This prospective longitudinal study investigated the role of the personality dimensions of dependency and self-criticism in the course of depressive symptoms in a sample of inpatient severely postpartum depressed mothers (n = 55). Depressive symptoms and personality were measured during hospitalization and on average 3 1/2 years later. In line with previous research, a considerable subgroup of ...

medical practice; rather in significant part it is engaged in special interest advocacy, pursuing and preserving social power. The concept of excellence is a component of the ideological justification of that role’ [ 3 , p. 11]. Holman identified a decline in intellectual freedom as a major source of the ‘excellence deception’, which perpetuates prevailing practices, deflects criticism and insu...

by A prison psychotherapist, this book highlights the value of studying the transference relationship, not only from a treatment point of view but also as a means of research into the unconscious motivation of the criminal. Dr. Smart emphasises the prisoner's wish for therapy and his ability to make use of it. She confines her study to patients who have a conscious anxiety about their crime. Th...

Complex trauma describes that category of severe, chronic interpersonal trauma usually originating in the formative years of a child. In the adult, this can result in global dissociative difficulties across areas of cognitive, affective, somatic, and behavioral functions. Targeting this field of traumatic pathology, this article reviews the contributions and developments within one broad approa...

Bu çalışmada Disney- Pixar ortak yapımı olan Kırmızı (Turning Red, Domee Shi, 2022) animasyonu arketipsel boyutu ile incelenmektedir. Kolektif bilinçdışı ve arketipler Analitik Psikoloji’nin kurucusu Carl Gustav Jung’un psişe bilimine kattığı en önemli kavrayışlardandır. bilinçdışı, bütün insanlığın paylaştığı imajlardan denen çağrışımlardan oluşur (Indick, 2011). Arketipler, bir anne babaya sa...