We like to tell ourselves a tidy story about how the mind works. The world sends signals, our senses receive them, the brain processes the information and produces a rational response. Clean, sequential, logical. The mind as a sophisticated camera, faithfully registering reality.
There’s just one problem: this story is backwards. Continue reading
There is a moment in therapy that never loses its strangeness. A patient says something—a sentence, a phrase, sometimes just a word—and you can see that they themselves are surprised by it. The words arrived before the thought. The sentence finished itself. They look at you with that particular bewilderment and ask: “Where did that come from?”
Lacan would say: from the Other.
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“I look outside the window – the curve does not look flatter to me”
A few days ago, I heard a hilarious new version of Bohemian Rhapsody, after 3 weeks of lockdown we all hope to see changes, and statistically we do, not enough but some.
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In an interview, the French psychoanalyst philosopher Jacques-Alain Miller was reminded of Jacques Lacan’s frequently quoted phrase: “Love is always reciprocal”.
What does that mean? asks the interviewer… Continue reading
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Let me start with some theory first:
In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of expression of desire, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior. Continue reading
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If I were to do experimental psychology, I would try to design a personality test that defines you according to your relationship with your friends and what kind of people you tend to surround yourself with. Maybe I’ll do it someday.
For now, however, I focus on psychoanalysis and this inspires me to analyze my own choice of friendships. It’s a unique combination of individuals who often do not have much to do with each other, even so every one of them has much to do with myself. So I divided my friends into several basic types: Continue reading
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In our active everyday life, many of the services we use are very well represented on the internet. There are lots of online shops, lessons, meetings, clubs, dating, magazines, bookstores, games, etc.
Our jobs as well as our private life are often powered by the internet connection on our smart phones.
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An article written by José Alberto Raymondi Ph.D.
When I read the article written by my colleague Dr. Raymondi, I knew that you have to share it with you. The fundamental question in every addiction is what part it takes in patient’s life. You can look for the durable solution as soon as you find its answer.
When Mila first told me she was planning something “crazy” for her counseling practice over a Skype call, I was intrigued. When she told me that idea was getting together with small groups for brunch and deep, meaningful conversation, I was 100% interested.
After all, her idea combined two of my favorite things: psychology and eating at weird hours.
A friend of mine is a molecular biologist and she shared with me that usually when she meets new people and they ask her what she does for living the answer causes a long uncomfortable silence.
Fortunately or not it is not the same when I tell someone that I am a Psychoanalysis PhD, nevertheless there are a bunch of silly questions that almost always come up. That’s why I decided to respond to them in an article and maybe bust some myths about the psychoanalysis.