Individual Couple Family Group

Individual Couple Family Group

Individual Couple Family Group All serious, professional psychotherapies, those in which the therapists have done long-term psychotherapy themselves and have entered special educational programs, aim – on behalf of their clients – at self-understanding and the creation of deeper relationships in life. Whether it’s individual therapy or couples therapy, family therapy or group therapy. All four forms of psychotherapeutic intervention are based on the relationship that develops between the therapist and the other (individual, couple, family, group).

Individual Couple Family Group

This relationship is the field in which the phenomena of transference appear. That is, the patients can see me as they want because my side is governed by neutrality and mirroring. I’m not there to play the game everyone wants. All of us in this life, having learned to function and behave in certain ways, having incorporated the feelings of our childhood, put ourselves out as we think we know ourselves. And without realizing it, we ask others to play with us the same game we play. We are essentially asking others to come into our world so that we can use them as we wish. This mechanism is very powerful and unconscious. It is impossible to avoid him. Our very existence “asks” others to play a role. The more disturbed one is, the more one asks for this and with even greater intensity. It forces you to act the part. And many times, even if this is not obvious, it can be done in an underground way. In other words, getting into a role that I don’t want to get into, but I’m being led to get into without my being aware of it. At the treatment level. the therapist understands this and does not play the game. This difference is fundamental and leads the relationship on the healing path because it forces the psyche to discover new ways of relationship. It eventually abandons the usual pattern and turns to real feelings. Those that are hidden, buried and suppressed. It is this oppression that creates the symptoms we call: “neurotic”.

Individual Couple Family Group – The Depth And Breadth Of Relationships

Relationships are not just what one learns in the first six years of one’s life. There we happen to have the people we did not choose and with whom we learn to live. But that is not the important thing in life. The important thing is that at the beginning of life we develop feelings which we later forget. Love for their opposite-sex parent. Aggression towards the representative of the same sex as us. Attachment to the figure who takes care of us in the first months of life. Murders we commit within ourselves when we are angry. Guilt that plagues us. Shame associated with the suppression of sexuality. Jealousy of our brothers. These and many other feelings, hidden and repressed, lead the self to form perceptions and behaviors that we have repressed after six years of life.

Individual Couple Family Group

Individual Couple Family Group

So at what level can one be conscious? We all live our lives unconsciously and only with the gift of therapy can we get in touch with our true selves. People who have done real healing have no qualms about speaking outside the narrow confines of shame, guilt, aggression, murder, exploitation. They know the value of the culture in which we suppress sexuality and aggression but know within themselves their true selves. So one is not afraid to enter relationships in which one will take and give. He will learn and get to know. It will create and evolve. Today the big problem is narcissism. People have the distorted impression that they themselves with their alleged omnipotence can do everything. Thus individualism and self-centeredness prevail. Relationships are getting harder and harder. Aggression abounds. In therapy one learns that one is not irreplaceable. And this is only the beginning of an ocean of discoveries and revelations that will bring the true self to the surface. I am not better than others. I may succeed in my work and be able to help some people, but from those people I learned to be more effective. From the patients and the trainings I learned and continue to learn. Nobody owes me anything. I thank others for the luck I had to be able to understand some things. The treatments helped me, so I can also help others today in some cases.

The process of psychotherapy requires commitment, dedication and is addressed only to those who seriously see that they need to change their lives. If you are thinking of starting this journey, please call me at 211 71 51 801 to make an appointment and let’s see together how I can help you.

Mixalis Paterakis
Psychologist Psychotherapist
University of Indianapolis University of Middlesex
Karneadou 37, Kolonaki (next to Evangelismos)
I accept by appointment
Tel: 211 7151 801
www.psychotherapy.net.gr
www.mixalispaterakis.gr