Sex Phobia (Erotophobia): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Sex Phobia (erotophobia): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Sex is supposed to be a space for connection, pleasure, and intimacy. For many people, though, it reliably evokes fear, disgust, or a powerful urge to retreat. When anxiety around sexual thoughts, feelings, or situations becomes persistent enough to interfere with relationships or quality of life, clinicians describe the pattern as erotophobia — also commonly … Read more

Kissing Phobia (filemaphobia): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Kissing Phobia (filemaphobia): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Filemaphobia, also known as filematophobia, is the phobia of kisses. Phobias are anxiety disorders in which those who suffer from them feel great fear when coming into contact with the phobic stimulus, which causes great anxiety and, as a consequence, the attempt to avoid said stimulus. Kisses are a great sign of love, but people … Read more

Reality Therapy by William Glasser

Reality Therapy by William Glasser

Most therapeutic approaches ask you to look backward — to examine your childhood, unpack your trauma, and trace the roots of your suffering. Reality therapy asks a different question: What do you want right now, and what are you doing to get it? Developed by psychiatrist William Glasser in the 1960s, reality therapy is a … Read more

6 Good Tips (and Habits) to Boost Your Self-esteem

6 Good Tips (and Habits) to Boost Your Self Esteem

Self-esteem is one of the psychological constructs that has been most addressed since Abraham Maslow included it as a fundamental component in his Hierarchy of Human Needs (1943). There have been very numerous authors who have confirmed the relationship between self-esteem and emotional well-being among whom it is worth highlighting Carl Rogers (psychologist who proposed … Read more

Fear of Penises (phallophobia): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Fear of Penises (phallophobia): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Phobias are one of the most frequent reasons why patients visit a psychologist. There are different types of phobias, and within specific phobic disorders we can find hydrophobia (fear of water), aerophobia (fear of flying) or arachnophobia (fear of spiders), among others. One of the specific phobias that is not so common but is very … Read more

The 8 Types of Strategies Against Memory Loss

The 8 Types of Strategies Against Memory Loss

Although not all people suffer from them, worsening memory and other types of cognitive impairment are common consequences of aging, especially when it is pathological. In this article we will describe eight types of strategies against memory loss which can be very useful to compensate for the typical deterioration of old age. We will divide … Read more