Category: Psychotherapy
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Psychological Treatment and Understanding Depression and Anxiety
An inhabitant of the variegated landscape of experience is pain. Within this landscape, physical pain has location, distribution, coloration, brightness, sharpness, intensity, duration, and slope. Physical pain has texture and flavor. Pain signals injury, damage, threat, imbalance, dysfunction. Pain informs attention and correction of the cause of pain through feedback. The mitigation of pain guides…
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Limits of Binary and Zero-sum Mindset
The binary framework has deep roots in Western culture. The binary framework applies to systems defined by restricted logics such as board games and to science and digital applications, such as Newtonian physics and programing. Binary logics rely upon axiomatic, self-referential, closed systems. Inputs to the system must accord with the system, otherwise inputs are…
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Cure for Psychological Wear and Tear
Aging and maturity involve cumulative wear and tear, some of which is traumatic. Wear and tear certainly occurs with the body through accidents. Although the body possesses a capacity for self-repair at times the repair is not successful, and the result is scar tissue, arthritic bone, and marked and sagging skin. Such wear and tear…
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The Path to Will
Will may be connected with passion, but passion is not enough since passion may be blind. Passion is significant, but must be associated with disciplined practice. Passion alone will not create the works of the artist or the products of the writer. Superior results require practice. Disciplined real-world, practice creates congruent local networks. This is…
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Why Will May Fail
A substantial neuro-physiological and neuro-psychological literature suggests that mind is so organized that at least two general systems organize thought and behavior. In my articles, the first of these systems I term the “logico-linguistic system”, and the second, the “configural system” (van den Daele, 1994). In the Western culture belt, the logico-linguistic system is identified…