relational psychotherapy
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The Myth of Confidence: Examining the Forgotten Virtue of Courage through Psychoanalytic Lenses
“The enduring allure of Hamlet’s personal travails—his waning confidence over courage and his emotionality overpowering his rationality—have captured the hearts and minds of audiences for generations. However, to truly appreciate the relationship between confidence and courage in the broadest sense, one might question whether, in recent years, confidence has taken a more prominent position, overshadowing… Continue reading
Adam Phillips, Alfred Adler, Analyses, analytical history, Archetype, Confidence, Consciousness, Courage, cultural unconscious, Dialectic, Essay, ethical intuitionism, Freud, Hamlet, Idealised self, individuation, integrationist, integrative psychotherapy, interdisciplinary, Karen Horney, Myth, Myth of Confidence, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical History, Psychodynamic, real self, Relational psychoanalytic, relational psychotherapy, Social InterestAdam Phillips, adversity, Alfred Adler, Confidence, confidence vs courage, Courage, critical thinking, death anxiety, Desire, Education, ego, empirical research, Empowerment, Ethics, Freud, human psychology, id, idealized self, inferiority complex, Karen Horney psychoanalysis, leadership, Mental health, Neuroimaging, neurosis psychoanalytic theory, Oedipal complex, Paul Wadey, pedagogy, policy, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, Psychology, real self, Resilience, self-assurance, self-doubt, self-efficacy, self-esteem, Social Interest, social rejection, superego, terror management theory, unconscious, unconscious drivers, unconscious fears, vulnerability, vulnerability and courage -
Colouring Connections: A Crayon Analogy for Crittenden’s Dynamic-Maturational Model
Patricia Crittenden’s Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment is a pivotal contribution in this domain, which posits that individuals craft attachment strategies as adaptive reactions to their caregiving environments. These strategies, anchored in early life experiences, remain flexible, adapting to present contexts and historical traumas. This paper introduces the crayon analogy to elucidate the manifold nature… Continue reading
adult attachment, attachment-style, child attachment, Cognitive Development, Crittenden, DMM, Emotion Regulation, emotional development, Paul Wadey, Psychoanalytical History, Psychodynamic, Psychology, Relational psychoanalytic, relational psychotherapy, Sociabilityadult attachment, adult attachment styles, ambivalent attachment, Attachment, attachment psychotherapy, attachment strategies, attachment styles, attachment theory, avoidant attachment, childhood attachment, childhood attachment styles, childhood trauma, crayon analogy, Crittenden, disorganised attachment, DMM, dynamic-maturational model, Patricia Crittenden, Paul Wadey, Psychotherapy, secure attachment -
Truth Anchors: Correspondence, Coherence and Progress in the Digital Storm
In this essay, I want to inquire into the relation between public and private truth by drawing together schools of philosophy, the psychoanalytic process, and the impact of advanced digital technology. The therapeutic journey, like society’s broader truth-seeking, reveals how we negotiate between empirical reality and subjective experience. Likewise, the digital age demands similar discernment… Continue reading
Age of Reason, Analyses, Coherence, correspondence, Dialectic, emotional development, Essay, Philosophy, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Psychodynamic, psychotherapy, artificial intelligence, aura, Freud, psychoanalysis, therapy, technology, ethics, humanism, automation, virtual therapy, chatbots, medical model, insight, meaning, self-knowledge, rapp, Relational psychoanalytic, relational psychotherapy, Safe uncertainty, truthabsolutism, Coherence, Consciousness, correspondence, digital age, discernment, ego, empathy, empiricism, enlightenment, Epistemology, Ethics, id, identity, interpretation, Knowledge, logic, meaning, metaphysics, modernity, ontology, Paradox, Paul Wadey, Philosophy, Postmodernism, private, psychoanalysis, Psychology, public, relativism, science, self, social media, Social Sciences, Technology, transference, truth, unconscious, verification