Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

Facticity

This is a concept advanced by Martin Heidegger to speak about natural human limits affecting our capacity to make absolute choices about our existence.

Fairy Tale

Fairy tales have been described as vehicles for the human psyche, lending themselves more to universality than depicting any one culture or social attitude. Where fables, folktales, and myths tend to have a lesson to be taught (very entrenched in social values and cultural influence), fairy tales represent the wishes, fears, hopes, and dreams of humans across cultures.

Family Issues

Family issues refers to the truth that no set of persons in a family can attain complete connection, simply because there are always shortcomings in personal development.

Feeling

The word' feeling' is one of the most difficult words within psychotherapy because it has so many meanings.

Fees

All the members of the site are trained professional psychotherapists in private practice. They charge fees for the work they perform, after the first free consultation.

Please note that psychotherapy is not covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).

Ferenczi, Sandor Ferenczi

One of Freud's earliest collaborators and friends, a brilliant practitioner and proponent of mutual analysis.

Focusing

Focusing is a process developed by Eugene Gendlin out of the University of Chicago in the 1960s, as well as the title of a book written by him.

Formative Psychology

Formative Psychology is a process of educating the Self through becoming aware of and engaging the body’s reactive experience.

Freedom

The freedom to act, think, feel and be are variously understood within the psychotherapeutic traditions current today.

Freud, Sigmund Freud

The founder of the psychoanalytic approach to psychodynamic therapy, Sigmund Freud was probably the greatest contributor to the experience of being human, in the twentieth century.

Fursorge

By way of contrast with Sorge, Martin Heidegger's word for the kind of care that is not supportive of the full human experience is called Fursorge.