Psychotherapy and Counseling

Talasemia merupakan salah satu penyakit kronis sehingga membutuhkan perawatan khusus. Talasemia merupakan penyakit genetik sehingga hal ini menyerang balita dan anak-anak. Talasemia merupakan Penyakit kelainan darah yang menyebabkan sel darah (hemoglobin) merah cepat hancur sehingga usia sel-sel darah menjadi lebih pendek dan tubuh kekurangan darah. Ada tiga pengobatan yang paling sering digunakan oleh dokter. Ketiganya itu antara lain transfusi darah, terapi iron chelation, dan supleman asam folat. Selama menjalani masa perawatannya, penderita talasemia seringkali didampingi oleh orangtua dan yang paling sering adalah ibu. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti tertarik untuk meneliti tentang pemaknaan Ibu terhadap penyakit talasemia, dan Bagaimana sikap ibu terhadap penyakit talasemia yang diderita oleh anaknya berdasarkan komunikasi intrapersonal. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa talasemia merupakan cobaan/ujian dari Allah. Penyikapan terhadap anaknya yang menderita talasemia didasarkan secara positif dan negatif.

This book brings together theoretical texts on the use of qualitative methods in psychology, alongside both original and review studies that employ qualitative research approaches across various subfields of the discipline. The studies included in this book offer a comprehensive framework for understanding qualitative research methods. In this way, we hope that the book will serve as a valuable reference for academics, researchers, and students in psychology and related disciplines.

There is a profound difference between the use of the Archetypal Dimension of Being for Objective Deterministic Prediction and the Use of the Profound Archetypal Dimension of Being  for Experiential Self Liberation Within The Ontological Archetypal Context Of Being and Beingfullnes.

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SCENES ARE SUGGESTED TO THE PATIENT AS BASES FOR DAYDREAMING. THE 5 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DIRECTED DAYDREAM THERAPY ARE SYMBOL CONFRONTATION, FEEDING, RECONCILIATION, MAGIC FLUIDS, AND EXHAUSTING AND KILLING. ILLUSTRATIVE CASE EXCERPTS ARE GIVEN. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)

Transcendental Consciousness is different from Our Primordial Consciousness or Primordial Awareness. This is both a serious and pragmatic historical question in need of understanding. What is the profound difference betweeb  Transcendental Consciousness and Primordial Awareness

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce
between virtue and vice.”—Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“The road from appearance to reality is often very hard and long,
and many people make only very poor travelers. We must forgive
them when they stagger against us as if against a brick wall.”—
Franz Kafka, in Gustav Janouch’s Conversations With Kafka

What do psychotherapy and metaphysics have to do with one another, and is there a common ground between them? The answer to this inquiry lies in the distinction between sacred psychology, in its premodern form, and secular psychology. The traditional "sciences of the soul," found within the diverse cultures of the world, are complete and inseparable from their more integrated modes of knowing and healing. This integration is not found in modern Western psychology, which has severed itself from the transpersonal order and is a product of the long historical trajectory that culminated in the Enlightenment project. This outlook spawned a desacralized psychology that is not only fragmented but inverted as it by and large rejects transcendence. Accordingly, the modern manifestation of this discipline cannot be considered a genuine psychology as such. In order to restore wholeness to mental healthcare, psychology needs to be situated, once again, in the spiritual dimension found within humanity's wisdom traditions. In other words, to recover an understanding of the full breadth and depth of our human condition requires nothing short of a reawakening to a metaphysical vision of the spiritual life.

Parental alienation is a complex and emotionally charged phenomenon that can severely disrupt the parent-child bond, often arising in the context of high-conflict separations or custody disputes. This article explores the psychological impact of alienation on both children and parents, emphasizing the long-term consequences for attachment, identity, and emotional development. Drawing on trauma-informed principles and attachment theory, the article outlines therapeutic approaches to family reunification, including narrative repair and structured communication. It also addresses the ethical and clinical challenges therapists face when working with alienated families, such as resistance, triangulation, and legal involvement. Through a case example, the article highlights the potential for healing and reconnection, offering guidance for clinicians seeking to support families on the path toward restored relationships and emotional safety.

This research paper provides a comprehensive exploration of counseling psychology, focusing on its foundational theories, practical applications, and essential skills required for effective practice. Drawing from a systematic literature review, the paper examines major theoretical frameworks such as psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic approaches, alongside contemporary integrative models. It discusses evidence-based practices in diverse settings, ethical considerations, and multicultural adaptations. Key skills like active listening, empathy, and crisis intervention are highlighted, emphasizing their role in bridging theory and practice. The findings underscore the importance of integrative approaches for addressing modern mental health challenges. Recommendations for future research include enhanced training in telehealth and cultural competency.

