Is Psychoanalytic Therapy useful ?

Was I mentally ill? I suppose I was, though the first time someone in my family used the phrase “verge of a nervous breakdown”, or something like it, I was taken aback. Probably I was about as far from well as it was possible to be while still going about my business: essays, lectures, friends… Continue reading Is Psychoanalytic Therapy useful ?

How Psychoanalysis influenced the field of Psychology

Psychoanalysis is defined as a set of psychological theories and therapeutic techniques that have their origin in the work and theories of Sigmund Freud. The core of psychoanalysis is the belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories. Psychoanalysis suggests that people can experience catharsis and gain insight into their current state of mind by… Continue reading How Psychoanalysis influenced the field of Psychology

Sticking plaster over a deep wound

Listen to the BBC Radio 4 coverage of the joint BPC & UKCP survey on quality psychotherapy services in the NHS, published earlier this year  Service user Louisa, shares her experience of psychotherapy services, both in the NHS and privately, poignantly describing lower intensity treatments as a sticking plaster over a deep wound and that… Continue reading Sticking plaster over a deep wound

Anxiety Symptoms?

The Clinical Symptomatology of Anxiety Neurosis. This list is compiled from – Freud,S. (1925-26). In Vol.10, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. P.94-97. The first person account, the ‘I’, mentioned at times in the list is Freud’s voice.  The clinical picture of anxiety neurosis comprises the following symptoms:   General irritability. Common nervous symptom. “Increased irritability always… Continue reading Anxiety Symptoms?

What is Trauma and How We Try to Master It

In one of his earliest essays, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Sigmund Freud discusses the case of a boy, one and a half years old, who develops a game to deal with the trauma that he suffers for the first time when his mother, who he is very attached to, goes away for a prolonged… Continue reading What is Trauma and How We Try to Master It

Relationships ?

To sum it up, people gain more depth and personality when they allow themselves to create more space for the other person to be and the other person returns the gesture.

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Why is Meditation Difficult ?

People have trouble meditating because we are so programmed to structure our thinking through various routines, it is difficult to try something unstructured which feels empty.

Is your Therapist Mindful?

A key innovative teaching of the Buddha was that meditative stabilisation must be combined with liberating discernment.