Reflective Emotional Therapy: Unraveling the secrets of your Self

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…

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…