Therapy (17 contents)
Psychotherapy (28 contents)
The autism spectrum and personality disorders: why is an accurate diagnosis so important?
Autism spectrum disorders and personality disorders are two distinct groups of mental disorders. The former are associated with abnormalities present from early childhood, whilst the latter are...
When medication doesn’t help: psychological methods for managing gynaecological pain
Many women, when their gynaecologist suggests they seek help from a psychologist, react with disbelief: “But this pain isn’t all in my head.” Endometriosis, painful periods, vulvodynia and chronic...
Grieving after a miscarriage is genuine grief – how can you cope with it?
A miscarriage is more than just the loss of a pregnancy. It is also the loss of dreams, plans and visions of the future that began to take shape the moment two lines appeared on the test. When a...
Online psychotherapy: effectiveness and risks
Psychotherapy is generally associated with a couch, where the patient lies down and tells the therapist about his or her problems. Although this is sometimes indeed the case, in the vast majority of...
How do you prepare yourself and your child for a visit to a child psychologist?
In recent decades there has been a rapid increase in the demand for psychological help for children. A visit to a child psychologist can cause anxiety, so it is worth preparing both yourself and your...
Pandemic burnout - when to seek help and a specialist?
The pandemic that is upon us for another year in a row is negatively affecting the mental state of many people. Lockdown, isolation, closed schools, restricted contacts... Are we in danger of a wave...
Group therapy: what is it and to whom can it be recommended?
Psychiatrists repeatedly stress that psychiatric treatment is not only pharmacotherapy, but also various psychotherapeutic interventions. The latter includes various methods, as both individual...
What treatment methods are used in psychiatry?
Psychiatry is mainly associated with the conversations that take place between a psychiatrist and his patient. Certainly, dialogue can have a beneficial effect on the patient's mental state, but the...
Conscious dreams: what are they and what can be done to dream consciously?
Conscious dreams are both an interesting and rather controversial phenomenon. This is because it is a term used to describe dreams whose action is determined by the dreamer himself - he can influence...
World Mental Health Day
10 October is World Mental Health Day, which was established by the World Federation for Mental Health in 1992. The event aims to draw attention to and deepen public awareness of issues specifically...
Learn the ins and outs of addiction treatment
Addiction is a form of compulsive behaviour, the symptom of which is a strong desire to consume a particular drug or perform an activity. There are many types of addiction (including alcohol, drugs,...
Drug addiction - a growing problem of the 21st century
At the beginning of the 21st century, addiction to medicines has become more and more common - not only those prescribed by prescription, especially as obtaining them requires some commitment on the...
I'm not crazy! - treatment under the guidance of a psychotherapist like any other
I recall a joke in which a man taking public transport to work every day confuses the buses and gets on another one. It turns out that the bus is carrying patients of one of the institutions for...
Why deal with the body?
Working with the body can prove to be a breakthrough in the psychotherapy process. It unlocks, sensitises people to their own physical and psychological needs. It can prove supportive where other...
What is humanistic psychotherapy about?
Historically, humanistic psychotherapy was supposed to be a completely new proposal, which was created in opposition to the currents used before. It was even referred to as the "third force in...
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is derived from psychoanalysis, which is the oldest current in psychotherapy. The forerunners of other currents, which often arose in counterpoint to psychoanalysis,...
Characteristics of cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy
Cognitive-behavioural psych otherapy is becoming increasingly popular in Poland. Psychiatrists are increasingly referring psychiatrists to it, and more and more books on this approach are being...
