in the psychedelic and trauma field, the book is a useful corrective. It is a reminder that healing individuals while leaving the conditions that injure them untouched is an incomplete project. In my own work on the Vampirocene, I draw heavily on Herman’s analysis, and Truth and Repair sharpens the conclusion I have reached from it. The basic dynamic of tyranny, from the abusive household to the authoritarian state, is trauma-based mind control. Domination is secured less by force than by the systematic production of terror, helplessness, isolation, and shame, which reorganize the victim’s perception, loyalty, and sense of self around the dominator. Through traumatic bonding, dissociation, and identification with the aggressor, the dominated come to defend the order that harms them, and bystanders learn to look away in order to stay safe. Patriarchy is the first school of this method. It teaches it within the family, where it is practiced on the smallest and most dependent, and from there it scales up into culture. The Vampirocene is this same mechanism at a civilizational level: an order that feeds on the life of the many for the benefit of the few and keeps itself in place through chronic, collective traumatization rather than through consent. Seen this way, Herman’s definition of justice as the end of dominance and subordination is both an ethical demand and a precondition for freeing our minds. It is also why survivors’ own visions of justice matter so much: they are the people who know from the inside how this control works and how it breaks.

This is Herman at her best: clear, unsentimental, and committed. It belongs on the shelf of every clinician, jurist, and citizen who takes trauma seriously.

I have two interrelated observations and a question, and I'm going to ask them as clearly as I can because I'm not an expert. I have had some DSM-V training because I'm a professor in a related field. I hope this post meets the sub's rules.

1. The diagnosis of autism seems extremely broad to me. I know it's on a spectrum, but people who get the diagnosis seem to diverge wildly from each other, stretching my understanding of what a clinical diagnosis means.

2. Nonetheless, autism seems to me to capture just one cluster (in multidimensional space, currently pretty diffuse) of how neurodivergence could manifest. I do know other diagnoses fit under the umbrella of "neurodivergence" (ADHD, sensory issues, processing issues, learning disabilities, etc.), but I'm speaking of the more global neurodevelopmental space captured by something like autism instead of a narrow diagnosis like dyslexia.

What I'm wondering is this: is there research going on that could eventually split the autism diagnosis into multiple diagnostic categories, perhaps analogous to the personality disorder clusters? How does the field view any such efforts?

I know the DSM is always evolving, so I'm curious where the field is on something like this.

II have an MS in Biochemistry and am currently pursuing a second major in Psychology. Although I am no longer working in research, I enjoy reading scientific papers to ensure that the information I use is evidence based and want to use their findings for educational content on my psychology page.

My main concern is ensuring that the information I share is reliable. I usually skim the Methods section, but critically evaluating every methodological detail in every paper can be mentally exhausting and time-consuming. I am concerned about either overlooking important methodological limitations or spending so much time evaluating individual studies that I become inefficient.

For those with experience in psychological research, how do you approach evaluating research papers when your goal is to communicate evidence-based information to a general audience?

A few months ago I came across this post on LinkedIn and it was of this hijabi girl (description to identify) who presented a research during a conference in uae, pretty sure she studies here as well, something about false memories and being unable to distinguish reality from false memories. I found it so interesting but at the time didn’t have time to read and I thought I had saved the post but I didn’t. And now I desperately need to find it so if anyone knows what I’m talking about please help me out. I remember seeing some brain imagining of sorts on the slides behind her, if it’s of any help .

I am working on a personal project, and would love the opinion and critiques of a professional psychologist on my attempt at a simplistic model of the human behaviour, as well as ask a few specific questions about it (around 20-30 minutes should do).

I don't want to publicly reveal the model (it's nothing special and is pretty bad, hence the need for some constructional critique), I just want it to be a secret until my project is done.

I would really appreciate a voice call over discord or something else, but over text also works. As such feel free to dm me with your preferred method of communication, your discord id if needed, and your age. Thanks!

When you are conducting in-person interviews, do you appreciate the interviewee coming in and shaking hands with you or find it weird? Being in the field of psychology, I wonder if it is acceptable to assume that everyone will be comfortable with shaking hands. Thoughts?

Hello! We have a stats protect due soon where we have to register, but we were not really taught how to do it correctly. Are there any templates or research articles that helped you with pre-registration? TIA

Hi. Basically what the title says.

I'm really interested in learning more about it than I have so far. I am not an avid reader though so I wouldn't mind if it had a clear language that is relatively easy to understand. I don't mind it if it's lengthy, I would prefer it to not be too long, but clear language is more important.

Key things I was to know more about/learn about: what parentification actually is, how it happens and what environment cultivates it, how it compares to the experience of usual and/or ideal rearing styles and what can be done to correct it, both in teenage years, but especially adulthood and most importantly, the short and long term consequences it has on the people experiencing it.

Thank you in advance

Human emotional complexity is practically limitless. No academic curriculum, however comprehensive, can fully capture it.
But could formal training sometimes create its own limitations?
When therapists are trained to understand human behaviour through established theories and frameworks, do they subconsciously begin fitting people into those learned categories rather than understanding each person on their own terms?
I’m not questioning the value of education. I’m wondering whether the very frameworks that help therapists understand people can also create blind spots.
What are your thoughts?

I'm currently in my sophomore year and I'm already working in a research lab (specifically focused on neuroscience and social behavior). i really want to be a clinical neuropsychologist, but i absolutely suck at general biology and chemistry. ive dropped chemistry THRICE now and im debating dropping biology today as I have a D in the class and a C in the lab. otherwise, im an honors student and have a 3.8 gpa, so im not a bad student by any means, and i feel i could get into a clinical psych program pretty easily if i dropped my neuro minor (so id only be required to take one science, so id take physics bc its really easy at my uni). however, i dont know if specializing in clinical neuropsych would then be more challenging if i didnt take bio or chem. im still planning on taking all of the neuroscience classes i can, but just avoiding those that have a bio or chem prerequisite. so please give me your thoughts! i know i could power through but i know itd ruin my gpa, and if i could get to the same place without it, id much prefer that.

also, if yall could give advice fairly quickly id appreciate it bc todays the last day to drop :') i have 4 more exams that i could technically use to get my grade up, but again, i dont know if i have the time with my psych exams being usually the same day or close to, and my research job taking up most of my time.

I keep reading that most PhD programs in America are completely paid for, at least for psychology, as well as providing students with a monthly stipend. I find this really hard to believe, does anyone know if this is true? I’m a sophomore in college right now, I’m leaning towards neuropsychology, but I don’t know how I will be able to pay for it if it really isn’t funded.

I'm in search of Jean Baechler's PhD thesis on suicide, presented in 1975. Does anyone know any website in which I can find old thesis to read? Hopefully a free/cheap option. Thanks.

Hey there! I'm an undergrad in Psychology and I was looking to do an internship, research, or work, related to Psychology outside of Canada. Some of the places I was thinking about was Italy, Brazil, or France but l am open.

Does anyone have any recommendations on where I should look. Or advice for how to go about it? Has anyone done this before? What was your experience?

Let me know! Thanks!!