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RSSCountertransference in the broad sense means all your thoughts, feelings and fantasies during a psychotherapy session. It’s a useful tool for understanding your clients, especially those suffering from depression where anger and rage are an unconscious issue. Continue reading
Category Archives: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Good and Bad Reasons to Take an Antidepressant
Many people take antidepressants, not because they’re depressed, but because doing so helps them to avoid confronting important feelings or problem areas in their lives. Continue reading
The Mostly-Bad Mother
Thoughts about preserving the “good” bits of the mostly-bad mother. Continue reading
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Defense Mechanisms V: Idealization
Idealization reflects a drive to escape from an internal experience felt to be unbearable and to connect with something perfect. This defense mechanism may take aim at another person, an actual experience or one’s own self. Continue reading
Narcissistic Rage and the Sense of Entitlement
A sense of entitlement, along with the expectation that life should be much easier and less frustrating than it actually is, often lies behind the expression of narcissistic rage, a feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder and other superficially discrete categories of diagnosis. Continue reading
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