Psychological Health and Help

Library Of Knowledge About Myself
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Library Of Knowledge About Myself

Usually people, believing that they have studied themselves well and know, rely on a library of knowledge about themselves. In human life, a lot of things happened, a lot of things made an impression on a person, they remembered - all this was deposited in the library of knowledge (speaking about this, I imagine a library card index, where some data are written on each card, and my friend, IT woman, uses the term "

A Little About Personality
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A Little About Personality

Once someone took and invented the concept of "personality", which, it would seem, should have beautifully explained almost all the secrets of the functioning of the human psyche. In fact, it turned out that it confused everyone even more.

No Man - No Problem What Do You Know About Rejection?
Psychology

No Man - No Problem What Do You Know About Rejection?

The most important human need after satisfying physiological needs is to be loved, to have reliable attachment. It's scary when you realize that your closest people - your parents - don't like you. Here is an example of such a sad story.

Autothelic Personality: Results
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Autothelic Personality: Results

A healthy, rich and powerful person has no advantage over the sick, the poor and the weak when it comes to gaining control over their minds. The difference between the one who enjoys life and the one whom it carries like a sliver arises as a result of the combination of these external factors and the way of their interpretation chosen by the subject - whether he sees in the challenge thrown down to him by life, a threat or an opportunity for action.

Vitality Of Psychotherapists - Problem Analysis
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Vitality Of Psychotherapists - Problem Analysis

In the crisis conditions of the development of society, accompanied by unemployment and other economic hardships, the problem of professional viability becomes especially acute (Kondratenko). The need for professional psychotherapeutic assistance is currently extremely urgent due to social instability, lack of values and meanings in the family and society, natural disasters.

How To Get Started With Goal Setting
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How To Get Started With Goal Setting

Many people say that they are definitely determined to change their life and do everything possible to turn it on a successful track. Especially such a rise is observed in many after successful personal growth trainings. On this positive wave, a person analyzes the path traveled, realizes that much should be done differently than before.

Nastya And Cinderella: Territory Of Dislike
Psychology

Nastya And Cinderella: Territory Of Dislike

Inability to receive love from the Other leads to an inability to love oneself. In my article, I again turn to fairy-tale characters. Taking as an example the characters of the fairy tales "Frost" and "Cinderella", I will look at them "

10 Most Effective Ways To Get Depressed
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10 Most Effective Ways To Get Depressed

10 most effective ways to get depressed 1. Don't take care of your life, take care of someone else's. Sacrifice yourself for the sake of someone, preferably, sacrifice diligently, completely forgetting about yourself. Remember that your needs are so unimportant compared to the fact that someone else wants something too.

The Therapy Is Over, Forget
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The Therapy Is Over, Forget

Surely, many in their psychological practice faced cases of a kind of persecution from the client after the end of therapy. This can be expressed in the desire of the person to maintain contact with you in any form, without asking for further advice.

Curiosity Vs Failure
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Curiosity Vs Failure

When things don't go the way they want. When everything falls out of hand. When you don't know where to get strength and energy for the next step. And when you don't know where, in fact, to go. Because every your trip somewhere - even to the goal, even in search of yourself, or even in the desire to become (wow

Be On Your Side
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Be On Your Side

Remember we said Most likely you discovered that the Inner Critic is a soup of different voices of significant adults in your childhood. Once upon a time, you didn't have the opportunity to stop it. But now you've grown. And you can do it.

Prohibition On Life: How To Understand Your Desires
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Prohibition On Life: How To Understand Your Desires

A parental prohibition on life or a script message "Don't live" is most often adopted by a child in the form of a prohibition to want, to have desires of his own. Often the prohibition against desire is expressed in the role of the Rescuer, who learns to enjoy life through the joy of fulfilling the desires of other people.

The Crisis Of The Meaning Of Life. A Turning Point In The Lives Of 35-45 Year Olds
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The Crisis Of The Meaning Of Life. A Turning Point In The Lives Of 35-45 Year Olds

Reading the works of E. Erickson, I come across his description of the existential crisis in people. It seems that a person lives, but he has no meaning in life. Or it seems there is a meaning in life, but only a person sees that this meaning is not his.

