Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
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The Return of the Repressed: Pseudonymisation in the Digital Age
How is our online world reshaping the unconscious? This essay insightfully dissects how perceived anonymity online enables the return of repressed impulses, for better or worse. Blending psychoanalytic theory with ethics, it investigates digital self-expression through the veil of pseudonyms. A thoughtful read for understanding technology’s impacts on psychology and society. Continue reading
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Towards a Mindful Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
“While arising from different traditions, psychoanalysis and mindfulness offer complementary windows into the workings of the mind. Psychoanalysis reveals the depths of the unconscious forces shaping personality, while mindfulness illuminates the nature of conscious experience. Integrating these perspectives provides a more holistic understanding of the factors generating suffering and pathways for healing.” Continue reading
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Questioning the Question: A Therapist’s Guide to the Delicate Art of Interventive Interviewing
In psychotherapy the questions we ask signally shape the therapeutic process. Karl Tomm’s inspiring paper ‘Interventive Interviewing: Intending to Ask Lineal, Circular, Strategic or Reflexive Questions?’ provides critical insights into the impactfulness of different questioning techniques. This essay will focus specifically on the role of questioning in relational-based psychotherapy. I want to examine three questions… Continue reading
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“As psychotherapists, we are neither casual observers nor scientists studying the journeying of the Other from afar. We are fellow travellers, experienced ethical people navigating the contoured landscape of human experiences, sharing insights along that shared path, gently challenging assumptions or biases, and learning from our clients as they chose a path away from the… Continue reading
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The Myth of Fear | w4dey
In the library of literature on human emotions fear holds a unique space in our fascination, and for good reason. It is a fundamental emotion, its phylogenetic roots measured in evolutionary time. It is not hyperbole to say that natural history, our societies, our histories, even our identities have all, to some degree, been carved… Continue reading