June 2012
1 post
“One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil.”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, quoted by Jung to Freud (via psychotherapy)
May 2012
5 posts
Head Sex and the Emotional Affair (Therese J.... →
psychotherapy:
Believe it or not, extramarital “head sex” — the emotional bond formed with a secret lover of sorts — may be worse (at least for depression) than real sex outside a marriage, according to Peggy Vaughan, author of The Monogamy Myth and creator of DearPeggy.com.
“Most people recover from the fact that their partner had sex with someone else before they recover from the fact that...
Cultured Homosexuality
Are homosexuals being discriminated against? My answer for that is yes! For decades, we humans have fought for our civil rights. Americans fought for various freedoms of liberty; African Americans fought to be treated as equal to Caucasians; women have fought for the right to be treated as equal to men. Today, the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) Community is fighting for the...
How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death... →
“Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that...”
– Maurice Sendak, 1964 (via psychotherapy)
Adjustment Disorder and Coping with Stress
Where do we draw the line in diagnosis with psychological disorders and mental illnesses? What treatments are reasonable to help medicate the symptoms the patient experiences? When it comes to adjustment disorder and learning how to cope with the stress that is brought on from adjusting to a change in life or any dramatic change for that matter, there are so many ways to mitigate the...
April 2012
3 posts
“The primary goal of parenting, beyond keeping our children safe and loved, is to...”
– Gordon Livingston
(via sometimesagreatnotion)
tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Intro :
Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought something is not right? How about putting on a fresh pair of undies and walking out the door realizing these undies are the wrong color and they just don’t go with today’s outfit? What about someone staring the the mirror for a prolonged amount of time and examining every inch of his or her body, thinking there is something...
