Psychology

Creativity As Selfcare For The Helping Professional
Creativity As Selfcare For The Helping Professional

Creativity As Selfcare For The Helping Professional

Fenichel, a psychoanalyst said, “the patient’s wish to be cured by a magician may be equalled by the therapist’s wish to be a magician”. People in the helping profession are often expected to be such magicians, immune to the kind…

How Does Your Psychotherapist Help You With Depression?
How Does Your Psychotherapist Help You With Depression?

How Does Your Psychotherapist Help You With Depression?

“Suppression of depression is not good. Expression is always good. If depressed, share your feelings with others, it will make you feel better,” was PM Modi’s address to the nation prior to World Health Day. The passing of the Mental…

Tiny ‘positive engines’ bound towards rewarding ‘destinations’!
Tiny ‘positive engines’ bound towards rewarding ‘destinations’!

Tiny ‘positive engines’ bound towards rewarding ‘destinations’!

While studying for an elementary course on “Positive Psychology” from Coursera, I was prompted to think how the study in around negative emotions is so much more that the positive ones. Varied theories around negative emotions have filled up large…