Essays on Psychotherapy

At some point in our lives, most of us have found ourselves in situations where we feel like we are under too much pressure mentally. This kind of stress may come from literally any aspect of life, but it is mostly attributed to work. Specific...

Abstract The aim of this article is to sort out the role of mother language in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a sort of treatment which is used in some of mental disorder. It is a treatment rather than medicine. In psychotherapy, the therapist makes an interpersonal...

Psychedelics have a deep seated history in various indigenous groups across the world for the purposes of obtaining enlightenment and divination. As a result of the past ignorance and social stigmas surrounding mind altering substances our knowledge is still limited and the field of study...

Assertiveness is the ability to express emotions and needs without violating the rights of others and without being aggressive. Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive. Assertiveness can be defined as the capacity to relate to others in a sincere...

Suicide is a phenomenon that makes hearts race and faces flush with heightened emotions. It is ironic how the choice of ending life spurs sensations within our bodies that remind us what it feels like to be alive. Being someone who has contemplated suicide several...

Nazish Idrees, A clinical Psychologist, Ph.D. Scholar shared their valuable cases that are improved with the use of materializing thoughts. She commonly recommends and trains her clients for visualization, manifestation and self-hypnosis. She said, I believe in the power of subconscious mind and we can...

Instead of rigidly focusing on only one approach and its theories and techniques, many counselors choose to incorporate one or more different approaches, or just bits from different approaches, into their style. The three different aspects of human experience that different approaches consider are feelings,...

American psychoanalysts are an endangered species. For many years, Freudian theory has been providing a comprehensive framework to describe human behavior. Nowadays, however, the traditional psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapies are in dramatic decline. As per Freud, internal or psychological forces motivate behavior, and abnormality occurs...

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The anti-psychiatry movement evolved in the 1950’s, psychiatrists argued that the approach being taken was not only costly but also profoundly unscientific as well as being ineffective. This was the breakthrough for the anti-psychiatry movement in 1960’s when famous figures become highly vocal about the...

Psychotherapy, in general, is a form of treatment, in which a trained psychologist or other qualified mental health providers will form a professional relationship with a patient, in order to understand their problems and remove or alleviate troubling symptoms, thoughts, beliefs or behaviors. Professionals will...