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Emotional Estrangement
Emotions are complex experiences that at times overwhelm us. They can bring us to states of joy and happiness, but they can also drop us into states of anger or sadness that feel insurmountable. Many...
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Metaphor and Symbol: An Expressive Medium
Metaphor is the expressive medium of symbols, an expression that exists in a more raw, personified context. From a psychological perspective, metaphor provides the ability to make psychological...
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From Realization to Integration: Creating Meaning out of the Chaos
The experience of addiction is a complex process that involves dissociation. Dissociation can take the form of disconnection between the mind, body, and emotions. This post will explore the topic of...
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The Images of Emotion
“I managed to translate the emotions into images—that is to say, to find the images which were concealed in the emotions” (Jung, 1961/1989, p. 177). Emotions are powerful forces that can at times...
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The Loneliness in Addiction
Rogers (1980) informed that an “element in our loneliness is the lack of any relationship in which we communicate our real experience…to another” (p. 166). When writing on the topic of how the addict...
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Symbolic Representations, Projections, Addiction, and Other
Singer (1965) explained that authors might hold opposing views, yet “the generally assumed commonality enables one human to grasp another experience through understanding his [her] symbolizations”...
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Emotions are complex experiences that at times overwhelm us. They can bring us to states of joy and happiness, but they can also drop us into states of anger or sadness that feel insurmountable. Many...
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Empathy and Addiction: A Quest for Connection
How is the individual to embrace an empathetic approach towards an individualized occurrence of addiction? Just as there are a variety of ways in how one might define empathy, there too is both a...
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Chaos, Disorder, and Burdens
There are numerous elements that can contribute to chaos or disorder in an addict’s life. When someone becomes entangled in addiction, the consequences and effects essentially govern the psyche in such...
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