Category: Psychotherapy

Affective dependency is not exactly considered an illness or a mental disorder, but in many of cases it’s the reason a person asks the intervention of a clinical psychologist.
Because of the serious repercussions on the emotional balance of the person, and on his/her self-determination, emotional dependence has to be considered a serious problem with severe consequences. But where it does come from?

Cyberbullying is a form of psychological and emotional abuse that can have lasting effects on the development of a teenager’s psyche. To prove it there are data of research conducted on animal models, but also on samples of children victims of this kind of harassment....

The Dissociative Identity Disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct states of personalities, which are called alternative identities. Each state has its own ways of perceiving, relating, and thinking towards itself and the environment. At least two of these identities or...

Act. Not just an acronym. The Acceptance and commitment Therapy, or ACT, is a form of cognitive-matrix psychotherapy with good scientific background. It is part of the “third wave” of cognitive behavioral therapies. The ACT is based on Relational Frame Theory: a research program that...

Fear of getting sick ” When I woke up this morning I noticed a slight spasm in the left hand, like a tremor… I asked my wife what it could be but she liquidated me saying that in recently I have done more checks than anyone...

A somatic print We can all be exposed to events that go beyond our capacity for processing and our tolerance capacity. An accident, a catastrophe, a violence, they are all traumatic events. Potentially, because psychic trauma assumes a definite mental state: impotence. For this reason,...