A Few Observations on Psychotherapy, After the Aphorisms of Thomas De Quincey
A psychotherapist has their own ideal of what a therapy session should be. Most likely it will not coincide with the client’s idea of it. A therapist’s tolerance rests not on arrogance but on an understanding of human weaknesses as creative adjustment...
The Basics of Gestalt Therapy for Beginners
The main difference between Gestalt therapy and other schools of psychology is that it works “here and now”, exploring the client’s processes in the present tense (even when what is being discussed happened in the past). At the same time it is...
How Gestalt Therapy Works
Gestalt therapy is a method of psychotherapy that helps you understand yourself and the world around you better. Its core idea is that our perception is shaped by experience and by our current needs. Unfinished situations from the past (so-called “gestalts”) can...
An Introduction to Tapping for Healing Trauma
Tapping, formally known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), is a revolutionary approach to healing that combines the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine with modern psychological principles. This technique — lightly tapping on specific meridian points on the body while focusing on emotional...
The Tapping Method. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Tapping, formally known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), is a revolutionary approach to healing that combines the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine with modern psychological principles. This technique — lightly tapping on specific meridian points on the body while focusing on emotional...
Games for Adults: A Kaleidoscope of Reality
In our constant attempts to understand ourselves and the world around us, we run into a multitude of questions about reality, its nature, and the way we perceive it. These reflections bring us to the understanding that the reality we take for...
A Gift from Childhood
Children give their own meaning to the events that happen to them, or that they happen to witness. And from then on, an inner map is built on that basis – a picture of how the world around each of us is...
Levels of Resolving a Psychological Problem
1. There “is no” problem, despite the fact that it keeps reminding you of itself through vague anxiety, a strange discomfort, a feeling of dissatisfaction. All of this is attributed to non-psychological factors, so the effort goes into removing the symptoms. 2....
When We Make Mistakes, We Weep Bitterly
When we can (underlined, in italics) make mistakes in the presence of another, without fearing mockery or reproach, without fearing ridicule — that is precious! People in whose presence we can meet our own vulnerability, imperfection and weak sides without feeling shame,...
The Paradoxical Theory of Change and Pizza
The paradoxical theory of change is a concept that comes from psychotherapy, but it fits beautifully any life situation where you are trying to change something… and nothing works. Picture this: You have decided to lose weight. You buy a gym membership,...