Title: Mental Rigidity - Exploring your mind
Headings: Mental Rigidity
Mental Rigidity
Mental rigidity
The need for cognitive closure
Are you close-minded?

Content: These are people who try to adapt the world to their own minds and not the other way around. This word, among many others that have been popularized, has more depth when you look at it from a psychologist’s perspective. The word “close-minded” has different variants in psychology. We’ll focus on two of them, since their meanings are quite similar. Mental rigidity
Mental rigidity involves a lack of flexibility and open-mindedness towards seeing ideas from different perspectives, towards withstanding criticism of something we believe in, and towards living instead of surviving. This term has been used frequently in clinical psychology as a phenomenon, a symptom, and a personality feature. Here are some examples: As a clinical phenomenon, psychoanalysis describes mental rigidity as a patient’s resistance to change or something else they want to avoid. This definition is very similar to the way we use it daily. One example would be a patient’s mental rigidity towards love or commitment, which makes these things even harder to achieve.