Projects

ASPD: Sociopathy & Psychopathy

ASPD: Sociopathy & Psychopathy

ASPD is a common appellation, more modern, to describe both sociopathy and psychopathy, as well as any variation that involves structural anti-social behaviour. It is not just a different term, it is also a different to conceptualise the disorder, according to the...

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NPD Symptoms – Narcissistic Personality Disorder

NPD Symptoms – Narcissistic Personality Disorder

NPD symptoms are ego-led and drama-fueled: Inflated sense of self-importance and self worth, deep and regular need for admiration or attention, inability to respect sound boundaries. NPD symptoms typically also mean that their relations are unstable and their partners...

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BPD Symptoms – Borderline Personality Disorder

BPD Symptoms – Borderline Personality Disorder

BPD Symptoms make this personality disorder particularly difficult and painful for their environment, loved ones, family and friends, as well to a large degree themselves. BPD is a complex condition, often challenging (but not impossible) to treat. It is characterised...

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Chronic pain & Chronic fatigue

Chronic pain & Chronic fatigue

Patients suffering from chronic pain incur a direct cost to their psychological, social, financial well being. Chronic pain can only be mitigated to a point by pharmacology but a growing body of research focuses on the therapeutic tools most effective at managing that...

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Sexology & Sexual dysfunction

Sexology & Sexual dysfunction

Despite being integral to our lives, sex has not seen serious therapeutic inquiry before the 60’s, hushed by cultural taboo. Only iin the late 40’s the Kinsey report started cataloguing sexual activity of male and female Americans. Its findings, largely devoid of...

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Emotional Management

Emotional Management

Emotional management, and related emotion focused therapies include a wide array of psychological phenomena. They are another common reason why clients and patients consult psychotherapeutic and psychiatric professionals. Emotion focused therapies aim to arm the...

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Fears & Phobia

Fears & Phobia

We all have natural fears, to objective threats that may cause us substantial harm. But what happens when we develop a tear in our mental health along the lines of a specific event, a place or a person, that brings automatic and disproportionate feelings of panic?...

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Drugs & Substances abuse

Drugs & Substances abuse

Drugs and addictive substances have been around us since time eternal. Their treatment varies individual to individual and include commonly pharmacology (we can refer someone) all the way to talk-therapy. What defines a substance as “class A” in one country may be...

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Trauma & PTSD

Trauma & PTSD

There is not two ways about it, our brain is always on the look out for us, trying to protect us from harm and pain. And our brains are very “pavlovian” in many ways, hurt once they will start identifying the context of each hurtful event and associate it with hurt....

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Couples & Relationships counselling

Couples & Relationships counselling

Relationships between sentient beings are always a challenge. As two individuals change in their time on a personal level, across years and events and changing statuses, two egos must be accommodated and contented. Demanding, humbling for our egos, enriching for our...

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Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are damaging to the quality of life of the patient, reducing their health, and often curtailing their social freedom and attractiveness (perceived or real). The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating, each...

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD) include a variety of ritualised behaviors that clients perform to, broadly speaking, alleviate the pain of obsessive hurtful self-talk. The “Obsessive” part refers to the forced rumination and painful self-talk, the “Compulsive”...

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