Bits of Psychology. Enactment.

  In 'Bits of Psychology' I explain or describe terminology that I find to be interesting. Most of the time they are snippets from some kind of dictionairy or sometimes the concepts are described more in depth.   ---------------------------------------   Enactment.   A scene set in the original event and interaction, without being consciously remembered. …

Bits of Psychology. False Self.

False Self. Winnicott used the term of False Self to refer to two situations: In the first one it is the structure that protects the self, it is the social façade. In the other situation the child will develop a personality (a false self) due to disturbing reactions from its surrounding and not based upon …

Word of the week. Wrecked by success.

  Wrecked by success.    Freud dedicated a dissertation to people wrecked by success. In the first place, those are people who achieved more success than their parents and they experience this (subconsciously) as unfair. This can result in so many feelings of guilt that they wipe this success out or sink away in a …