Why Is It Important To Respect Yourself?
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Why Is It Important To Respect Yourself?

Have you ever faced a state when you don't want anything or everything is annoying? Usually, in such situations, our condition can be characterized by the capacious expression "squeezed lemon". But after all, the matter does not end only with exhaustion.

The Inner Critic - What Is This And How To Deal With Him?
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The Inner Critic - What Is This And How To Deal With Him?

Annoying rot, potential eater, dwarf dwarf) or what would you call your Inner Critic? Yes, this comrade can pretty much ruin your life. How to be? Let's figure it out. Psychologists call it in a clever way) - the super-self, the controlling parent or autonomous negative thoughts, the Nagoski sisters in their book "

Anger Is Not Aggression
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Anger Is Not Aggression

Author: Oleg Chirkov Anger is an emotion. Aggression is action. Anger is what I feel. Aggression is what I do. Feeling and doing are not the same thing. Moreover, for the same feeling, you can choose different actions. You can be angry and not ashamed.

Failure Helps Us Win
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Failure Helps Us Win

We knew it, and then we forgot. We knew when we learned to walk, talk, hold a spoon … We fell, hurt ourselves, cried, then got up again, took the first step … Yes, sometimes we got down on all fours again, but the further, the more exciting and tempting life seemed to us on two legs.

Anxiety Testing Your Body's Reactions - What To Do
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Anxiety Testing Your Body's Reactions - What To Do

Neuroses are often accompanied by harsh perception - that is, a reaction of a violent, vivid reaction to quite ordinary life stimuli. One form of this harsh perception is the anxious test of your body's reactions. More often, such a reaction can be observed in anxiety disorders, hypochondria, hysterical neuroses and somatoform disorder, as well as with somatized depression.

Adolescent And Involutionary Depression
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Adolescent And Involutionary Depression

Adolescent and Involutionary Depression Often we are "attacked by blues", and this does not depend on age. We try to cope with it, and we often succeed even in this. We come up with rest and entertainment, we eat chocolate, bananas and other goodies.

Living “here And Now” Is A MYTH
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Living “here And Now” Is A MYTH

If you have opened an article and already think with indignation: "What nonsense !?" - because you respect this principle, it means that we are on the same side of the barricades! I also respect this principle when it is correctly interpreted.

Napoleon's Complex
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Napoleon's Complex

The Napoleon complex is a way of thinking and self-esteem of a man (often of small stature), in which he tries in every possible way to compensate for his lack. And it's not for nothing that this complex bears the name of the great commander and emperor, who came out of the lower classes and achieved everything in life on his own.

Closed Pose. Fear Or Desire To Support Yourself
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Closed Pose. Fear Or Desire To Support Yourself

A young, beautiful woman is being consulted. She came on time, took a diary and a pen with her, so what? She broadcasts a desire to take something away or give the impression of interest. She is very busy and closed. She talks about herself impulsively and slightly raising her head.

Hypnosis Therapy: Treatment Of Panic Attacks On The Examples Of Athletes From Dagestan
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Hypnosis Therapy: Treatment Of Panic Attacks On The Examples Of Athletes From Dagestan

Psychotherapy in sports today is like the Colosseum. It has existed for a long time, but can only be used for postcards. A deplorable state. Meanwhile, after the well-known events related to sports pharmaceuticals, the role of the psychotherapist, especially in elite sports, has risen to heaven.

The Line Between Psychotherapy And Idle Chatter
Mental

The Line Between Psychotherapy And Idle Chatter

Many articles have been written on how to choose the right psychologist. Good articles, with valuable recommendations, with selection criteria. And now, let's say, all the criteria are met and everything is fine. And the education of a specialist, and the number of his personal hours in psychotherapy, and membership in the professional community, and the paradigm in which he works, and the resume, and the promotional video, and articles, and customer reviews, and the price

7 Signs Of A Strong Personality
Mental

7 Signs Of A Strong Personality

Each of us grows and develops, but how strong are you? And even if you have completed only one of all the points listed below, do not be upset - be sure to write down the points that need to be worked out, and move towards the result. The main thing is not to lose heart and have faith in yourself, then sooner or later, but everything will work out.

