Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
Delia Caivanityfair.comSaved by Keely Adler
Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
Mental health pandemic
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Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
Now it’s more prevalent than ever—people talking about they’ll only date people in therapy. Everyone’s on Headspace or other apps. Everyone’s journaling. And it’s not that these things are bad, but the emphasis is always on the individual—it’s you who has to do something about it.
Mental Health Is Not an Individual Problem
In Adlerian psychology, there are aspects that are antithetical to normal social thinking. It denies aetiology, denies trauma and adopts teleology. It treats people’s problems as interpersonal relationship problems. And the not-seeking of recognition and the separation of tasks, too, are probably antithetical to normal social thinking.
Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
Psychotherapy has become increasingly sophisticated. On one hand, there has been an increased belief in and reliance on technological solutions. This is an important facet of the current context of Gestalt therapy: In this age of technology and therapy by procedure, there is an increased need for approaches that emphasize person-to-person values. I
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