Devenir plus productif passe par un apprentissage du respect de ses propres limites et de ses propres besoins dans le travail. Entre risques psychosociaux, qualité de vie au travail, stratégie de productivité et liens sociaux, c’est à travers des outils psychométriques (tests de personnalité) que nous abordons aujourd’hui cette thématique de psychologie du travail. Quelques …
Interview with Maria Alice, psychiatric intern
Can you quickly introduce yourself: who are you, what has been your career path and where are you today? Hello ! My name is Maria Alice and I am currently finishing my psychiatric internship. I studied medicine and then chose to specialize in mental health. The psychiatry residency lasts four years and consists of eight …
Caroline’s interview: psychotherapist specialized in energy psychology and the Internal Family System
Can you quickly introduce yourself: who are you, what has been your career path and where are you today? My name is Caroline Intrand and I am a lawyer by training. I first started out doing corporate and business law, then I continued in human rights and more specifically in migration issues, notably by working …
Living is conjugated in the present tense
Why? What do we have to learn from the present moment? “Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero”, approximately “Pick the day without worrying about tomorrow”. Where does this quote come from? It is taken from the Latin verses of the poet Horace and its inspiration comes from Epicureanism and Stoicism. Mistakenly translated as “enjoy the …
Forgiving yourself: a long way to inner strength
Why is this? The issue of forgiveness can refer to both the forgiveness that is asked for and the forgiveness that is given. In the case of self-forgiveness, one and the same person is responsible for both. It may seem a little strange to imagine a situation where we would have to apologize to ourselves, …
How to better cope with failure?
WHY? I have failed. This sentence sometimes resounds with terrible accents in our minds. Beyond the negative emotions that the feeling of failure brings, it is usually also the cause of a demobilization. Indeed, if I am not worthy of accomplishing something, then what is the point of accomplishing anything? Dignity is at the heart …
The art of procrastination: how to cure it?
The art of procrastination Are you similar to Oblomov, the character created in 1859 by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, who gave birth to the neologism “oblomovism”, designating a “total inertia resulting from an apathy towards everything that happens in the world”? According to Sebastian Dieguez (Cerveau & Psycho N°66), oblomovism, for philosophers and psychoanalysts, …
How to take advantage of confinement to unleash your creativity?
WHY? From infancy to adulthood, play is an activity that we all engage in. Indeed, the game of charm that the adult induces in social relations is not so different from the game that the child uses to distract himself. To distract themselves from what, by the way? Winnicott explains that it is to overcome …
Tame your solitude to better find your place in group relationships
WHY? It is no secret that many changes occur during adolescence. Group relationships are one of the fields of experience of these changes. Indeed, social relationships cannot be said to remain the same between middle school and high school, high school and college, or the working world. For those of us who adapt to our …
How to learn to live with our anxiety : action, a fundamental therapeutic method
WHY? Whatever our background, one particular emotional experience is common to us all: anxiety. Whether it is expressed by physical manifestations (dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing…), whether it is accompanied by negative emotions (fear, sadness, anger…), whether it occurs occasionally or seems to persist over time, whether it acts consciously or unconsciously, there is perhaps no …