Feeling a lack of control over one’s own fate is arguably a large characteristic found in different types of mental anguish and suffering. Being able to understand the self is a method of gaining some of that control.
Different types of therapies have their own methods for attempting to achieve this goal. In [...]
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What makes a therapist? Certainly, there are different styles to every craft. But, there seem to be so many fundamentally different ways of functioning in the role of a therapist from psychoanalysis, to dialectical-behavioral, to interpersonal, among many others.
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Each of these groups can have positive and negative things to say of the other [...] -
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Question: Was Freud’s method of creating psychoanalysis a meditation of free-assocation?
Meditation
As used by humanity for millennia, meditation has been a powerful tool and exercise.
It begins with a focused concentration on one object. That object can be something concrete like a leaf or something abstract like a relationship. The [...] -
What is it about the online world that can so dramatically change a person’s experience of herself and the people around her? Is it the very language people use to communicate that carry these substantial effects on experience?
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In multi-lingual families, members will often find themselves switching back and forth between languages in order [...] -
Improvisation is the process of developing an observing ego. This ego learns to be without censorship. Rather it observes the notes, phrases, and concepts emanating from within. The “within” is the unconscious.
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In the process, the ego, as a part of consciousness, begins to understand what comes out from the unconscious. As it [...]
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