Category Archives: from our Psychologists
Harnessing our emotional horses
by Claudia Cararra, Ph.D. Emotions guide our choices, shape our preferences, help us to keep away from danger and motivate us toward rewards. In fact, in every emotion is implicit a response (the word emotion derives from latin moveo = to move) that – based on our previous experiences with the given situation – prompts […]
Continue readingBig Business, Big Pharma, Big Mental Health? The proliferation of Multitherapist Muticlient Web-based Platforms
Part II. In this installment, I will review the costs of BetterHelp and some of the other legal/ethical issues that they are currently facing.
Continue readingBig Business, Big Pharma, Big Mental Health? The proliferation of Multitherapist Multiclient Web-based Platforms
Part I. This blog is a two-part series where I walk the reader through the process of signing up for and receiving services through the mental health platform, BetterHelp.com. I will give you some background about why I did this, as well elaborate about some of the pros and cons that I noticed during my experience. Other legal and ethical issues will be explored in Part II.
Continue readingIntensive Short Team Dynamic Psychotherapy Digging deep, fast By Tina Bjarnskov Cand. Psyk. Aut. ISTDP is short for Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Like all psychodynamic approaches it emphasizes unconscious psychological processes (for example, feelings and fears of which we’re not fully aware) and contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality and […]
Continue readingA couple of words about narcissism
by Veronika Leonova, MA Narcissism, narcissist, – we hear these terms everywhere, and amount of posts about narcissism on different social media platforms is constantly growing. In these posts narcissists are usually described as manipulative, cold and abusive, and the focus is placed on how to identify and avoid them or if that mission has […]
Continue readingJungian Psychotherapy– a few words
What is Jungian Psychotherapy? by Veronika Leonova, M.A. Jungian psychotherapy is based on the works of a Swiss psychiatrist, C. G. Jung. It is a form of depth psychotherapy that is distinguished by a focus on the symbolic experiences in one’s life. The issues and problems a client comes with are examined both in terms […]
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