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, einen Designansatz zu entwickeln, der mit räumlichen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und ausgewählten Designparametern Stress und Erregungszustände in Krankenhäusern resp. in Patientenzimmern reduziert. Damit verbunden ist die Notwendigkeit die VertreterInnen der relevanten Gestaltungsdisziplinen für die enormen Auswirkungen zu sensibilisieren, die ihre planerische und gestalterische Arbeit auf den menschlichen Körper und die Psyche haben. Der Zusammenhang und die Wechselwirkungen von Design, Gesundheit und Krankheit werden über verschiedene medizinische und psychologische Modelle, die weitgehend auf systemtheoretischen Ansätzen basieren, dargestellt. Auf dieser systemtheoretischen Grundlage wird der transdisziplinäre Zugang des Erweiterten Interface, das den Zugang vom Design zum menschlichen Organismus in einem 1. Schritt beschreibt, entwickelt. Der menschliche Körper und die Psyche sollen für die gestalterischen Disziplinen jedoch in einem 2. Sch...

Adjustment .and achievement: A Comparison of Two Methods of Counselling by Keith C. Dicks This thesis was designed to set up a short-term counselling programme in an institutional setting and to evaluate the results of that programme. It was hoped that the evaluation of counselling programme in this kind of setting might have lead to the establishment of a permanent counselling programm: designed to meet the needs of the population involved. This research was also designed to assess the results of counselling by using multiple measurement criteria which might have been able to measure more variables of change an-} thus yield more accurate indications of change through counselling. On the basis of the review of the literature, it "las proposed that those persons who were more adjusted, also held a higher achievement level than those who were not as well adjusted. It was also noted that counselling could produce both positive and negative changes and therefore the study was designed to take this into account. Two groups were counselled with differing methods of counselling, while one group acted as a control. The groups were pre and post tested with the Bell Adjustment Inventory, the Mooney Problem Check List, their grade point averages, and a rating scale administered to the teachers involved. The data were collated an1 evaluated. Generally the results yieldei no significant differences between any of the groups at the end of the counselling programme. Recommendations and suggestions for further research were made.

When read through parasitology, neuronal thermotransparency, and corpse apoptosis, the text opens into a hallucinatory register where literature itself becomes an alien interpreter. Parasites act not simply as pathological intruders but as archetypal glyphs that destabilize the symbolic economy. In this reading, psychogametogenesis theory is less a biological hypothesis than a semiotic descent into a “heteropoetic foreground” where host and parasite fuse into new ontological architectures. Parasites emerge in Jung’s visionary cosmology as emissaries of alterity. They thread themselves into the psychic soma, not unlike the infiltration of protozoan oocysts into neural tissue. Neuronal thermotransparency—the concept that the nervous system is porous to invisible, heat-transmitting inscriptions—maps onto Jung’s description of psychic images that bypass rational mediation and enter directly into the vascular imagination. The parasite thus serves as both contaminant and carrier: a figure of the “false labor” of literature, where text is born but its mother is absent, unencapsulated, double-coded. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, becomes symbolic in The Red Book: the corpse that dies within the living tissue of the psyche. Jung’s images of decay, rot, and resurrection parallel the biological dissolution of infected cells. Yet the process is also economic. Just as apoptosis ensures the health of the organism through sacrifice, Jung presents death as a necessity for psychic renewal. The “economic tyranny” of multinucleated gestures—cells and archetypes alike—marks the price of individuation. Literature in this sense is a necrotic economy, where each clause is a lesion, each scar an investment of energy into a higher symbolic infrastructure. The “eye text” that transitions into contingency is an unknown glyph: the moment where perception is reconfigured as interpretation. For Jung, the eye is not passive but productive; it inscribes meaning on the field of vision. In parasitic literature, this inscription is unstable, always threatened by mutation. Varela’s concept of autopoiesis resonates here—the self is propositionally constructed yet never immune from invasion. The glyph is contingent, mutable, and larval: an unsteady identity that, like Novalis’ fragments, resists closure. Psychogametogenesis—the formation of alien gametes of meaning—unfolds in Jung’s pages as a descent rather than a sublimation. Unlike passive poetry, psychogametes actively intervene in the host’s symbolic economy. They are azithromycin-like in their sexual materiality, interrupting the smoothness of semiotics by creating resistant strains of signification. This aligns with the notion of an “alien interpreter”: a voice within the psyche that decodes not according to human logic but according to an extraterrestrial recursion, where the oocyst of language is always already infected by a foreign glycoprotein. Strategic Schelling crystals—figures of necessity and contingency in metaphysical architectures—function here as triggers of retention. Parasites shed their skins like socket lice, leaving scales that are at once debris and archive. These exfoliated remnants assemble into an infrastructural alphabet: a grammar that does not signify but infects. Jung’s archetypes are less timeless images than persistent noise edits, immune histones resisting the replication of foreign codes. The result is a doll-like figure, recursively replicating citations, pornography, and host cells alike. Jung consistently eroticizes death, decay, and parasitic intrusion. The necrophilic parasite is not merely destructive but productive of symbolic form. Eroticization functions as a semiotic vector: the branching of trypanosomiasis becomes a branching of stories, xenoglossic and speculative. The host body becomes literature—its tissue illusory, its scars communicative. Contagion, in this sense, is not only biological but textual. Every lesion, every fever, every misfolded protein is a trope. The existential host that suffers under parasitic invasion embodies Jung’s archetype of the wounded healer. It is through necrotic inscriptions that meaning is generated. The scars of infection are not silenced but dispersed, forming a topology of survival. In this reading, The Red Book is a proto-biological codex: an account of psychogametogenesis where literature is a parasite, economy is apoptosis, and the host is always an alien other to itself. The anti-anamnesic hypothesis—the refusal to remember except through wound—marks the text’s ultimate paradox: it speaks by erasing, it heals by infecting, it lives by dying.

