Reading Time: 5 minutes I visited Budapest while studying abroad in Vienna and it brought home some ancestral recollections in my 5/8 Slavically Jewish memory. I came across a stylish neo-Renaissance house that was built on Andrassy Street, a picturesque boulevard not far from the Danube, in 1880. For decades the building served as a venue for pleasant social […]
Tags:- Anxiety Confabulation Ego Ego Defenses Erik Erickson Humiliation Identification Identity Memories Mourning Perception PTSD Repression Resistance Subjectivity Trauma Vamik Volkan Violence
Reading Time: 5 minutes You aren’t going to want to hear this. You’re headstrong, stubborn, independent and determined. These are all qualities which will be useful later in life, but—you should hear me out. I write this because I know what happens next. I know what you were forced to do, how you suffered then and for so many […]
Tags:- Abuse Anger Bad Habits Fear Forgiveness Guilt Insecurity Parents Repression Ruminating Self-care Self-Esteem Self-Love Sexual Abuse Shame Suppression Threats Violence
Reading Time: 2 minutes “To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.” (Carl Jung) Whatever parts of a person are relegated to the shadows of his or her psyche become forces of unconscious behavior. In these orphaned impulses and emotions lies a potency that few dare tap into. In these disowned dreams and […]
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