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Emotional Repression vs Niceness
Emotional repression in most cases is expressed as niceness
In people with a weak sense of self, there is often un unhealthy fusion with others.
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The defence against experience Anger
The acting-out, the yelling, the screaming and even the hitting serves as a defence against the experience of the anger. So, we repress the anger.
Repression and discharge are two sides of the same coin.
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Repression of Anger
If the expression of anger is harmful and so is its repression, how do we hope to attaint health and healing?
- in the repression the problem is a lack of release
- in the release the problem is with unregulated and exaggerated venting
Both repression and rage represent...
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Emotional competence
What we want and demand from the world needs to conform to our present needs not to unconscious, unsatisfied needs from childhood.
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Anger is the energy Mother Nature gives us as little kids to stand forward on our own behalf and say I matter.
JOANN PETERSON
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Rage - What do people really experience when they experience it?
Most of people will describe anxiety: tightening of the voice, shallow breathing, muscle tension - signs of anxiety not rage.
Anger triggers anxiety because it coexist with positive feelings, with love and the desire for contact. Anger leads to an attacking energy, it thre...
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Healthy Anger
...is an empowerment and a relaxation.
...is physiologic experience without acting out
When healthy anger is starting to be experienced, you don't see anything dramatic. What you do see is a decrease of all muscle tension.
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Art as therapy
Artistic expression by itself is only a form of acting out emotions, not a way of working them through.
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Repression Vs Suppression
Suppression (often confused with repression) is a type of defence mechanism, where a person consciously tries to forget or not think of certain unwanted impulses or thoughts.
With repression, this activity happens automatically without any conscious effort or intention.
Types Of Repression
- Primary repression is when unwanted impulses are hidden even before it reaches consciousness, and happens entirely in the unconscious mind. There is almost no awareness of the repression activity on the individual.
- Repression proper is when a perso...
Repression and the controversy around it
Repression has been a controversial topic in recent times:
- In the field of psychoanalysis, there are people who both sustain and deny the beneficial effects of repression.
- In regards to our memory, there is a controversy on whether hidden o...
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