In a profound way only in the formulated experience of Transcendental knowing does Transcendental Reality Exist. This Transcendental View is a function of a human being entering into a dissociative  Transcendental State that invalidates ordinary experience of the Being of the World, invalidates the Being of our natural experience of Phenomena and even invalidates  the natural being of our mind and can even invalidate the multidimensionality of Being itself

están vinculadas al grupo de investigación Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Este trabajo ha sido financiado en parte por el proyecto: "BIEN-E-STAR: Nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación: integración y consolidación de su uso en ciencias sociales para mejorar la salud, la calidad de vida y el bienestar", financiado por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, PROYECTOS CONSOLIDER-C (Código: SEJ2006-14301/PSIC).

This thesis develops an existential-phenomenological understanding of resistance in psychotherapy. It is argued that the concept of resistance is both one of the most problematic, as well as one of the most enduring, concepts within psychotherapy. An in-depth, critical literature review is presented on the various meanings and significances given to resistance across different theoretical perspectives. It is shown that while resistance as a concept belongs centrally within the psychoanalytic perspective, nevertheless, substantial interest and debate about resistance is present within other perspectives. From an existential-phenomenological perspective, the concept of resistance, where this is understood to refer to an unconscious intrapsychic force, is impermissible. However, it is argued that when the concept of resistance is distinguished from the intersubjective phenomenon of resistance, an existential-phenomenological perspective is both possible and desirable. Within the proces...

The school counselling programme is promoted in the curriculum to provide assistance to all members of the school population before and in times of needs. Adolescents are a large part of this population that requires life skills to overcome the developmental tasks associated with challenges of adolescence. These include trainings in self esteem, values, negotiation, goal setting, decision making, communication, assertiveness and finding help.. The paper is premised on G. Stanley Hall's theory of stress and storm in adolescence. The paper sought response to a null hypothesis.: Hol, There will be no significant difference in the opinion of counsellors in senior secondary schools and those in tertiary schools that, school counselling can improve adolescents' acquisition of life skills. The study used; School counselling Effects Inquest Questionnaire (SCEIQ) questionnaire to collect data. Two hundred and fifty counsellors responded.. Data generated were analyzed using t-test. Results showed that, there was significant difference in the opinion of counsellors in senior secondary schools and those in tertiary institutions on the effects of school counselling on adolescents' acquisition of life skills, thus, the null hypothesis was rejected. Even though there were differences in the opinion of counsellors on the effect of school counselling on adolescents' acquisition of life skills, result confirmed that school counselling has impact on adolescents' adjustment to the challenges faced in this period of life.

Keywords: Adolescents, developmental task, life skills, professional counsellors. school counselling

What is mental health? Is it definition? It is what the definition points towards or indicates? Is it what the definition reflects? Is it a name a set of behaviors? What kind of behaviors? Social? Physical? Psychical? Interpersonal? Individual?

Is faith alone sufficient for salvation? Are deeds alone sufficient? Are dogmas necessary elements of faith or mere philosophical and moral issues that are not inherent to salvation? How can salvation be acquired? Would there be a specific recipe for those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?
This present article presents the views of the Orthodox Church – the Church of the Fathers - on salvation: a synergy that takes place and grows between the communicable energies of God and the free will of the believer who accepts them, receives them, and lives by them. It describes the journey of growing up in faith and in deed through constant spiritual struggle until vanquishing over sin and evil. Indeed, salvation is but a function of such synergy that educates the believer and cures them from spiritual and psychological (occasionally even physical) illnesses. The faithful Christian transcends from the fallen and weakened state of the body and soul into a lively participation in the Church sacraments that culminate in the Divine Liturgy. Hence, salvation becomes a closed cycle of what God gives to humans and what humans receive and give back to God.

