Tag: psychotherapy
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Emotional Intelligence Without Emotional Safety Changes Very Little
What exactly is emotional intelligence? Broadly, it refers to our capacity to recognize, understand, and manage our own emotions, as well as the ability to perceive and respond appropriately to the emotions of others. In everyday life, this might look like noticing when you feel anxious before an important meeting, understanding why a friend is…
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Therapy Today Is Less About Fixing and More About Remembering
Many people come to therapy believing that something inside them is broken. They arrive searching for valuable tools, direct answers, or simple techniques that will finally fix everything that feels wrong. This expectation is understandable. We live in a culture that treats emotional suffering as a malfunction — something to swiftly diagnose, attempt to repair,…
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Emotional Burnout Is Often Grief for a Life Never Lived
Burnout is commonly understood as exhaustion — the result of working too hard, doing too much, or failing to rest.While fatigue can certainly be part of a burnout, this explanation barely touches its inner emotional core. Clinically and experientially, burnout often reflects something far deeper. Psychological burnout is frequently grief — grief for the parts…
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You Can Be Highly Functional and Deeply Unwell at the Same Time
One of the most persistent myths about mental health is that psychological suffering must look obvious to everyone to be recognised and taken seriously. We often imagine distress as something visible and unmistakable — a total breakdown of all major functions, an inability to cope, sudden withdrawal from daily life, or clear day-to-day dysfunction. Yet…
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Many People Are Not Depressed — They Are Disconnected
In contemporary mental health journals, emotional distress is often quickly labelled as depression.Low mood, fatigue, loss of motivation, emptiness, or disengagement from life are commonly understood through this lens. Yet for very many psychotherapy patients, this description does not fully fit their lived experience. They are not necessarily sad in the traditional sense. They may…
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Reflections on the Emotional Life of Helping Professionals
Psychotherapists are often seen as steady, composed, and almost unbreakable. What is rarely talked about is the emotional effort involved in being fully present for another person’s deep inner pain, long-term struggles, and destructive feelings. Reflecting on these experiences helps patients understand the human side of therapy, and it allows professionals to see the ethical…
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What Makes Psychotherapy Work and Why It Matters
Psychotherapy often comes with misunderstandings. Many people assume it’s only about talking, gaining insight, or solving obvious problems—but therapy is much more than that. Understanding what therapy actually feels like, how it works, and why it can be transformative helps both patients and clinicians see its true value. What Therapy Actually Feels Like (And Why…
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How Early Experiences Shape Who We Are Today
Many of the difficulties we face as adults don’t just come from the stress of daily life. They often have their roots in early experiences with the people who cared for us, how our emotional needs were met, and the ways we learned to cope as children. Once we reach an understanding of these themes,…
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Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Today: Understanding the Modern Inner World
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis exist today in a very different world than they did even ten years ago. While the foundational ideas of early psychoanalytic thinkers—such as Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion—continue to shape how we understand the mind, the conditions under which people live, struggle, and seek therapy have changed dramatically. Modern life moves faster,…
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A Brief History of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Modern psychotherapy has its roots in the late nineteenth century, emerging at the intersection of medicine, philosophy, and early psychological science. Over the past 130–140 years, it has developed into a diverse and complex field, encompassing multiple schools of thought and clinical approaches. Despite this diversity, many contemporary forms of psychotherapy continue to draw, directly…
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