Socrates' Secret
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Socrates' Secret

because in much wisdom there is much sorrow; and whoever multiplies knowledge multiplies sorrow Ecclesiastes 1:16 In the mouth of a modern person, it sounds like "The less you know, the harder you sleep." But human knowledge is very difficult to keep, and it was not for nothing that Adam and Eve ate an apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and not from the Tree of Life, which also grew in the Garden of Eden.

We Learn To Understand The Language Of The Unconscious. Two Simple Practices
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We Learn To Understand The Language Of The Unconscious. Two Simple Practices

How to learn to hear the voice of intuition? How to learn to understand the language of the unconscious? There are many books and courses that teach specific techniques. But we always have our own “teacher” “at hand” - our dreams. The content of the unconscious is brought into reality through dreams.

How To Survive During An Epidemic
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How To Survive During An Epidemic

One might say that diseases are genetically inherent in everyone and are inherited. Another will say that the sick person was not attentive enough to himself and neglected the rules of hygiene. There will certainly be someone who will say that "

Self-Esteem Trouble? - Wait For Devaluation
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Self-Esteem Trouble? - Wait For Devaluation

There are days when wounded pride separates us from the world, as if erecting an invisible wall between us and the life passing by us. The ego is trying to get our subjective sense of significance from the "bottom", where, at times, a coincidence and inadequate - as a rule, low - self-esteem instilled in childhood lead to it.

The Most Important Thing About Emotions
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The Most Important Thing About Emotions

Author: Kolesova Anna Alexandrovna Psychologist, Cognitive-Behavioral Direction - St. Petersburg Emotions are natural signals from the body that inform about the need for change. Emotions are a process. As long as we are alive, it cannot be stopped.

How To Be Closer To Yourself?
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How To Be Closer To Yourself?

I am for people to be as sincere with themselves and the world as possible. I am for each of us not to be afraid to be who he is. I am for people to be able to accept themselves and others. I am for each of us to have contact with ourselves.

Mental Fitness
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Mental Fitness

Psychologists are often faced with a request to return the old days, desire and energy, and most importantly, the desire to move on. You ask where desire, aspiration, ambition disappear. The answer is simple, unprocessed emotions. Emotion (from Lat.

Shershe La Maman
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Shershe La Maman

The psychologist is not Mukhtar, however, in unraveling the tangle of problems, sooner or later he will run into not just a woman, but a mother! So why wander in the dark for a long time when you can start by asking about your mom? Even, forcing his way through the resistance of the person himself.

Butterfly People. Life In A Cocoon
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Butterfly People. Life In A Cocoon

Author: Azamatova Galina - Luda, is it yours? Found it after school on the back desk. Elves, trolls, green mountains … Zhenya immediately understood whose it was. An eccentric girl in a hoodie hurriedly walked to the teacher's desk and took the disc with the game.

"Only This Is Not Enough" (about Greed, Emptiness, Hungry Unicorns And Needs)
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"Only This Is Not Enough" (about Greed, Emptiness, Hungry Unicorns And Needs)

Olga Demchuk Let's imagine a person who is thirsty and is given an apple instead. At the same time, he says: "Give me an apple." He himself sincerely does not know the words "water" and "drink." The apple also has water, and in order to quench its thirst, it will have to eat a certain amount.

How To Stop Helping Everyone? How To Stop Being A Lifeguard?
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How To Stop Helping Everyone? How To Stop Being A Lifeguard?

Tired of saving everyone - how to stop yourself? Are you familiar with this state? How to get rid of it? First, you need to understand what your inner need you are trying to satisfy in this way. There may be several options: The need to feel important and needed.

Why Is Muscle Tension Dangerous? Psychosomatics Of The Musculoskeletal System
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Why Is Muscle Tension Dangerous? Psychosomatics Of The Musculoskeletal System

A woman, a math teacher, applied for a consultation. She complained of a painful spasm in her leg, which occurred after experiencing unpleasant emotions during the lesson. A bit of anatomy Musculoskeletal system - a complex of bones, muscles and auxiliary formations that ensure the movement of body parts relative to each other and movement in the space of the body as a whole.

