Biography
Lars Tornstam
This article will review the life and works of Lars Tornstam and understand his impact on the world of psychology.
Core-Self Pruning
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.
Dual-Mask Model
Carl Rogers – 19 Propositions
This article explores Carl Rogers’ 19 propositions of understanding of human behaviour, each proposition is examined, criticisms explored.
Core-Self Pruning
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.
Core-Self Pruning
Integrative Genomic Schema Therapy (IGST)
Most psychotherapies begin with the assumption that you have a stable “self” that has developed maladaptive patterns. Integrative Genomic Schema Therapy (IGST) starts from a different premise: what you call “your personality” may be a survival scaffold built over a pruned authentic self.
Peak Growth
Binary Therapies – Finding the Rainbow in the Black and the white
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a recently introduced therapy which has shown very good results, but has had a number of criticisms based on our lack of understanding as to exactly how it works.
Agape Love
Unconditional Positive Regard
Unconditional positive regard serves as a key element in Carl Rogers’ person-centred therapy.
Attachment Theory
An end to war? A proposal to heal the world
In this article, I will explore the main psychological issues that contribute to the lack of peace in the world today, and suggest a possible way to overcome them.
Anorexia Nervosa
Parts working – Can our parts cause cancer?
In this article, we will look at the growing body of evidence that many of our chronic physical ailments may well be caused by psychological dysfunction.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy
This article introduces somatic therapy, explains its history, concepts, applications and strengths and weaknesses.