Ambivalence points to bipolarity, which causes a thought movement between contradictory states (i.e love and hate, peace and violence, happiness and sorrow, good and evil etc.). These extremes affections, act like two ends of a see-saw, unable to balance the state of affections and keep moving from one state to another, hence the distress. It is a common experience that if the mind settles in…
The simplest statement to define Reflective Emotional Therapy(RET) is “we feel ourselves by feeling for others”. We build self concept based on reflection from numerous emotional relationship that we experience throughout our life. You might become disappointed if a relationship breaks before fulfillment. This disappointment can lead to serious ego conflict. The ego splits into two parts. One part forms the ego-ideal and the other…
The circumstances than may recommend the need for therapy vary from person to person. Following are few common situations recommends the need for therapy. You face a problem/distress and that disrupts your peace and affects your functioning in life. You feel that you are not able to mange your problem/distress on your own and needs assistance. Always seek for a professional. Other people are trying…
You can share your inner most emotions with your therapist. Anything you may talk with your therapist will be completely confidential. Disclosure to a third person can only happen with your consent. Anything you share about yourself will help the therapist get a better picture of your problem. You can bring any concern regarding your problem to your therapy session. Most often or may be…
In this paper Freud states that mourning and melancholia share common features, such as inhibition of activity, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of capacity to love etc. One prominent factor that distinguishes melancholia is loss of self regard, which is absent in case of mourning. Mourning most often is a reaction to loss of an object due to death, loss of an…
You might wonder why depression is so common phenomenon the civilized world. It sounds as if, human race would have become stagnant and might even gone extinct if depression hadn’t set in the premises of human life. Are we too beautiful to say that I am zero percent depressed? There is a secret depression is hiding beneath it’s horrific darkness. Every analysand lying on the…