PSIHOTERAPIE SI DEZVOLTARE PERSONALA

"It is justifiable to regard the term 'sickness' as pertaining not tothe acute turmoil but to the pre-psychotic personality, standing as itdoes in need of profound reorganization. In this case, the renewalprocess occuring in the acute psychotic episode may be considerednature's way of setting things right." - John Weir Perry MICHAEL O'CALLAGHAN: How does one define so-called schizophrenia? JOHN WEIR PERRY: Jung defined it most succinctly. He said"Schizophrenia is a condition in which the dream takes the place ofreality." This means that the unconscious overwhelms theego-consciousness, overwhelms the field of awareness with contentsfrom the deepest unconscious, which take mythic, symbolic form. Andthe emotions, unless they're hidden, are quite mythic too. To acareful observer, they're quite appropriate to the situation at hand. The way "schizophrenia" unfolds is that, in a situation of personalcrisis, all the psyche's energy is s...

How The Brain Rewires Itself By Sharon Begley It was a fairly modest experiment, as these things go, with volunteers trooping into the lab at Harvard Medical School to learn and practice a little five-finger piano exercise. Neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone instructed the members of one group to play as fluidly as they could, trying to keep to the metronome's 60 beats per minute. Every day for five days, the volunteers practiced for two hours. Then they took a test. At the end of each day's practice session, they sat beneath a coil of wire that sent a brief magnetic pulse into the motor cortex of their brain, located in a strip running from the crown of the head toward each ear. The so-called transcranial-magnetic-stimulation (TMS) test allows scientists to infer the function of neurons just beneath the coil. In the piano players, the TMS mapped how much of the motor cortex controlled the finger movements needed for the piano exercise. What the scientists found was that after...