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My last hospitalization for depression happened after a suicide attempt. My primary nurse kept asked me what I was angry about, saying that I must have been angry about something to have tried to kill myself. She seemed rather annoyed when I assured her that no, I wasn't angry, and anger had nothing to do… Continue reading Is Depression Anger Turned Inward?
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week's term is not so much a single term as a group of terms that fall within the umbrella of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Love him or hate him, Sigmund Freud was quite remarkable in terms of his impact on the… Continue reading What is… Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week's term is dreaming. We all have dreams, whether we remember them or not, but what exactly are they? The reality is that no one really knows for sure. There are a few things we do know, though. REM sleep… Continue reading What is… Dreaming
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week's term is libido. I'm guessing everyone already knows what libido (or sex drive) is on a surface level, but I was curious to find out what lies beneath the surface, and it turns out that it's influenced by a… Continue reading What is… Libido
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week's terms are repression and suppression. This is a follow-up to a recent post on defense mechanisms, which are based on the work of Sigmund Freud. Suppression and repression are both examples of defense mechanisms, and they serve the purpose of… Continue reading What is… Repression and Suppression
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week's term is defense mechanisms. The concept of defense mechanisms was originally proposed by Sigmund Freud. They're strategies that are used unconsciously in order to protect the ego when faced with uncomfortable feelings. Freud identified a number of defense mechanisms,… Continue reading What is… a Defense Mechanism
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychological terms. This week's term is psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a type of talk therapy that does a deep dive into the past to help uncover what's going on in the unconscious mind in order to figure out problems in the person's… Continue reading What is… psychodynamic psychotherapy