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  2. Dependent personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people. This personality disorder is a long-term condition [1] in which people depend on others to meet their emotional and physical needs.

  3. Dark triad - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the triad. The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, [1] that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.

  4. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Developmental psychology generally focuses on how and why certain changes (cognitive, social, intellectual, personality) occur over time in the course of a human life. Many theorists have made a profound contribution to this area of psychology. One of them, Erik Erikson developed a model of eight stages of psychological development. He believed ...

  5. Phenomenology (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Phenomenology or phenomenological psychology, a sub-discipline of psychology, is the scientific study of subjective experiences. [1] It is an approach to psychological subject matter that attempts to explain experiences from the point of view of the subject via the analysis of their written or spoken words. [ 2 ]

  6. LGBTQ psychology - Wikipedia

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    LGBTQ psychology stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology. This list is not inclusive to all people within the community and the plus represents other identities not covered within the acronym. In the past this field was known as lesbian and gay psychology. [4] Now it also includes bisexual and transgender identities and ...

  7. Codependency - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, codependency is a theory that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior [1] such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.

  8. Splitting (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Splitting (also called binary thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes) is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole.

  9. Sport psychology - Wikipedia

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    Sport psychology is defined as the study of the psychological basis, ... The method of measuring personality involves assessing the traits, ... [101] Role of ...