Since the time of Sigmund Freud, psychologists have been interested in how much of our mental life takes place outside conscious awareness. Freud developed his own theory of the unconscious, while modern psychology tends to use different ideas around automatic processing, implicit learning and habit. They’re not all describing exactly the same thing, but they […]
This year’s World Mental Health Day theme is Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change. It asks us to think about whose voices we listen to when we talk about mental health, and how much influence those voices actually have. When we think about mental health services, research or workplace policies, how often are people […]
When someone is distressed, our instinct might be to help by offering advice, solutions or a different perspective. Yet sometimes what a person needs first is to feel heard. As we mark World Suicide Prevention Day, Ronald Lee, who has served as Head of Counselling for two private universities in Malaysia, reflects on the role […]
Across the course of any close relationship, whether with a partner, friend, parent, or child, there will be moments when people misunderstand each other, get defensive, feel hurt, or say something clumsy. One common misconception is that a healthy relationship is one where there’s little to no conflict, as though love should somehow remove irritation, […]
Most of us would prefer life to offer more certainty than it does. We want to know whether we’re making the right decision, whether our plans will work out, and whether the future we imagine will be the one we end up living. The difficulty is that life rarely gives us answers to those questions […]
Many people come to therapy with the worry that they’re too sensitive, perhaps after years of feeling affected by things that other people seem to move past more easily. It might be something small on the surface, such as a friend replying with a shorter message than usual, a colleague using a sharper tone in […]
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