Shame exists wherever there is a “mystery”; but this is a religious concept, which in the older times of human culture had a wide extent. ... Sexual relations, for example, which as a privilege and adyton [this was traditionally the most sacred place within a Greek temple, reserved for the priests and priestesses] for adults…
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy? – Part 11: Beware of Labels
Psychoanalytic therapy and CBT are the two most important traditions within psychotherapy. But even here, because labels can be so misleading in this field, in trying to draw distinctions within it, considerable caution is required. Contemporary CBT is more nuanced than old-style behaviourist psychology, and over time it has also, in spite of itself, come…
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy? – Part 10: Psychoanalytic Therapy & CBT
What psychoanalytic therapy and all these other related therapies do need to be distinguished from however are those forms of psychotherapy and counselling that focus less on treating the person as a whole, and on the conflicts between his emotions within him, and more on his different symptoms in isolation, with the aim of treating…
Marcus Bowman PhD 