Psychology

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addiction often have a common ancestor – trauma. Studies show that 60-70 percent of people who abuse psychoactive substances (SPS) have an early trauma in their experience. And people who have PTSD, especially complicated or complex, often abuse. Moreover, addiction can be not only due to SPS, but also in the form of overeating, anorexia, shopaholicism,

Drive is a borderline concept between the spiritual and the somatic, as a psychic representative of stimuli that come from the body and reach the soul (psyche), as a measure of the necessary work imposed on the psyche as a result of its connection with the bodily. “Drive” means “to set in motion, to push”. It is activity, a dynamic force. The two most effective forces in a person are hunger and love. The two most powerful

Language communication is what distinguishes humans from animals. Although there are some species of mammals, for example, dolphins, which actively use sound signals to communicate with each other. However, dolphins do not have abstract thinking, and it develops only thanks to language. Language allows a person to communicate, which affects the emergence of a feeling of attachment primarily to the one who cares

A year ago, Russia launched a full-scale war in Ukraine. From the first day of the war, Ukrainians have been losing their compatriots, relatives, friends and acquaintances, beloved pets and homes. For a Ukrainian psychologist, it is important to help yourself and others cope with grief, while traumatic events continue. Grief is complicated and long-lasting. It is a very difficult task to “cope with grief” when war

While working in Norway with Ukrainians at a health center for refugees, I had interesting observations of the relationship between Ukrainians and the state, which acts as a Father. There are several common areas of interaction. When Ukrainians are ashamed to take social assistance from the state. There is no experience of a Caring Father here. When Ukrainians do not want to work because there is social assistance, why bother