Se realizó un estudio analítico experimental durante el 2009, que incluyó a estudiantes de segundo año de licenciatura en enfermería de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma, seleccionados mediante el método aleatorio simple, para lo cual se creó un modelo de hipnosis muy profunda, grupal y simultánea, a fin de controlar los fenómenos hipnóticos por etapas y estudiar la memoria. Se utilizaron el test de las 10 palabras como indicador y la prueba de los signos para la validación estadística de los hallazgos. Los resultados de la memorización y su evocación en hipnosis muy profunda durante la vigilia habitual fueron mejores que los de la memorización en vigilia recordada y viceversa. La aplicación del paradigma fisiológico para el diagnóstico del estado de conciencia fue útil para definir la etapa muy profunda, durante la cual no hubo sincronización del ritmo alfa por apertura de los ojos en ese estado de conciencia. Los ritmos alfa y beta devinieron típicos del estado hipnótico. Palabras clave: hipnosis, memoria, marcadores de estado de conciencia, fenómenos hipnóticos, electroencefalograma, función vegetativa, función cognitiva.

In seinem einzigartigen und subjektiven Kranksein befindet sich der Patient in einer existenziellen Grenzsituation. Er gibt seinem Krankheitszustand einen Sinn und deutet dieses Erlebnis mit seinen Wertüberzeugungen und -haltun- gen. Diese Sinngebung findet keineswegs in einem kulturell sterilen Raum statt. Religiöse Glaubensüberzeugungen, traditionelle Sinndeutungen und ge- sellschaftlich geprägte moralische Anschauung und Haltung gestalten diesen Sinngebungsprozess und beeinflussen zugleich Handlungen und Haltungen des Patienten.

This study looked into the availability of e-counselling services for students in secondary schools in Niger State during COVID-19. The specific goal was to assess whether ICT facilities were available in guidance and counselling services for students in secondary schools in Niger state, as well as whether trained e-counsellors were available in such schools. A total of 480 people were used as part of the sample. Simple random and purposive selection procedures were used to select the sample. The study relied on an instrument called the E-counseling Facilities' Availability for Guidance and Counselling Services in Schools Questionnaire (EFAGCSSQ). To answer the study questions, the acquired data was analyzed using frequencies and percentages, while t-test statistics were employed to test the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level of significance. The findings found that senior secondary schools lacked suitable e-counselling facilities and that trained e-counselors were scarcely accessible. According to the report, the government should provide e-counselling facilities and either hire professional e-counselors or teach existing counselors in e-counselling.

Despite growing recognition of music the therapeutic value of music, its integration into nursing practice remains underutilized and insufficiently theorized. This study addresses a critical gap in healthcare research by exploring how music-based interventions can enhance patient outcomes across diverse clinical and cultural contexts. Positioned within musicology's expanding engagement with health sciences, the research is timely given the global shift toward holistic, non-pharmacological care strategies. The study aims to critically examine the therapeutic applications of music in nursing, identify evidence-based frameworks for implementation, and propose strategic guidelines for embedding music into nursing education and clinical protocols. Drawing on the Biopsychosocial Model, Humanistic Nursing Theory, Music, Mood, and Movement (MMM) Theory, and the Holistic Model of Music Therapy, the research situates music within established paradigms of holistic care. Using a non-clinical, mixed-methods approach, the study analyzes secondary and archival data from 180 patients across five hospitals and eight nursing homes in Maryland, USA. Qualitative and quantitative techniques were employed to assess music's influence on physiological responses such as heart rate, pain perception, psychological states (e.g., anxiety, depression), and emotional well-being. Findings reveal that music interventions consistently improved patient comfort, reduced anxiety, and fostered stronger nurse-patient rapport. The study advocates for music therapy as a cost-effective, culturally adaptable complement to pharmacological treatments, especially in resource-constrained settings. It recommends integrating music into nursing curricula and clinical protocols and calls for further interdisciplinary research to refine music-health strategies and inform policy development.

In every generation, there have been watchers — those who observe, track, and scrutinize without openly engaging. In ancient times, these might have been literal onlookers or covert adversaries. Today, the rise of digital platforms has made it easier than ever for people to "watch" others silently, without liking, commenting, or supporting. What may seem like innocent curiosity can sometimes mask deeper issues: jealousy, fear, resentment, and even demonic harassment. In prophetic and spiritual warfare language, this silent observation is often linked to what are called “monitoring spirits.” These are unseen agents of opposition whose assignment is believed to be to surveil, frustrate, and hinder the children of God. To the believer, the feeling of being observed but not supported is more than just a social phenomenon—it reflects a spiritual reality. This paper explores the concept of monitoring spirits from an academic-theological perspective, examining what they are thought to be, how they manifest in modern life, their overlap with psychological phenomena, biblical examples of such surveillance, and how believers are counseled to respond. The goal is to shed light on the seen and unseen eyes that follow, and to encourage a response of wisdom, faith, and fearlessness in the face of silent opposition.

