Petya Milcheva Counselling and psychotherapy
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A space for everyday reflection.
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
- Henri Poincaré, French scientist
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
- Henri Poincaré, French scientist
“What are the things you wanted to say but you never did?” - A collective artwork by the artist Geloy Concepcion.
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“What are the things you wanted to say but you never did?” - A collective artwork by the artist Geloy Concepcion.
“We need to help young people and their parents understand that it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help.” ―The Duchess of Cambridge
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12 Celebrities Get Real On The Power Of Going To Therapy
Amen. 🙌
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October 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“We need to help young people and their parents understand that it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help.” ―The Duchess of Cambridge
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It is shown that the presence of an observe enhances the emotional experiences and bond of the family with the baby.
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It is shown that the presence of an observe enhances the emotional experiences and bond of the family with the baby.
"We become who we are through the responses of others. The self is not born in isolation but in relation... It is a self that emerges in dialogue with the gaze of the other, a reflection of the world’s expectations more than his essence."
- Neil Chakravartula, social and critical psychologist
- Neil Chakravartula, social and critical psychologist
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"We become who we are through the responses of others. The self is not born in isolation but in relation... It is a self that emerges in dialogue with the gaze of the other, a reflection of the world’s expectations more than his essence."
- Neil Chakravartula, social and critical psychologist
- Neil Chakravartula, social and critical psychologist
"We become who we are through the responses of others. The self is not born in isolation but in relation... It is a self that emerges in dialogue with the gaze of the other, a reflection of the world’s expectations more than his essence."
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/indi...
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/indi...
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Questioning the shortcoming of diagnosis as it separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"We become who we are through the responses of others. The self is not born in isolation but in relation... It is a self that emerges in dialogue with the gaze of the other, a reflection of the world’s expectations more than his essence."
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/indi...
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/indi...
“I may remind you that patients do not react to theatrical phrases, but only to real sincere sympathy.”
- Sandor Ferenczi, Confusion of Tongues
Art: Georgia O'Keeffe, White Iris No. 7
1957
- Sandor Ferenczi, Confusion of Tongues
Art: Georgia O'Keeffe, White Iris No. 7
1957
September 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“I may remind you that patients do not react to theatrical phrases, but only to real sincere sympathy.”
- Sandor Ferenczi, Confusion of Tongues
Art: Georgia O'Keeffe, White Iris No. 7
1957
- Sandor Ferenczi, Confusion of Tongues
Art: Georgia O'Keeffe, White Iris No. 7
1957
"My problem, as I realised in a session not long ago with my psychoanalyst, is that I have been swimming in shallow waters."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A better life is possible – but only if you dive deep into your unconscious
We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallows
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September 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"My problem, as I realised in a session not long ago with my psychoanalyst, is that I have been swimming in shallow waters."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"These patients came to me in various states of despair. Maybe it is only in this state of mind – when we are unsure of what to do, when we no longer know which way to go – that we are motivated to understand ourselves better."
The long read:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The long read:
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‘Are you asking for my help to be gay?’: what 40 years as a psychoanalyst has taught me about sex and desire
A married man’s hidden bisexual life; a PhD student’s sideline in sex work; a nun’s fear of pregnancy – over my long career, all have been laid bare in the intimate space of my consulting room
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September 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"These patients came to me in various states of despair. Maybe it is only in this state of mind – when we are unsure of what to do, when we no longer know which way to go – that we are motivated to understand ourselves better."
The long read:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The long read:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
“Shall I say that, for a child to be brought up so that he can discover the deepest part of his nature, someone has to be defied, and even at times hated, and who but the child’s own parents can be in a position to be hated without there being a danger of a complete break in the relationship?”
September 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Shall I say that, for a child to be brought up so that he can discover the deepest part of his nature, someone has to be defied, and even at times hated, and who but the child’s own parents can be in a position to be hated without there being a danger of a complete break in the relationship?”
