Adaptive Coping
Self-integrity
This article discusses the concept of Self-Integrity, and how that relates to other concepts of personality and self-awareness.
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.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Puppy-dog Syndrome and the Consequences of Avoidant Parents
This article looks into the basic family relationship, as driven by our genetic need for connection, support, nurturing and protection. We then propose a typical dysfunctional scenario, based on parents that are avoidant of that connection. It proposes that this scenario will result in children that will include a scapegoat, who may well develop C-PTSD based Stockholm Syndrome, before they are old enough to verbalise their long-term abuse. It also introduces a new term – Puppy-dog Syndrome, to describe one of the observable behaviours of children that have had this childhood.
Anxiety
SwitchStep Music Therapy
SwitchStep Music Therapy is a creative, accessible, and evidence-informed approach that helps children and adults connect with their authentic selves, build resilience, and develop self-regulation through intentional movement and rhythm.
Brainwashing
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is an essential concept that refers to the self-guided, self-disciplined thinking that aims to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. In this article we will look at the origins and influencers of the critical approach, and maps out the important foundations to this life changing system of thinking.
Cognitive Bias
Peak Growth
This article describes a state of peak growth, or learning, which can be attained as part of an individual’s self-transcendent journey.
Artificial Intelligence
The Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School refers to a group of scholars associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1923.
analytical psychology
Hawkwind – Question the meaning of your sentence!
Calvert was proposing we should understand that this might be a “Prison” planet.
Attachment Theory
Social Control: The Self-police Parade
The concept of the Self-Police Parade, as referenced by Robert Calvert, the lyricist and vocalist of the band Hawkwind, is a thought-provoking metaphor that reflects on societal control and the resultant self-regulation of the individual.
Activism
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis – A prophecy delivered?
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is a ground-breaking film that delves into several profound themes and messages he chose to comment on, in 1927. As well as being a cinematic masterpiece of it’s day, the film offered commentary on potential societal conditions, based on the evidence that he perceived was available and he felt pertinent at the time.