Después de explorar las fronteras de las Experiencias Cercanas a la Muerte (ECM) y el espiritismo en el Tomo I, y de abordar la intersección entre la tecnología y la espiritualidad en el Tomo II, llegamos al umbral de una nueva dimensión: la neurología de lo trascendente En este tercer tomo de la trilogía 'Fronteras de la reanimación', nos adentramos en el fascinante mundo de la neurociencia y la conciencia, buscando en-tender cómo nuestro cerebro procesa y experimenta la trascendencia. A través de los capítulos que siguen, exploraremos las bases neurológicas de la experiencia trascendente, desde la neurobiología de la espiritualidad hasta la relación entre la conciencia y el cosmos. Con un enfoque interdisciplinario y una visión integral, buscamos ampliar nuestra comprensión de la condición humana y su lugar en el universo. Este tomo III es el resultado de una larga investigación y reflexión, y esperamos que sea una contribución valiosa para todos aquellos que buscan entender mejor la complejidad y la riqueza de la experiencia humana . ¿Qué nos depara el fu-turo en la exploración de la neurología de lo trascendente? ¿Cómo podemos integrar nuestros conocimientos sobre el cerebro y la conciencia para entender mejor nuestra existencia? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que abordaremos en las páginas que siguen.

Ustadh muhtasib (counselors) in the pesantren have a desire to practice counseling services that are based on their traditions but have difficulties in formulating them. The campus also has a desire to look for local wisdom-based counseling design models. Finally they reached a meeting point in community service with the service-learning method. The aim of this program is to excavate and formulate a pesantren-based local tradition-based counseling design model with the Ustadz Muhtasib community. Results: boarding-based counseling emphasizes balance (at-tawazun) starting from the philosophical side to praxis. Among other things, in view of humans as beings who have balance (at-tawazun) between leaders in the way of God (as embodiments of ‘abd Allah) and leaders in fighting for civilization and prosperity with the community (as embodiments of the Caliph of Allah). The purpose of counseling contains a balance (at-tawazun) between inviting goodness and preventing evil and the balance of...

The impact of therapist self-disclosure on clients who are themselves therapists: The practice of therapist self-disclosure (TSD) has been of interest to the counselling community for over 100 years. The available literature on the topic is vast. A review of the research literature indicated a need for further research employing three factors: i) the use of a concise definition of TSD; ii) research that includes the client's perspective; and iii) a methodology that used a qualitative approach, with the underlying assumption that the lived experience of hearing TSD may be more nuanced and complex than has previously been outlined in academic literature. For this study, the definition of TSD was outlined as a statement made by the therapist that reveals something about their life outside of the therapy room. Using semi-structured interviews with eight participants who had experienced TSD, and who were also therapists themselves. The transcripts were analysed twice using a novel approach that employed a combination of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and discourse analysis (DA). While in IPA the emphasis is on understanding and gaining a sense of how participants describe their internal life world, by contrast in DA, the analytic emphasis is on the discursive resources used to create or construct those descriptions, and how these are mobilised by participants in terms of subject position and associated rights, duties and responsibilities of these positions. The findings were then synthesised at the post-analytical stage. Six superordinate themes emerged: i) the therapeutic relationship prior to the disclosure; ii) the disclosure content; iii) the disclosure process; iv) the short-term impact; v) the longterm impact, and vi) meaning making. Within these superordinate categories, 17 subordinate themes were identified. The DA analysis explored how, after their experiences as clients, the participants construct their own use of self-disclosure as therapists. The findings illustrated a variety of rhetorical devices that were needed to carefully manage the ethical ii dilemmas that can potentially accompany a therapist's decision to disclose (or not) to their clients. These findings support extant research, but also provide fresh interpretations and many opportunities for future research.

Multitasking is becoming ever more prevalent in learning contexts, so it is essential to know about its cognitive influence. While there is evidence that multitasking degrades executive function, others propose that its influence is context dependent. The current study investigated the association between internet multitasking and problem-solving capacity among 361 Sikkim college and university students (189 males, 172 females), with gender differences. Internet multitasking was measured with the 5-item Internet Multitasking Scale (Reinecke et al., 2016), which had high reliability (α = .84), and problem-solving was quantified with the 35-item Problem-Solving Inventory (Heppner & Peterson, 1982), which also had high reliability (α = .90). On this problem-solving scale, higher scores represent lower functional ability. Scores indicated that men did ever so marginally better at multitasking (M = 26.7) and problem-solving (M = 117) compared to women (M = 23.4 and 113, respectively). There was a large positive correlation (Spearman's ρ = 0.672, p < .001) indicating that there was more multitasking related to poorer functional problem-solving ability. There were gender differences on internet multitasking (p = 0.046), but not for problem-solving (p = 0.250). Regression analysis confirmed that internet multitasking significantly predicted problem-solving scores (β = 0.505, p < .001) with 25.5% of variance accounted for (R² = 0.255). Excessive multitasking may disable effective problem-solving. Future studies should investigate the relationship longitudinally, and educational institutions should promote reflective technology use to enable the cognitive potential of students.

