Authenticity
Self-Reflection
This article covers the science behind the practice of self-reflection. Each theoretical model that supports the practice is teased out.
Adaptive Coping
Self-integrity
This article discusses the concept of Self-Integrity, and how that relates to other concepts of personality and self-awareness.
1D Thinking
DNA-Self Theory: The Bloch Sphere and our Genetic NOT Decisions
The Bloch sphere emerged from quantum mechanics of spin-1/2 particles (two-level systems like qubits or nuclear spins) in magnetic fields, generalizing classical spin precession to quantum superpositions.
Active Imagination
Ghosts as Externalised Projections
Jung’s use of the terms “unconscious projections” and “exteriorisations” aligned with his developing theory of autonomous complexes, he said that these were psychological contents that can manifest with apparent independence from conscious control.
Active Imagination
Training the Ego
Welcome to Training the Ego. This is your simple guide to understanding and becoming the person you want to be – your true self. I’ve tried to make it simple, so that anyone can read and understand it, yet the concepts here are incredibly powerful. And if used correctly, can lead an individual to true self-transcendence, where they have complete mastery of self in all its guises.
Adaptive Coping
The Authenticity Paradox
Authenticity, I suggest, is a continuum, a spectrum of stages, that may never end, since the self is a largely unknown thing, and that exploration of self, if done with regular determination, is always going to be revealing “new stuff”.
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers – 19 Propositions
This article explores Carl Rogers’ 19 propositions of understanding of human behaviour, each proposition is examined, criticisms explored.
Abraham Maslow
Phenomenological Theory of Personality and Behaviour
Carl Rogers’ phenomenological theory of personality and behaviour forms the core of his person-centred approach, viewing the individual’s subjective “phenomenal field”, as the primary determinant of behaviour and growth.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Developmental Truth of Childhood
Almost all children suffer a sustained and often targeted string of traumatic micro, and macro-aggressions, from the moment they are born.
Anxious attachment style
Dual-Mask Model of Attachment
Our Theory of DNA-Self, includes the concept that, due to a small child’s ability to forget upsetting or uncomfortable moments, adults may well find that they actually have two masks. One will be hidden, and highly automated.