« This bond of attachment, by being internalized, would later serve as the main model for all the intimate and social relationships of the individual. It serves as a primary relational basis, influencing all interactions with an emotional component (from camaraderie or friendship to romantic and conjugal relationships). When it is fragile, it can evolve through psychotherapy or become more assured through stable encounters and attachment figures. »
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Ariane Calvo
50 Key Concepts on Psychology for Dummies |
Ariane Calvo
50 Key Concepts on Psychology for Dummies
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« Empathy refers to the ability to put yourself in the place of the other, to feel the emotions and to understand the reactions of the other without identifying, or projecting one's own feelings on the other and without merging with what he says or does. »
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Ariane Calvo
50 Key Concepts on Psychology for Dummies |
Ariane Calvo
50 Key Concepts on Psychology for Dummies
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« Reversing the process of mistreating ourselves in order to move forward, to evolve towards understanding and gradually changing our behaviours, leads to a tenderness and delicacy towards ourselves that allows us to breathe, that does deep good. We can even learn to forgive ourselves. This is the most difficult, but also the most essential. If we do not know how to forgive ourselves, who do we expect a valid pardon from? »
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Ariane Calvo
Finding vital momentum |
Ariane Calvo
Finding vital momentum
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