Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

MA

MA stands for Master of Arts, a university post-graduate degree.

Malaise

A nagging sense that life is quite grey, thwarted and unfulfilling due to vague feelings of discontent.

Marriage

The goal of marriage therapy is to remove the impediments to a loving, mutually satisfying life together. Marriage is based on many expectations and treated as a particularly important union in our society and when there is trouble in a marriage many family members are affected as well as the husband and wife.

MBTI/Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an inventory that attempts to help users to determine and explore their psychological type.

MDiv

MDiv stands for Masters in Divinity, a university post-graduate degree.

MEd

MEd stands for Masters in Education, a university post-graduate degree.

Meditation

Meditation is a spiritual practice and emotional-intellectual discipline thousands of years old.

Melanie Klein, Klein

Melanie Klein is the founder of the ‘object-relation’ school of psychoanalysis. worked with young children using toys and games. This led her to theorize how humans develop a sense of who they are.

Mid-Life Crisis

Though change in life is constant and inevitable it sometimes reaches crisis proportions.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness or being mindful is being aware of your present moment in a non judgmental way, with acceptance.

Mindfulness-Based CBT

This approach to depression aims to reduce relapse and recurrence for those who are vulnerable to episodes of depression.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MCBT) is a sophisticated integration of skills developed using mindfulness training and principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).

Money

Money is a basic therapeutic issue. How we deal with money influences both our material well-being and our capacity to relate successfully to and with others.

Financial and money issues play a greater role in relationship break-down than sex. Most couples admit that fighting is usually about money and spending problems.

Mood

The ‘weather of the soul’, mood is derived for the German word ‘Mut’, for weather. The analysis is particularly important within Daseinanalysis since mood combines somatic, psychic and ontological issues.

Mood Disorders

The most common mood disorders are depression and bi-polarity.

MSW

MSW stands for Master's of Social Work, a graduate university degree.

MTC

MTC stands for Masters in therapeutic Counselling, a university-level degree granted through the United Nation’s World Health Organization.

Mutual Analysis

An innovation of Sandor Ferenczi, mutual analysis was intended to level the psychic playing field between analyst and 'patient'.