Dr Mina Bakhterari Haftlangi

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🧠Jacques Lacan and the Modern Mind:

Among major psychoanalytic thinkers, Jacques Lacan is often considered one of the most intellectually complex.…
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🧠Donald Winnicott and the Development of the Authentic Self

Donald Winnicott remains one of the most influential figures in contemporary relational psychotherapy, not because…
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🧠Understanding Melanie Klein: Early Relationships, Anxiety, and the Inner World

Melanie Klein was one of the most influential figures in psychoanalytic psychology and one of the…
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🧠Erik Erikson and the Emotional Stages We Continue Carrying Through Life

Erik Erikson believed something that still feels deeply true in clinical work today: people do…
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🧠Karen Horney and the Psychological Search for Safety

Karen Horney is one of the theorists who expanded psychoanalytic thought beyond classical Freudian ideas, and…
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🧠Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology: A Clinical and Integrative Perspective

Introduction Alfred Adler (1870–1937) developed a holistic, goal-oriented framework for understanding human behaviour and called…
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🧠 Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology: A Depth-Oriented Model of the Human Psyche

A Different Starting Point While classical psychoanalysis (e.g., Sigmund Freud) conceptualised the mind primarily…
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🧠Founders of scientific psychology

🧠 Wilhelm Wundt (Experimental Introspection) Wilhelm Wundt (1879) is a pioneer of scientific psychology,…
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🧠 Early & Philosophical Pioneers of Psychology

🏛️ Plato: Plato is the first name that is known for his proposed that knowledge…
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🧠Defence Mechanisms are the methods the mind uses to protect itself

Introduction In clinical practice, one of the most consistent observations is that individuals rarely respond…
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🧠Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

Introduction Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, proposed that unconscious processes largely influence human behaviour. According…
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🧠How to redefine the Cycle of Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour

One of the most common patterns observed in therapy is the repetition of the same…
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