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“perhaps symptoms are messengers of a meaning and will vanish only when their message is comprehended. If so, our next step is obvious: if we are to conquer the symptoms, we must determine what the Bertha obsession means to you!”

Isso ocorre porque o ser humano busca reencenar as cenas traumáticas da infância na idade adulta com a esperança de curar as feridas ainda abertas. Para isso, buscamos parceiros que contêm o melhor e o pior dos nossos pais. Porque, no fundo, existe uma esperança mágica de que desta vez será diferente. É um mecanismo que tenta reparar o passado.

Their unconscious need to remain monogamous to their mother ■They…

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Segundo esta, com efeito, são os conflitos psíquicos inconscientes, os dilaceramentos internos, que nos impedem de viver bem, nos fazem adoecer e nos impossibilitam de, segundo a célebre fórmula de Freud, “fruir e agir”.

The MEM’s unconscious mind is enforcing his Disloyalty Bind. Making bad choices keeps him dependent on, and loyal to, his mother.

The therapist’s active listening is not meandering: what underpins it is an attempt to understand – for our sake – how the subterranean operations of the past are affecting the present. We arrive in therapy with questions. We have a presenting problem which hints at, but does not fully capture, the origins of our suffering. Why, for instance, do we

The creator of psychoanalysis and the man synonymous with the discovery of the unconscious saw instead a ‘natural unhappiness’ as the preferred aim. The modest goal of his revolutionary talking therapy was a removal of neurotic or ‘unnatural’ forms of unhappiness and a restoration of the patient (somewhat surprisingly to modern ears) to an ordinary