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Does Your Ego Serve You, or Do You Serve It? What Buddhism and Freud Say About Self-Slavery

By Mark Epstein — 2018

“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”

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Talk Therapy as a Treatment Option for Phobias

Talk therapy is one of the most common treatment options for phobias, although the specifics will vary according to the client’s needs and the therapist’s school of thought.

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Lisa Fritscher
2020
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Coaches, Therapists, Healers: I Want You to Know This

Quite often, when we contemplate major change, major evolution in our lives, the reaction we get from our dear ones is a combination of an attempt at support, combined with fear that can manifest as undermining, judging us or lashing out.

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Tara Sophia Mohr
2013
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What Is Existential Theory and How Is It Used in Therapy?

"Life is filled with a lot of big questions: What’s the point? What’s the meaning? Why am I here? Existential theory tries to answer a lot of those questions to help people find meaning and understanding."

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Kimberly Holland
2020
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Hang on to Your Ego

Although many believe that the ego is just a source of trouble, Thanissaro Bhikkhu teaches that a healthy, functioning ego is a crucial tool on the path to Awakening.

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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
2007
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How to Dissolve Your Ego—and Why You Should

Ever want to move forward but find you’re in your own way?

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Scotty Hendricks
2020
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Signs of an Ego Battleship Instead of a Relationship

A real relationship is steeped in an inner knowing of ones’ inherent value. It blooms from well-loved and maintained foundation of self-knowledge, self-respect and clear values.

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Eve Hogan
2014
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Integration: Psychedelics, Spirituality and the Ego

Integration has become a buzzword in the world of psychedelics, but there are still questions being asked about what it means to be integrated, who can do it, and how it can be done.

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Sharon Rafferty
2019
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What Is the Ego, and Why Is It So Involved in My Life?

The concept of "ego" is among the most confusing in psychology.

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Mark Leary
2019
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The New Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis has fallen on hard times. Freud’s gender theories are trashed for their sexism, and his original instinct theories are regarded skeptically.

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Stephen Seligman
2019
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The Ego and the Universe: Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are

The cause of and cure for the illusion of separateness that keeps us from embracing the richness of life.

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Maria Popova
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