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Back in the 60s and 70s, before the sexual revolution had really taken hold, the standard dating advice for women was play hard to get. In some quarters it still is.
Like the Roman poet Ovid 2,000 years earlier, “Easy things nobody wants, but what is forbidden is tempting.” Social scientists in the 1960s accepted the [...]

Apart from the Briggs Myer Indicator I tend to ignore these types of psychological questionnaire, but this is close to how I would describe myself.
You are Spirit
You are resilient, hopeful, and inspiring.
You have a lot of emotional, physical, and mental energy.
You nurture and nourish yourself.
You know that you need fulfilment and downtime if you want to [...]

Gerard Egan, PhD, is a Professor of Organisation Development and Psychology and author of The Skilled Helper. He has written over a dozen books, some in the field of counselling, including Interpersonal Living and People in Systems. The Skilled Helper is currently the most widely used counselling text in the world.
Most of the counselling work [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2010) — There’s no doubt that meeting partners on the Internet is a growing trend. But can we trust the information that people provide about themselves via online dating services? And why is depression so dissatisfying in relationships? These two questions are explored in articles appearing in the latest issue of the [...]

Is kindness contagious? Research shows that witnessing simple acts of kindness, such as holding open a door for someone, giving up your seat on the bus or helping someone in distress, encourages us to think more positively about the human condition and behave in a more caring way.
Witnessing simple acts of kindness has been shown [...]

Self-harm, also known as self-injury, self-inflicted violence, self-injurious behaviour, or self-mutilation, can be defined as the deliberate, direct injury of one’s own body that causes tissue damage or leave marks for more than a few minutes and that is done in order to deal with an overwhelming or distressing situation.
Approximately 1% of the population has, [...]