Zasadniczo w terapii rodzin chodzi o miłość łączącą ludzi. I to wszystko. Nie chodzi w niej o władzę, hierarchię i paradoksalne odkrycia. Rodzina jest rodziną, bo ludzie, którzy ją założyli, kochają się, dbają o siebie lub przeżywali to wszystko w przeszłości. I kiedy zgłaszają się na terapię, robią to po to, aby odnowić swoją miłość lub ukształtować nowe wzajemne relacje. Jestem przekonana, że objawy wiążą się w określony sposób z nieumiejętnością okazywania miłości.

This paper explores the convergence between Kabbalistic tradition and Jungian analytical psychology, two systems that, despite their distinct historical and cultural origins, share a profound vision of human transformation. Both emphasize the integration of conscious and unconscious dimensions, the reconciliation of opposites, and the activation of symbolic language as pathways to individuation and spiritual realization. Through the use of archetypes, the Tree of Life, Hebrew letters, and Jung’s transcendent function, this work examines how these traditions provide complementary maps of the psyche and soul. The study also highlights practical applications in individual coaching and organizational contexts, while offering personal reflections from years of practice and study in both disciplines.

Resumen: Este trabajo de investigación formativa sobre el maltrato infantil y sus posibles repercusiones en los procesos interactivos de socialización y aprendizaje de los niños de los Hogares comunitarios del Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar del Municipio de Caucasia (Antioquia), se ...

La differenza sessuale e l'identità maschile e femminile, lungamente accolte nel corso della storia come un dato essenziale e imprescindibile della natura umana, derivante peraltro dalla creazione divina, sono oggi poste in discussione dalla più recente cultura sessuale, in specie dalla cosiddetta «ideologia gender» 1 che, contestando la naturalità della differenza tra maschio e femmina, rivendica il diritto, anche sul piano giuridico, di definire altrimenti il genere sessuale di appartenenza. L'odierna tendenza a dissolvere la differenza sessuale maschile e femminile, ritenendo indifferente ed equivalente qualsivoglia vissuto, sia esso, per esempio, eterosessuale, omosessuale, bisessuale, transessuale, sollecita una riflessione più critica e fondamentale circa l'essere sessuato e l'agire sessuale della persona umana. A tale scopo, nel presente contributo si delinea un'antropologia sessuale che mette a frutto l'incontro integrale tra uomo e donna, il quale «non è l'incontro di due coscienze neutre e disincarnate, né quello di due temperamenti, né quello di due corpi, né quello di due spiriti, ma quello dell'uomo e della donna: è cioè un incontro umano che avviene in una sto-

Interiority listens to an outside through itself, as itself, revealing a non-contextual, non-dual substrate in which there isn’t a separate self that listens, but only listening.
What does interiority hear when it listens?
As it opens wide the aperture of its attentions it begins to include the entirety of the screen of awareness, upon which the contents of a lifeworld appear to be projected, or illuminated. When held open at its widest, awareness is immediately known as the totality of objective experience, both real and unreal.
As an active rethinking of music-theoretical design space, this essay was written and edited in deep listening, a meditation involving listening to listening, an attunement outside of thought enveloped by an unconditioned cognizance that nevertheless remains synchronous with its displays.

Background: Aripiprazole is a novel antipsychotic medication that has been tried in the treatment of several psychiatric disorders. In an open clinical study, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of aripiprazole in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder resistant to normal regimen of treatment. Method: A total of nine hundred and sixty one patients were admitted over three year period of time (January 2012December 2014) to the psychiatric department of Al Ain hospital, United Arab Emirates. All patients whose been fulfilled DSM-IV diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (36 patients) screened for further assessment. Patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (22 patients) and one patient with eating disorder were excluded. Thirteen patients were contacted to be involved in the study. Participants were unstable although they were adherent to their medications (SSRIs) when seen in the outpatient clinic two weeks after their discharge. One patient refused to participate i...

