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Questions about depression

Questions about depression

In a depressive phase, knowledge is already the first step towards feeling better. Here you will find all the practical information about the illness. Meeting an illness for the first time is a trial for anyone. With depression there is an aggravating factor: an accurate diagnosis cannot always be made quickly. At the beginning especially, there is a great deal of uncertainty among those affected. Am I actually depressed? Or am I just a bit sad? I would like to offer some support at this stage and answer some of the most important

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The unconscious according to Freud

The unconscious according to Freud

Sigmund Freud laid the foundations of modern psychology. Eric Berne's transactional analysis and most of the tenets of neuro-linguistic programming are built on his discoveries. Reading Freud's paper ‘The Unconscious’, I could not shake off a feeling of déjà vu and the suspicion that in the past hundred years psychologists have not come up with anything new. They have merely renamed things, deepened them a little and broadened them. But Freud is no writer of light fiction.

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