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On Psychotherapy, Science, and Life

A post about the connection between psychotherapy and science: why a therapist needs lived experience, academic training, and professional boundaries at the same time.

April 24, 2023 · Anton Kolhonen

DET Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
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Psychology at School

Psychology at school: adolescent inner freedom, the educational principle of do no harm, independent choice, and responsibility toward others.

March 24, 2023 · Anton Kolhonen

Personality Types🛐 On University Education
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Tension of Civilization

Tension of civilization is treated as both trial and resource: the post examines three paths of escape and Popper’s rational response.

February 23, 2023 · Anton Kolhonen

Orientation Toward Overcoming🛡 Defense Mechanisms
Stars over Pantelleria — a poetic reflection on inner silence

Stars Over Pantelleria

A poetic reflection on inner silence, memory, and moral law: the stars of Pantelleria as an image of a person's spiritual support.

June 18, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen

DET Notes✴️ Unusual Style
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Limits of the Possible

Limits of the Possible: meaning-centered motivation, discipline, cumulative practice, psychology education, and growth without a cult of productivity.

May 25, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen

Personality Types⛳️ Effectiveness
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Another Olympiad

Existential training is presented as a practice of overcoming where regular sets develop resilience, discipline, and the ability to grow through difficulties.

April 18, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen

Sport Saved My Life

Sport Saved My Life

Sport and training are revealed as a path to resilience, where overcoming fatigue and pain transforms into a mature life position.

April 04, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen

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About Psychology

A reflection on the path to psychotherapy: why professional knowledge matters, yet personal qualities, humanistic principles, and the therapist's inner maturity play the decisive role.

March 14, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🕎 Psychotherapy
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Our Shared Mythologeme

A post on the dialectic of Shadow and Light in relationships: how inner contradictions, trust, and shared meaning help us move from personal hell to maturity.

January 16, 2022 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🔂 Patterns
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The Desert of Statuslessness

The Desert of Statuslessness: non-belonging, self-punishment, an overcoming mindset, deconstructing familiar patterns, and living with uncertainty.

October 22, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

Each Is the Maker of Their Own Fortune

Each Is the Maker of Their Own Fortune

A post about overcoming and self-transformation: how through crises, values, and inner discipline a person forges character and destiny.

October 04, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

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Love and Will

Rollo May on love and will: how eros, friendship, and accepting one’s own daemonic side shape mature relationships and the capacity to love.

July 06, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light💙 Ideas about Relationships
Fear of Change

Fear of Change

Fear of change and the anxiety of freedom appear when familiar supports collapse and a person steps into a new life. A post about how defense mechanisms turn into dogmas.

June 27, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

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The Drawn Script

A look at Berne’s script paradox: how the drive for freedom and struggle can become a trap and call for shadow integration.

April 07, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🔂 Patterns
Mindset of Overcoming: Character, Body, and Freedom

Mindset of Overcoming: Character, Body, and Freedom

Overcoming is seen as a stable mindset that shapes character and body, where will and freedom are born from the choice between avoidance and growth.

February 09, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

Orientation Toward Overcoming🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
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In the Midst of Life

An essay on life within crisis: breakdown and recovery as conditions for personal and social growth, when the search for meaning comes to the fore.

February 05, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

Personality Types🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
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Resignation Is a Choice

Resignation, perseverance, and goals: distinguishing withdrawal, a recovery pause, a change of strategy, burnout, and a condition that calls for help.

January 20, 2021 · Anton Kolhonen

Orientation Toward Overcoming🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
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Missing Without a Trace

Market relations as a threat to humanistic conscience: a text about the normalization of humiliation and the loss of the human in the person.

November 21, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

Personality Types⚜️ Humanistic Principles
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Reverence for Life

Reverence for life as a stance: love as a path to knowing oneself and the world, opposed to destruction.

November 06, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

DET Notes⚜️ Humanistic Principles
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Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding the Dark Sides of Our Soul

A psychological analysis of the dark side of personality: why “good” people can be cruel and how integrating the Shadow supports development.

August 06, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
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Ashen Rain

Ashen Rain is a metaphorical dialogue about frustration, need satisfaction, discipline, humanistic psychology, and personal growth.

June 09, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

Personality Types🔂 Patterns
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A Binary View of the World

A philosophical text about the binary nature of the world: light and shadow, order and chaos, and conflict as a source of development for personality, society, and biological processes.

May 22, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

Personality Types🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality✴️ Unusual Style⚛️ Science and Psychology
A surreal composition radiating from a human eye, with fragments of reading, rap, war, family, space, DNA, chess, a galaxy, and the Russian words “Жизнь Боль”.

War and Peace: The Heterogeneity of Cognition

A philosophical and psychological text about war and peace in a person, the heterogeneity of cognition, inner conflict, compassion, and the acceptance of diverse life experience.

April 15, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality✴️ Unusual Style
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The strength to withstand a blow.

Resilience and being there for others: a collection of quotes about the strength to withstand adversity and the importance of human presence during difficult times.

January 11, 2020 · Anton Kolhonen

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Projection.

A post about psychological projection and transference: how to distinguish another person’s reflection from accurate perception and avoid taking other people's interpretations as truth.

November 20, 2019 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🚻 Transference
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Love leads us, and need drives us!

Love and need are seen as two different sources of movement: deficit pushes, and surplus leads. The text shows how their combination forms freedom and personal resilience.

November 19, 2019 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and Light🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
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Faith in Your Own Abilities

Reflection on how believing in oneself and living through defeats shape character and broaden the amplitude of life.

December 10, 2018 · Anton Kolhonen

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Nietzsche and Faith: Stage or Trick?

The text considers religious faith a stage of historical and personal maturation, using Nietzsche’s ideas about freedom, overcoming Christian morality, and choosing one’s own compass of meaning.

August 13, 2018 · Anton Kolhonen

Shadow and LightⓂ️ Morality and Ethics
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Multidisciplinary Approach

Explore how integrating training, wellness practices, and psychology creates a holistic approach to personal and societal health.

November 15, 2017 · Anton Kolhonen

DET Notes⚜️ Humanistic Principles
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A Story About One Man

A motivational parable about the idea that real success comes when you want it as fiercely as you want to live.

May 16, 2016 · Anton Kolhonen

Orientation Toward Overcoming💪 Overcoming⛳️ Effectiveness