When do I need therapy?

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…

What can I expect from my therapist?

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…

Summary of S. Freud’s paper “Mourning and Melancholia”

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…

Depression is a hope

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…