What is the psychodynamic theory's perspective on positive psychology?
Psychotherapy, including cognitive therapy, is basically remedial.
It treats problems that already exist rather than attempting to prevent problems that haven't happened yet.
As everyone knows, though, prevention is better than cure. One of the reasons why Stoicism appeals so much to psychotherapists is that it's mainly a preventative rather than a remedial approach. Researchers today would describe that as "emotional resilience" building, a method of improving our psychological wellbeing so that we're less likely to develop emotional problems when faced with setbacks in the future. Cognitive therapy was inspired by Stoicism but Stoicism offers a more general-purpose preventative set of skills whereas cognitive therapy is more time-limited and problem-focused. It treats a specific problem for a few weeks or months and then it's basically over.
Stoicism requires a permanent change to our philosophy of life, though.
There are different ways of understanding psychological "generalization", the way psychological skills or improvements become so broad that they help us in a wide range of situations, including ones we don't even anticipate, leading to the Holy Grail of "emotional resilience". First of all, if we're able to change our deepest beliefs and values we can anticipate that will help us cope in a very broad sense. That was particularly the focus of Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), the earliest form of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT).
Ellis wanted to get right to people's underlying beliefs, which he sometimes called their philosophy of life, and challenge that in such a way as to replace unhealthy and irrational assumptions with healthy and rational ones.
The closer you get to changing your fundamental attitudes the more generalized the change is likely to be and the more resilient you’re likely to become.
However, another, more behavioural, strategy involves rehearsing better ways of coping in response to a wide range of specific challenging situations.
That would typically be described as a form of "exposure" therapy, i.e., exposure to a distressing situation in order to change the way you respond. We can do that in reality, using videos or pictures, or in imagination – all these methods are known to be effective although real-world exposure is the most reliable approach, of course.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036620305150
This article was published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, which I don't have institutional access to. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could supply a PDF! I'm using it for a literature review.
1.Guts from Berserk
2.Shinji Ikari from Evangelion
3.Luffy from One piece
4.Not a protagonist,but Future Trunks from Dragonball
5.Eren Yeager/ Jaegar from AOT
Which one of these Anime protagonists is the mentally toughest?
You can also rank them, if you like
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My new Medium article on "Stoicism and Psychological Resilience", including initial findings from our research data on Stoic Mindfulness and Resilience Training (SMRT).
In the past few years, I've been trying to fully conceptualize psychological resilience. I haven't found a coherent definition yet, but here's a small expressive write-up of what this journey of searching for its meaning has been like for me: https://medium.com/@rose.mejia1998/the-felt-sense-of-psychological-resilience-51d78c8774ec?sk=13d81afa75a2c98f720a9e6087ca2854
I hope some of you resonate :)
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