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Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions
Click through the highlighted term to read more about a particular subject .
- 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'.
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