When Dr. Eric Berne's book Games People Play was published in 1964, the world of psychotherapy gained a new tool for understanding human communication and relationships. Transactional Analysis (TA) soon became one of the most recognizable schools of psychotherapy, as it explained complex psychological processes with simple and understandable terminology. People recognized themselves, their partners, colleagues, and society in Berne's descriptions of "games."

But despite the great success of his theory, there is an unspoken void. In the last years of his life, Berne indicated the need for a concept that he titled Life without Games, but he did not manage to complete this chapter. His analysis revealed how games are created and why people play them, but it did not elaborate on a methodology for how to actually transcend them and live freely.

This is where the space opens up for new approaches, such as Sirius Personal Transformation (SPT). This method, which I have developed over twenty years of working with people, goes beyond mere game analysis and enables actual personality transformation. The aim of this article is to show how SPT builds on TA, why it answers an unfinished chapter in Berne's theory, and what solutions are possible today.

Développer la compassion et l'empathie est essentiel pour guérir les blessures d'attachement car ces qualités favorisent une reconnexion saine avec soi-même et avec les autres. L'empathie, c'est la capacité de se mettre à la place d'une autre personne et de comprendre ses émotions. La compassion, c'est l'empathie à laquelle s'ajoute le désir d'alléger la souffrance de l'autre et d'agir en conséquence. Quand on a des blessures d'attachement, on a souvent des difficultés à se faire confiance, à faire confiance aux autres, et à gérer ses émotions.

Le rôle de l'empathie et de la compassion
Réapprendre à se connecter: Les blessures d'attachement (évitant, anxieux ou désorganisé) créent des barrières à l'intimité et à la connexion. En développant la compassion et l'empathie, on peut commencer à comprendre les besoins émotionnels des autres, mais aussi les siens.

Renforcer l'estime de soi: En se traitant avec bienveillance et compassion, on peut réparer les dommages causés par une enfance où les besoins n'ont pas été comblés. L'auto-compassion est le fondement de cette guérison. En reconnaissant que sa propre souffrance est valide et mérite d'être prise en compte, on renforce son sentiment de valeur personnelle.

Améliorer les relations: Les qualités compassionnelles et empathiques permettent de créer et d'entretenir des relations saines et équilibrées. On apprend à mieux communiquer, à exprimer ses propres besoins et à entendre ceux des autres sans se sentir menacé. Cela aide à construire des liens basés sur la confiance, le respect et le soutien mutuel, contrairement aux schémas relationnels souvent mis en place avec des blessures d'attachement.

Réguler les émotions: Les personnes avec des blessures d'attachement ont souvent du mal à réguler leurs émotions, oscillant entre l'évitement émotionnel et la surcharge. En développant l'empathie et la compassion (pour soi et pour les autres), on apprend à accueillir les émotions sans les juger. On devient moins réactif et plus capable de trouver un sentiment de sécurité intérieure, essentiel pour une gestion émotionnelle saine.

L'auto-compassion est la capacité de se traiter avec la même gentillesse, le même soin et la même compréhension qu'on accorderait à un bon ami qui souffre. Ce n'est pas de l'apitoiement, de l'égoïsme ou de l'auto-indulgence, mais une manière saine et constructive de faire face à ses propres difficultés.

Selon la chercheuse Kristin Neff, l'auto-compassion repose sur trois éléments clés : la bienveillance envers soi (se réconforter au lieu de s'auto-critiquer), le sentiment d'humanité commune (reconnaître que la souffrance et l'échec font partie de l'expérience humaine partagée) et la pleine conscience (observer ses pensées et émotions douloureuses sans s'y noyer).

L'importance dans le traitement des traumas et des blessures d'attachement
L'auto-compassion est un outil puissant pour la guérison des traumas et des blessures d'attachement, car elle aide à inverser les schémas de pensée et de comportement négatifs souvent ancrés dans ces expériences.

Réduction de l'auto-critique : Les personnes ayant subi un trauma ou des blessures d'attachement développent souvent une auto-critique sévère, se jugeant responsables de ce qui leur est arrivé. L'auto-compassion aide à rompre ce cycle en remplaçant la critique par une voix intérieure plus douce et plus compréhensive. Cela permet de se libérer de la honte et de la culpabilité.

Régulation émotionnelle : Les traumas et les blessures d'attachement peuvent perturber la capacité à gérer les émotions. L'auto-compassion, par sa composante de pleine conscience, permet d'observer les émotions intenses sans réagir de manière impulsive ou les refouler. On apprend à se réconforter pendant la tempête émotionnelle, favorisant ainsi un sentiment de sécurité intérieure.

Développement de l'attachement sûr : Les blessures d'attachement, souvent issues de relations primaires insécurisantes, créent une peur de la connexion et une méfiance envers autrui. L'auto-compassion agit comme un premier pas vers le développement d'un attachement sécurisant avec soi-même. En se traitant avec bienveillance, on s'offre le soutien et le réconfort qui ont pu manquer dans l'enfance, ce qui permet de se sentir plus digne d'amour et de soin, et de construire des relations saines avec les autres.

