2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Do you constantly feel insecure about yourself? Doubting every decision you make? Afraid to talk about your feelings, to ask for what you want? Is it difficult for you to make new acquaintances? Does a feeling of insecurity constantly haunt you and poison your life? Are you tired of being afraid of everything and would like to find stability and inner freedom? Then you are shown group psychoanalysis and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy
What is self-doubt?
Self-doubt is a complex emotional state of fear, anxiety, obsessive doubts, awkwardness, and feeling bad. As a rule, people who experience self-doubt describe this condition as very excruciating. Self-doubt becomes a problem when it forces a person to abandon plans and implement their own ideas, prevents new acquaintances and makes it difficult for already existing communication. Usually, people suffering from self-doubt tend to have obsessive thoughts and constant doubts.
On the other hand, self-doubt makes a person more cautious, helps to realistically assess the upcoming difficulties, to find and more carefully consider ways to overcome them.
The situation is more complicated in those cases when self-doubt is, as it were, denied, covered with ostentatious bravado, excessive courage, leading to rash actions and sad consequences. This form of behavior is a defense against painful feelings of self-doubt, feelings of weakness and vulnerability. This defensive behavior is called pathological narcissism. In this case, painful experiences of self-doubt can turn into risky impulsive actions (responses), or hide under the cover of ostentatious self-admiration, a constant need to evaluate other people, a positive or negative reaction. The most painful thing for this type of people is indifference and indifference, which can lead to symptoms such as panic attacks or phobias.
Causes of insecurity: what is behind self-doubt?
Let's take a look at how self-doubt is formed. Of course, the roots of self-doubt are formed in early childhood along with the formation of self-esteem. As a rule, the main reasons for the formation of insecurity are the lack of emotional acceptance and emotional support (approval) in childhood. This leads to a shortage of protective and supporting objects in the human psyche. And, as you know, for the mental and psychological health of an individual, a positive (protective and supportive) image of parental figures (mom and dad) is necessary. Also, an important factor in the formation of self-doubt is the rejection of the child's aggression by the parents. In this case, the psyche reads that aggressive (strong and confident) parents do not need him and, adjusting to their unconscious expectations, he becomes more passive and insecure. In psychoanalytic psychotherapy of clients suffering from insecurity, we may observe self-rejection, embarrassment, shame, shyness, and an unconscious sense of our own exclusiveness as compensation for painful experiences.
How can group psychoanalysis and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy help with self-doubt?
The main task of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, both group and individual, is to restore a positive image of parental figures. In the process of working with a psychoanalytic psychologist, both in a group and individually, the client forms a space into which he can bring all his painful experiences.
In this space, the painful experiences of childhood that unconsciously determine our models of behavior in the present rise and get the opportunity to be processed (re-lived, rethought, overestimated). Over time, this space penetrates into the client and becomes his internal space, in which there are enough resources and protective objects to resolve internal problems.
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy does not solve problems for the client, it only creates that space, those conditions in which the client can already independently solve his problems. This makes the client more mature, free, independent and self-confident.
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