Almost everyone has seen it or even have personal experiences with what is commonly called ‘addictive relationships’. These are the forms of relationships where everyone around a particular couple might raise their hands in disbelief over why both partners are still together. There might be a strong and obvious imbalance between both of them, sometimes […]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) was very much one of the centers of attention during the last years of psychological research. Posttraumatic stress disorders may develop when  people are exposed to life-threatening situations – such as natural disasters, assassinations, sexual abuse or war events. It is estimated that up to 50% of all U.S. soldiers returning […]

Antidepressants are now the best-selling drugs in the USA – and their consumption has doubled in the last 10 years. This was established by a meta-analysis of studies from 1996 to 2005 among 50,000 children and adults and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Currently 10 percent of Americans – about 27 million people […]