Christina Maragkaki, M. Psych.
Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapist 

According to DSM-IV-TR, PTSD surfaces after a traumatic event that may have caused death or has threatened physically the person or people involved. The event is being re-experienced over and over again, either as a flashback or a dream, which causes difficulties concentrating or difficulties falling or staying asleep. Through the lenses of cognitive model, PTSD surfaces and is sustained due to the individual´s cognitive processes and autobiographical memories that views the

As each science pursues each study from a certain point of view, it quickly became clear that in order to understand man and his environment as part of interacting systems, it had to study this interaction from multiple perspectives, holistically. Examining holistically an illness, such as depression, provides us the right tools to unravel all the aspects that have caused and sustained the illness along with ways to treat it. According to Friedrich Hegel ´´the whole is more t

Language has the power to form and shape the way we think and that is the reason why when we hear words like madness, what immediately comes to mind is a chaotic and ´´severe unwieldiness´´ of mind that produces bizarre and ´´out of the ordinary´´ behavior. The same applies for the world misery that can be defined as a state of unhappiness, despair and distress. Both of these meanings are closely correlated to the beliefs of the Greek culture, even though their meanings have

Many behaviors that we adopt along the way have negative effects on our bodies and as a result on our lives. For example, bad eating habits, consumption of diet sodas, lack of exercise/sedentary lifestyle, and last but not least sleep deprivation. Scientifically has been proven that individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep per night are more likely to be overweight. In addition, there is a link between lack of sleep and hormonal changes that leads to alteration of a

Music has the power to transform someone´s life. Across culture and through history, we find evidence that indicate the need of human beings to express themselves through music. It has been proven scientifically that the musical instinct has its own basis in biology. According to Lea Wolf and Dr. Thomas Wolf, ´´music has been shown to stimulate the brain’s primary engines of human capacity. Musical engagement exercises attentional networks and executive function, evokes emoti

Being in a relationship is a beautiful thing but at the same time demanding and sometimes hard. There are days that we cannot stand even our own self, imagine having to deal with the emotional luggage of the other person. Also, finding a balance and a sense of fairness in a relationship is very challenging. No one likes to feel exploited or be treated unfairly. In order to determine whether the benefits and costs in a relationship are being given and received fairly, we use t

I decided my first piece here to be about Fashion, as I believe that fashion is the ''skin'' that we choose to wear day-in and day-out. Many ''coachees'' ask me why I pay attention and talk about fashion (while working towards their inner goals) and the answer is simple '' What we wear, is in a way a reflection of our inner world/state, and it has to do all with how we are being perceived by others''. It may be superficial to some, but fashion was, is and always will be extre