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Resilience: More Than Preventing Negative Outcomes
Resilience is typically studied as either a recovery/ bouncing back factor where you return to baseline levels of functioning before an acute stressor had occurred, or as a sustainability factor where you continue performing/ adapting well despite the presence of a chronic stressor. How resilience is typically operationalised, in terms of outcome, is whether the […] (Source: The Mouse Trap)
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: resilience flourishing psychopathology Source Type: podcasts

Resilience: More Than Preventing Negative Outcomes
Resilience is typically studied as either a recovery/ bouncing back factor where you return to baseline levels of functioning before an acute stressor had occurred, or as a sustainability factor where you continue performing/ adapting well despite the presence of a chronic stressor. How resilience is typically operationalised, in terms of outcome, is whether the individual survives the acute trauma/stressor and/or chronic stress and still remains psychopathology free. If he doesn’t then he is non resilient, but if he indeed remains free of negative outcomes then he is resilient. Sometimes, very rarely, in case of...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: resilience flourishing psychopathology Source Type: podcasts

Attention Networks: The role of NE
Attention has been studied heavily and as per a popular model of attention by Posner et al, we have 3 systems for attention: alerting, orienting and an executive control network. Now let me propose a radical fourth network for the same, but before I do that I want to clear some misconceptions about attention. Way back in 2009 I had blogged and elaborated on a couple of posts that attention allocation and action selection utilized the same mechanisms and were conceptually similar; at that time I was not much aware of the Posner et al model of attention. Today I want to go further and claim that attention processes are in...
Source: The Mouse Trap - June 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: attention neurotransmitters Source Type: podcasts

Dualistic model of Passion, Perseverance, Purpose and Persona
Some of you may be already familiar with the Dualistic Model of Passion as advocated by Robert Vallerand et al. To recap, passion is of two types: harmonious and obsessive. Both of them have different antecedents (autonomous vs controlled integration) and different consequents ( well-being vs Mal-adaptive). I wont go deep into what an obsessive […] (Source: The Mouse Trap)
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: positive psychology DMP grit passion SDT Source Type: podcasts

Dualistic model of Passion, Perseverance, Purpose and Persona
Some of you may be already familiar with the Dualistic Model of Passion as advocated by Robert Vallerand et al. To recap, passion is of two types: harmonious and obsessive. Both of them have different antecedents (autonomous vs controlled integration) and different consequents ( well-being vs Mal-adaptive). I wont go deep into what an obsessive or harmonious passion is; suffice it to say that in harmonious passion you can be passionate about more than one activity, the activity is not all consuming; while in obsessive passion the activity has control over you than vice versa and you feel pressured to spend time in the a...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: positive psychology DMP grit passion SDT Source Type: podcasts

Transcend: Standing on the shoulders of Maslow
This post is a book review of ‘Transcend: The new science of self-actualization ‘ by Scott Barry Kaufman. He, and his publishers, were kind enough to send an advance copy and I think the review is just in time, as the book is formally published, and the virtual book tour gets kick-started. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and emerged wiser and kinder for having read it. I am not sure how far I am, or my reader is, on the path to self transcendence, but whatever may be your current station on your journey, you will find some much needed guidance and help here. At least I did. The book on the outset i...
Source: The Mouse Trap - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review positive psychology Maslow Maslow's hierarchy of needs Self-actualization Source Type: podcasts

Transcend: Standing on the shoulders of Maslow
This post is a book review of‘Transcend: The new science of self-actualization‘ by Scott Barry Kaufman. He, and his publishers, were kind enough to send an advance copy and I think the review is just in time, as the book is formally published, and the virtual book tour gets kick-started. I [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) (Source: The Mouse Trap)
Source: The Mouse Trap - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review positive psychology Maslow Maslow's hierarchy of needs Self-actualization Source Type: podcasts

Emotions and Motivations
I have written a series of posts about emotions and personality and regular readers will know my fascination and commitment to the eight basic emotions perspective. I have also written about the four fundamental drives/ motivations; as a matter of fact my Psychology Today blog was titled The Fundamental Four. Today I wish to connect the dots. Till today, I myself was confused as to what is a motivational subsystem and what is an emotional subsystem and if my blog posts conflated the two and created confusions, I apologize. I have now come to believe that emotions are the reading by our mind of how our body is doing. Thi...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion motivation eight basic emotions motvations panksepp Source Type: podcasts