Francesetti: Gestalt Therapy, an Engine of Change.
Gestalt therapy is an engine of individual an social change. Francesetti lecture 2023 in Madrid exposes the current relevancy of gestalt therapy field theory in psychotherapy practice.
Culture, Society & Psychology
Ellenberger: THE PATHOGENIC SECRET AND ITS THERAPEUTICS
This 1966 article, T*he Pathogenic Secret and Its Therapeutics,* by Henri F. Ellenberger may explain why psychotherapists are bounded by strict confidentiality in their work. Ellenberger highlights...
Making Contact with Culture: A Psychotherapist's View
Kubik’s (2014) paper, *Culture Contact: cognitive and psychodynamic aspects *deals with interesting facets of the discourse of the concept of culture, that one would tend to overlook. It starts off...
Fruehauf: Wang Fengyi's Emotional Healing in Traditional Chinese Medicine
"All disease comes from the heart" writes Freuhauf (2006). With this statement, he refers to a traditional Chinese concept of illness. ### The Five Element Theory of Chinese Medicine Chinese...
Psychotherapy Case Studies of the 18th Century: Das Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde
[Karl Philipp Moritz](http://www.amazon.com/Karl-Philipp-Moritz-Fringe-Genius/dp/0802054145/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=fitnessdiy01-20&linkId=cf01a14a038e2faa57e752c91f76eb5b&linkCode=ktl)*'s (1756-1793)...
Nationalism and National Identity: Liberating and Destructive Aspects
Kelman explains to us the liberating and destructive aspects of Nationalism and National Identity. As a Holocaust survivor, he experienced the persecution of of nationalism of the National Socialists...
Conformity and Obedience: Slippery Slope to Dehumanization of the Other
The social consequences of conformity and obedience of a group to it's authority figures. Conformity and obedience to a group (be it a nation, an ethnic or religious group, a company or a family...
The Function of Religion in Mental Health Today
Religion is in the modern "westernized" world today a topic of contention, that sparked off ever since the era of the Radical Enlightenment that began in the 18th Century in Europe. The situation is...
Privacy as Personal Control
"Personal control" was identified as the psychological concept central to privacy. ### Definition of Privacy Wolfe &Laufer (1974) write: "The need and ability to exert control over self, objects,...
Pinel 1754-1826 on Treatment of Illness from "Moral Causes"
Out of the era of the post French Revolution, we learn about Philippe Pinel (1754–1826), one of the founding fathers of what would later become psychiatry and...
Unraveling the Interplay of Culture, Civilization, and Social Structure: Understanding Shame and Othering
It’s possibly the case that different individuals experience the words *culture* and *civilization* differently. I can imagine that my own multi-cultural family background, and having come from...