Your Defenses and You
We typically use “defensive” in colloquial speech to label certain sets of behaviors that get stirred up in other people, but we all use defenses unconsciously to ward off anxiety-provoking feelings that get stirred up in different contexts. It can be very difficult for an individual to see how their own defenses operate, but this is paramount in self-understanding and emotional liberation. The Defense of Self Neglect and IgnoringPatient: (sighs and...
Back to Shanghai: Transitional Anxiety Tips!
Returning to Shanghai after a summer break can be a challenging experience for many expatriates. The transition from a relaxed vacation atmosphere back to the fast-paced, high-pressure environment of Shanghai often brings with it a unique set of emotional and psychological challenges, including transition anxiety. There are many effective ways to help deal with transition anxiety, the most effective being having appropriate support during the transition at hand. Transitional Anxiety and...
Practical Anxiety Tips You Won’t Find on Social Media
It is common knowledge that anxiety can cause symptoms such as restlessness, difficulty concentrating, fatigue and nausea, but did you know that these are actually classified as different types of anxiety and the way to deal with them is all different? Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) has an extremely meticulous theoretical framework for identifying and regulating anxiety. Understanding and having a systematic way of regulating your own anxiety according...
A Psychotherapy You’ve Likely Never Heard Of
ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) is a unique model of experiential psychotherapy that less than 1% of therapists in the world practice. ISTDP’s therapeutic approach and interventions were specifically designed for patients whose traditional therapy did not work. ISTDP has its roots in psychoanalytic theory. It uses a special way of looking at the causes of suffering and how to attain long-lasting healing (from what is usually a lifetime of...