Even Better And So That Forever (perfectionists And Anxious People)
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Even Better And So That Forever (perfectionists And Anxious People)

Author: Zhukauskaite Vitalia How do you feel when all the processes are in place and everything is functioning well? For example, at work or in a relationship. Seems to enjoy the moment, get high. But no, the pens are itching! Worst thing to do - to start an alarming little hand in the debugged process:

Why So Beautiful (smart, Successful) And Alone?
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Why So Beautiful (smart, Successful) And Alone?

How often can you meet a very beautiful woman, but for some reason she is lonely and, as it sometimes turns out, she has not even had a serious relationship for a long time, but even just dates? Why is this happening? After all, she is beautiful, smart, successful and self-confident, and even without any exaggerated requirements, but simply wants to see the same successful and self-confident man next to her.

Feeling Of Sufficiency
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Feeling Of Sufficiency

Feeling of sufficiency For every client who comes to me for therapy, no matter what problem they face, this problem often hides a lack of inner confidence and low self-esteem. Can you truthfully say to yourself at the top of your voice, "

About The Principles Of Gestalt Therapy And Not Only
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About The Principles Of Gestalt Therapy And Not Only

Author: Shatinskaya Irina Something caught my eye - I could not pass by. Hooked. Fritz (Frederick) Perls is the "father" of gestalt therapy, have you heard of this, do you know about it? … We will assume that yes)) So, the three fundamental principles of his work with the client, the main provisions of his therapy, as I see it, generally have the right to become a concept of approach to life.

And I Recognize The Darling By The Way He Walks
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And I Recognize The Darling By The Way He Walks

"You left May with a flying gait", - Yu. Antonov sang) Is an image being created? Undoubtedly. And if you replace "flying" with a verb. She flies. And you can drag your feet. Mince. To chapat To comb. Write out. Trample.

We Don't Need Anything Human
Adulthood

We Don't Need Anything Human

In general, LJ is a very useful thing. And yesterday I was convinced of this for the thousandth time. You try both this and that formulation - to convey your idea. And you understand that all the same you will not convey it to many. Very sobering.

The Tendency To Notice Negativity
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The Tendency To Notice Negativity

There are many experiments on this topic, and here is one of them. The tendency to notice negativity was investigated using a modified Stroop problem. Participants were presented with a range of positive and negative personality traits in several colors;

Special Relationship: Alien Diaries
Adulthood

Special Relationship: Alien Diaries

Once, while discussing one of my stories, I read a compliment from my friend on Facebook: “Well, patience! I couldn't do that …”. I then replied that the task of the psychologist is not to point out to the client what (in the opinion of others) he does not see, but to achieve that, having recognized and accepting the reality of the situation, he takes responsibility for it.

Open Reception: Your Man Is Trying To Help Everyone
Adulthood

Open Reception: Your Man Is Trying To Help Everyone

Masha and Oleg came to the first reception together. But, waiting for the start of the consultation in the lobby, they defiantly dispersed to different corners and buried themselves in their phones. They entered the office in the same silence, sat down in armchairs, met their eyes and frowned even more.

Subpersonalities
Adulthood

Subpersonalities

After the post about inner children, some people were indignant: “Who are all these people inside me and why there are so many of them. And in general, the further, the more of them … Here, from time to time, we are talking about personal integrity, so does it come out if we isolate subpersonalities in ourselves, that we break ourselves into pieces.

Imitation
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Imitation

In fact, the "healthy person of our society" considers manipulation (demonstration of behavior pursuing hidden goals) normal. People are ready to imitate feelings, behavior, social norms, when in fact they do not feel these feelings, do not want to behave like that, do not believe in prescribed social norms, but they have to play all this in order to look normal.

Pity As A Substitute For Love
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Pity As A Substitute For Love

Often in my practice, I come across the fact that clients feel sorry for their offenders. Parents who were beaten and humiliated, loved ones and friends who betrayed their children, crossing the border of what is permitted. What gives us pity?

And Laughter And Tears And Therapy
Adulthood

And Laughter And Tears And Therapy

This article is about the therapist's feelings in therapy. On the manifestation of feelings by the therapist. And, I think, there are no definite answers to the questions raised in this article. This article is about my own answers to them. I was completing short-term therapy with a five-year-old boy who did not know how to be friends.