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8 questions about autumn-winter depression

8 questions about autumn-winter depression

When a lack of energy and depression come back in the dark half of the year, people speak of autumn and winter depression. What do you need to know about it?The rhythm of the seasons affects our feelings and our behaviour. In some people these seasonal changes bring sharp swings of mood and energy. Autumn - winter depression comes back year after year. It is one of the seasonal disorders of emotional life, which is why it is also called seasonally dependent depression. What is particular about autumn-winter depression and what treatm

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Van Gogh's madhouse. The history of art therapy

Van Gogh's madhouse. The history of art therapy

Van Gogh is famous for more than cutting off his own ear. It was Freud in Austria who raised psychiatry to the rank of a science, but what I am writing is an ode to art therapy, which was brought into the world by the famous Dutchman Van Gogh thanks to the Christian mercy of one of the most creative French psychiatric asylums in Provence.

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The power of the family line, or how the Immortal Regiment helps the psyche

The power of the family line, or how the Immortal Regiment helps the psyche

The Immortal Regiment is a grassroots movement for preserving the memory of the strength, the courage and the deeds of our forebears. Every year participants march in a column through the streets of towns and cities carrying photographs of their dead relatives, and enter their family stories in a chronicle. This initiative is criticised by people who do not see the enormous psychological component the event carries, one that is chronically lacking in the modern world. It is the personal psychological value of the Immortal Regiment that this ar

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