Sublime

In the 1950s, an American psychoanalytic therapist severed his Freudian roots and turned to the Stoics to form a radically new form of therapy. Rather than plumbing the depths of the content of a problem and exploring how a stumbling block might relate to, say, one’s early psychosexual development, Albert Ellis argued that we should look at whateve

Freud est le premier penseur moderne à avoir soutenu que le cerveau des émotions était le vrai pilote de la conscience. Pour lui, ce sont l’inquiétude et la honte qui poussent les gens à prendre de mauvaises décisions, à faire des excès ou à compenser ce dont ils ont l’impression de manquer. C’est lui qui a découvert que l’identité se construisait

It is said that “neurotics make themselves miserable; those with character disorders make everyone else miserable.”

Yes, Freud and Jung are both renowned. Adler was one of the original core members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, which was led by Freud. His ideas were counter to Freud’s, and he split from the group and proposed an “individual psychology” based on his own original theories.

By 1963 Maslow noted, “my feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self-actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing.” It was perhaps a bit of self-fulfilling prophesy. At a moment when both concepts were still very much embryonic, Masl

Unless the client walks in with a placard saying i remind you of your mother, I assume that what I feel is pretty much what everyone else feels. Minimally, I can use my reaction as data to help me arrive at a diagnosis—a relational diagnosis, not a psychiatric one.

The emphasis in our culture is upon doing and achieving. The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person.

‘Presumably the psyche does not trouble itself about our categories of reality; for it, everything that works is real’ (Jung 1931b: para. 111).