"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
- Marcus Aurelius
Art: Figure At The Seaside, Pablo Picasso
- Marcus Aurelius
Art: Figure At The Seaside, Pablo Picasso
March 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
- Marcus Aurelius
Art: Figure At The Seaside, Pablo Picasso
- Marcus Aurelius
Art: Figure At The Seaside, Pablo Picasso
“The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child... (+1st comment)
March 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child... (+1st comment)
"Skin contact re-establishes the mother’s intimate feelings for her baby, as if they were once again merged, like they were in pregnancy, when the mother’s skin contained them both. The skin becomes a medium for physical contact, for the comfort of holding and of being held... (+1st comment)
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Skin contact re-establishes the mother’s intimate feelings for her baby, as if they were once again merged, like they were in pregnancy, when the mother’s skin contained them both. The skin becomes a medium for physical contact, for the comfort of holding and of being held... (+1st comment)
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.”
- Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition
Art: Mtichells Cottage Watercolor, Susan Harrison-Tustain
- Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition
Art: Mtichells Cottage Watercolor, Susan Harrison-Tustain
March 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.”
- Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition
Art: Mtichells Cottage Watercolor, Susan Harrison-Tustain
- Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition
Art: Mtichells Cottage Watercolor, Susan Harrison-Tustain
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
March 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
"Our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy."
March 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy."
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?”
March 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?”
Tronick's Still Face Experiment
"It's a little like the good, the bad, and the ugly. The "good" is that normal stuff that goes on, that we all do with our kids. The "bad" is when something bad happens but the infant can overcome it.
"It's a little like the good, the bad, and the ugly. The "good" is that normal stuff that goes on, that we all do with our kids. The "bad" is when something bad happens but the infant can overcome it.
March 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Tronick's Still Face Experiment
"It's a little like the good, the bad, and the ugly. The "good" is that normal stuff that goes on, that we all do with our kids. The "bad" is when something bad happens but the infant can overcome it.
"It's a little like the good, the bad, and the ugly. The "good" is that normal stuff that goes on, that we all do with our kids. The "bad" is when something bad happens but the infant can overcome it.
"There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live."
- Karen Horney, psychoanalyst
Art: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
- Karen Horney, psychoanalyst
Art: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live."
- Karen Horney, psychoanalyst
Art: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
- Karen Horney, psychoanalyst
Art: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
"For our purposes, the essential discovery of psycho-analysis is this: that an impulse which is prevented, by behaviourist methods, from finding overt expression in action, does not necessarily die, but is driven underground, and finds some new outlet which has not been inhibited by training. (+1 c)
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"For our purposes, the essential discovery of psycho-analysis is this: that an impulse which is prevented, by behaviourist methods, from finding overt expression in action, does not necessarily die, but is driven underground, and finds some new outlet which has not been inhibited by training. (+1 c)
"No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it."
- Albert Einstein
Art: The art of living, René Magritte
- Albert Einstein
Art: The art of living, René Magritte
March 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it."
- Albert Einstein
Art: The art of living, René Magritte
- Albert Einstein
Art: The art of living, René Magritte
"The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing an ideological school and a tight therapeutic system is treacherous: such belief may block the uncertain and spontaneous encounter necessary for effective therapy. This encounter, the very heart of psychotherapy, is a caring (+1st com)
March 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing an ideological school and a tight therapeutic system is treacherous: such belief may block the uncertain and spontaneous encounter necessary for effective therapy. This encounter, the very heart of psychotherapy, is a caring (+1st com)
Indeed. People are owed more information about the nature and complexities of our work, as well as how the private sector is, in fact, regulated.
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NCPS Response to Stephen Kinnock MP, Minister of State for Care,…
Join the Accredited Register A Society Registrant is listed publicly on our website and is recorded as a Registrant in our Accredited Register. The Society allows Registrants to progress through diff...
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March 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Indeed. People are owed more information about the nature and complexities of our work, as well as how the private sector is, in fact, regulated.
ncps.com/blog/posts/n...
ncps.com/blog/posts/n...
"Nothing is more common than the idea that we, the people living in the Western world of the twentieth century, are eminently sane. Even the fact that a great number of individuals in our midst suffer from more or less severe forms of mental illness produces little doubt with respect to...(+1st com)
March 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Nothing is more common than the idea that we, the people living in the Western world of the twentieth century, are eminently sane. Even the fact that a great number of individuals in our midst suffer from more or less severe forms of mental illness produces little doubt with respect to...(+1st com)
"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist... The therapy effected by life itself is not, however, within one's control. Neither hardships nor friendships nor religious experience can be arranged to... (+1st comment)
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist... The therapy effected by life itself is not, however, within one's control. Neither hardships nor friendships nor religious experience can be arranged to... (+1st comment)