Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dilarom Demiralay In the mid-70s, Stanislav Grof, a well-known specialist in transpersonal psychology, and his wife Kristina developed a method of deep empirical self-exploration and therapy, which was called holotropic breathing. This method, combining such simple elements as accelerated breathing, ethnic, ritual and trance music, as well as certain forms of body…
What is psychological resistance? These are all the forces in the psyche of a person (client) that counteract an unpleasant situation or psychological help, because it is associated with the inevitability of painful sensations (psychological pain). Why do we need psychological protection? We have already mentioned above that protection, including psychological, protects any person from…
Intensive automation of industrial technological processes has contributed over the past decades to rapid changes in the psychosocial environment in the workplace and in the relationships of workers, expressed in the formation of psychosocial stress. Stress can also arise in non-organized areas of a person’s life, including the home environment (marital relationships, financial problems), social…
You will hardly find people who look forward to gray autumn days, dreary winter nights. Most people feel better in the summer when it is sunny and warm. We spend more time outdoors, enjoy sports and eat less. But for some people, the transition from summer to winter is much more than a mild disappointment.…
I. Test “Hand” – was used to diagnose aggressive behavior. This is an adaptation of the projective methodology of E. Wagner, Z. Riotrovsky, B. Bricklin. It allows you to assess the likelihood of aggressive tendencies in behavior, as well as other personality traits. The stimulus material consists of 9 cards depicting a human hand in…
Examination of the determinants of anonymous behavior of adolescents in the internet environment The modern child has indeed become “different” in many ways. According to the results of a study on motivation to use the Internet, according to users, the Internet now helps to meet most of their needs – in communication, entertainment, learning new…
Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Demiralay/DocNo:202206-0117/Jun/01/2022 Abstract : The multifaceted images that a person creates are not limited only to the information he has seen or heard. Before him, doors to such spaces of the subconscious can open, which he could not even think about. This opens up great possibilities for a person. He is able to…
Mental health criteria What does it mean to be a mentally healthy person and what should psychotherapy be focused on? Modern guidelines for psychotherapy are too focused on working with specific symptoms, which leads to a loss of a holistic perception of the mental health of patients. For example, a client who introduces new patterns…
The crisis that arose in psychology at the beginning of the 20th century caused the long-term use of introspection as the main method of scientific research to become obsolete. It turns out that only with the help of internal self-observation it is impossible to explain a number of fundamental problems of psychology itself. A crisis…