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How do I find the right therapist for me?
Therapy is most effective when you feel safe and connected with your therapist. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or just looking for personal growth, this guide will help you navigate the process of finding a therapist who truly meets your needs. Taking the time to find the right match can make all the difference in your healing journey, empowering you to thrive and live a more fulfilling life.
Secrets of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Explore the untapped depths of Myers-Briggs personality typing with our revealing insights. Discover lesser-known interpretations that illuminate hidden facets of your personality, offering new perspectives on self-understanding and interpersonal dynamics. Uncover the secrets within your type that can lead to profound personal growth and deeper connections with others.
The hidden dangers of passive-aggressive behavior.
Passive-aggression has become so normalized that the average person would probably never describe it as dangerous, but it is an insidious, incredibly harmful form of communication.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
One man had the insight simply that not all thinking is conscious. The idea of the conscious necessitates the possibility of the unconscious. How could there be unthought thoughts? Could there be memories that weren’t remembered, feelings that weren’t felt? Psychoanalysis is predicated on the idea that if you aren’t thinking your thoughts, you have to go find them.
Attachment is how we learn the meaning of “special.”
Maternal deprivation and separation disrupts attachment in a very specific way: it prevents the formation of a long-term relationship with a figure who has been discriminated from others as reliably safe.
Defense mechanisms are crucial to good mental health - but not in the way you think.
We now know that defense mechanisms, or nonconscious information processing, work to protect a fragile or underdeveloped ego against either feeling something that the individual doesn’t want to feel, knowing something the individual doesn’t want to know, or experiencing something the individual doesn’t want to experience. What is lesser known is how central primitive defense mechanisms are to personality disorders and disorders of the self.
