Month: September 2020

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how feelings can become opposite – Reversal” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how feelings can become opposite – Reversal Reversal is an immature defense mechanism described already by Freud. It includes transforming something into its opposite….

This post “Increase your self-esteem by stopping harming yourself” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by stopping harming yourself: Turning against the self implies redirecting feelings towards oneself that were originally directed towards someone else. It is an immature defense mechanism about punishing or harming…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding others impact on you – projective identification) continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding others impact on you: Projective identification is an immature defense mechanism. It is when one person’s feelings or anxiety are transferred into another…