In psychoanalysis feelings are our weapons. Whereas in other fields of mental health (like in psychiatry) covering difficult and unbearable feelings is the optimum result, in psychoanalysis unravelling all those thoughts and feelings is the way to go; and the only way out of it, is through it. The handling of difficult feelings is central […]
Let’s face it, we are born and raised in materialism. And not only that, nothing seems powerful enough to stop this. My kids are not kids any more. The one is in adolescence and the other one is just about to enter. My wife and I have always tried to control the amount of material
The older I get, the wiser (I believe) I become. Along the way I’ve come to realise over and over again that humanity can be divided into two categories: To those who know how to talk the talk and to those who know how to walk the walk. The majority belong to the first group.
Most people visiting my office for an initial session seek an immediate relief of their emotional suffering. They see in the therapist the magician who would transform their pain once they see him, just like Dorothy and her friends in the Wizard of Oz expected all their problems to be resolved once they find the
The session started. The analysand, like it happens in the last months’ sessions, is in despair. The feeling of sadness fills the room. The psychoanalyst is the exclusive receiver of these feelings and he experiences them intensely. This is, anyway, one of his targets. The psychoanalyst doesn’t have as a primary target to ease the
In the Narcissus Myth recorded by Ovid (1984), Liriope was raped by the river god Cephisus where she conceived and gave birth to Narcissus. When Liriope asked the prophet Tiresias about her son’s fate, his message was clear: Narcissus will live a long life as long as he doesn’t get to know himself. Narcissus
A lot has been written regarding the relationship between mother and baby and the importance of the father’s role has been somehow neglected. The primary relationship of the baby and the mother plays a major role in the establishment of all future relationships the baby would have. However, the father’s role should not be underestimated.
We have the tendency to connect maturity with age and expect people of certain age and position to have a mature way of thinking and handling of situations. A brief look at the daily news though shows the real picture of the level of maturity people have especially those that govern the world. I was
A friend has seen the picture above of a fence on my business card and she made this comment: “Nice picture, it shows how people build their fences.” I hadn’t thought of the picture in that way before. It’s always fascinating how people see the same thing in different ways. I always thought of the
In 1932 Alfred Einstein sent a letter to Sigmund Freud asking him about the human aggression; “Is there a way to free humanity from the suffering of war?” (Freud, 1933) In response Freud wrote back a long letter where he mentions, as a conclusion, to Einstein that it’s useless trying to prevent the human aggression
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