Dr.Elham Abouhamzeh

02/21/2024

Freud Museum, London. Photography by Iman Bashari

08/14/2022

10/04/2020

Attachment is the infant’s need to be safe from danger. We are not born securely attached. To the infant, the world is not a safe place.
Solomon, 2011

12/22/2019

Oxytocin—a hormone that facilitates social bonding in animals—can improve empathy in women with borderline personality disorder (BPD), according to a study in Translational Psychiatry. Oxytocin was also associated with an increased desire to become emotionally close to someone.

“BPD patients often report problems establishing and maintaining stable relationships to significant others,” wrote Gregor Domes, Ph.D., of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and colleagues. “Their relationships are characterized by a pervasive fear of abandonment, anxiousness, mistrust, and conflicts, which can culminate in hostile and impulsive behavior.”

09/02/2019

Good enough mother:

1. Comforts her child
2. Apologizes for inappropriate behaviors
3. Takes care of herself
4. Encourages independence in her child
5. Is proud of her children’s accomplishment
6. Builds her children’s self-esteem
7. Responds to her children’s needs
8. Disciplines with logical consequences
9. Never threatens abandonment

07/26/2019

A study published this week in Depression & Anxiety suggests that among patients with cancer who are prescribed antidepressants, those who take the medication may live longer than those who are nonadheren

06/27/2019

That which is unbearable may become acceptable if we can give up certain prejudices and change our point of view.., Jung

07/12/2018

... to old friends, criminals, poker players, and of course, potential partners playing "footsies."

05/19/2018

"Old habits of thinking stick around, often
for an entire lifetime, largely because you create internal reasons to
reinforce and maintain them. These reasons, which I'm calling "excuses,"
can become permanently lodged in your subconscious--they're labels you
have placed on yourself that ultimately become your self-definition." -
Dr. Wayne Dyer