In social competition theory, mood plays an important role. A negative mood occurs in people who cannot win a social conflict and refuse to accept defeat. Besides the identifiable loss, the social relationship, the hierarchy, also changes. We have difficulty surrendering to the new social relationship. […]
Doctor Faustus
In the excerpt from Doctor Faustus below, musician and composer Adrian Leverkühn is in conversation with the devil. Leverkühn will attempt to complete his Apocalyptic Oratorio as a virtuoso's masterpiece, but the price he pays for his virtuosity is high. The devil, who assists him, demands that Leverkühn renounce any claim to […]
A road to Rome.
The proverb says: Just as a Roman army retreated after defeat, so a retreat is possible after every loss. Accept it. Don't accept the loss, but the retreat that follows, until, in your own entrenchment, your armor follows where you were before the loss.
Client-centered psychotherapy and change
Client-Centered Psychotherapy and Change In their book "Psychotherapy and Personality Change," Rogers et al. describe changes in clients during and after client-centered psychotherapy. Changes were measured in the convergence of the (current) self-image to the self-ideal. Research has shown that at the beginning of therapy, the difference between the self-image and the ideal is significant. […]
Radio fragment about self-harm by elderly people.
This message refers to a radio clip you can listen to. It's an audio clip about the background of self-harm in older adults. An interview reveals how hidden this can be. Putting a nail on a mosquito bite to relieve itching is a form of self-harm. Even socially successful thirty-somethings experience feelings for which […]
The Fear of Being Bad in Bed (our secret lonely selves)
Becoming Focus: Intimacy, Beliefs, Desire, Sex, Trust, Role Reversal Source: School of Life