People with an internal LOC are quite willing to have personal insight to how they may be contributing to their own problems such as their rackets and the games they may play. Read more »
Car accident “suicides”
In all that I have read there is never even one mention of people using car crashes as a type of suicide attempt. Read more »
Suicide attempt by – “I will get you to kill me”
These are not primarily murders they are primarily suicide attempts. Read more »
Belief and thinking
Of course it works the other way as well. “Good” belief systems are also resilient and resistant to change. Read more »
Family system drug addict
For a family system drug user it is actually a good thing, as it is easier for the person to eventually stop using the drug. Read more »
Evidence based psychotherapy
As you can see psychodynamic therapy does quite well. Read more »
Introjection in psychotherapy
This provides an interesting insight into introjection in this instance. She hasn’t introjected what I have said but instead introjected my voice sound and quality. Then she has applied that introjected voice to her own words. Read more »
Empathy is magical thinking
Here is a definition of empathy The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another This represents magical thinking One can only ever feel their own feelings. You can […] Read more »
Mother and child relationships
Mothers and fathers can generally treat their various children in a similar ways and one could even say equally, but they are not going to feel the same about each of them. Read more »
Hypnotic induction and ulterior transactions
The importance of emotional catharsis in psychotherapy has been known since the time of Freud. Maybe there are two factors involved in this observation. Yes the expression of feelings can be psychologically beneficial for the client but also the client picks up hypnotic inductions at the same time. Read more »