Augmentation de la résilience : Plutôt que de voir les difficultés comme une preuve d'échec personnel, l'auto-compassion permet de les considérer comme des moments difficiles partagés par tous les êtres humains. Cette perspective renforce la résilience et aide à surmonter les obstacles sans s'effondrer sous le poids de la douleur et de la honte.

Given the historical and sociocultural origin of (Western) psychotherapy, attempts have been made to adapt its theoretical models according to the worldviews of culturally diverse clients. One important aspect of worldviews is the cultural construct of the self. Since the ontology of the self varies across cultures and every model of psychotherapy is embedded in specific views of the self, this poses a challenge to the cross-cultural adaptation of psychotherapy including postmodern therapies. This chapter proposes that the notion of “relational self” in postmodern therapies is ontologically different from the meaning of “relational self” in non-Western worldviews. One novel way to discuss their differences is to use dang-ki healing, a form of Chinese shamanism/spirit mediumship practiced in Singapore, as an example for comparison. The relational self structured in dang-ki healing is less differentiated, more hierarchical, and interconnected with both humans and nonhumans. Postmodern therapies can be therefore construed as “modernist” derived from Euro-American worldviews. Overall, this chapter aims to explore how well the processes of postmodern therapies fit with the ontology of the self in some Chinese communities based on the therapeutic experiences of people seeking help from dang-ki healing. Recommendations will be made to align postmodern therapies with the sense of self constructed in Chinese culture.

The Factorial Structure of the State-Trait Anxiety Scale (STAI-Y)

The current research aimed to investigate the factorial structure of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) and assess its validity and reliability among students at Al-Mustansiriyah University. The scale, originally developed by Spielberger and colleagues in its revised version (Y) (1983) based on Spielberger’s theory, consists of 40 self-report items equally distributed across two subscales. Each item has four graded response options. Half of the items were formulated to measure anxiety directly, while the other half were reverse-scored to reflect the absence of anxiety.

After translating the scale and verifying the accuracy of the translation, a pilot study was conducted on a sample of 20 students. The scale was then administered to a stratified random sample of 240 students from Al-Mustansiriyah University. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed using the principal components method, and the Kaiser criterion was applied to determine the number of factors. Orthogonal rotation using Varimax was conducted, and the results indicated the presence of two subscales consistent with the original scale. All items loaded significantly on their respective factors except for two items, which had loadings below 0.30.For reliability, the test-retest method and internal consistency (using Cronbach’s alpha) were employed, yielding satisfactory results.

In light of these findings, the study recommends adopting the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory in the fields of psychological counseling, educational guidance, and vocational counseling in Iraqi universities.
  استهدف البحث الحالي التحقق من البنية العاملية لمقياس قلق الحالة وقلق السمة وتقييم عامليه لدى طلبة الجامعة المستنصرية ، والتعرف على دلالات ثبات المقياس وعامليه ، اعد سبيلبيرجر وزملائه المقياس بصورته المعدلة ( )(Y1983) استنادا الى نظرية سبيلبيرجر، يتكون المقياس من (40) فقرة مصاغة بأسلوب التقرير الذاتي ،موزعة  بالتساوي على مقياسين فرعيين، وامام كل فقرة اربعة بدائل متدرجة للإجابة، نصف الفقرات صيغت مع قياس القلق والنصف الاخر بعكس قياس القلق .
  وبعد ترجمة المقياس والتحقق من صدق ترجمته، واجراء التجربة الاستطلاعية على (20) طالب وطالبة ، طبق المقياس على عينة البحث والبالغة (240) طالب وطالبة اختيروا بالأسلوب الطبقي العشوائي من طلبة الجامعة المستنصرية ، واجري التحليل العاملي الكشفي بطريقة المكونات الاساسية واستخدم محك كايزر لتحديد عدد العوامل وتم اجراء التدوير المتعامد للمحاور بطريقة الفاريماكس ، واظهرت النتائج وجود مقياسين فرعيين للمقياس مماثلة للمقياس الاصلية ، اذ تشبعت جميع فقرات المقياس ،ماعدا فقرتين اذ كان تشبعها اقل من (0.30).وفيما يتعلق بدلالات ثبات المقياس فقد تم الاعتماد على طريقتي الاعادة وطريقة الاتساق الداخلي باستعمال معادلة الفا كرونباخ وكانت جميع النتائج جيدة.
  وفي ضوء ذلك يوصي البحث، باعتماد مقياس قلق الحالة وقلق السمة في ميدان الارشاد النفسي والتوجيه التربوي والمهني في الجامعات العراقية.

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