Psychotherapy employs a vast vocabulary of technical terms in order to describe its methods and procedures. People who come into psychotherapy sometimes find these strange terms to be unnecessarily confusing.
Tele-groups are weekly group meetings linked telephonically through a conference call service. Groups generally have a focus or topic around which the group seeks to explore and understand, and are guided by a professional therapist. The group functions much like a therapeutic group except that participants are not in the same physical space. This requires a clear understanding of protocol for participation, not unlike any in-person group.
Temperament
Temperament refers to a collection of general behaviours that are psychologically grounded. It is an offshoot of the work on psychological type.
TFM
TFM stands for Therapeutic Family Mediator, a certificate granted by the University of Toronto.
Martin Heidegger felt that much of our human freedom is constrained by the opinions of others.
In a remarkable section of his major work, Being and Time, Heidegger examined the many ways in which we give up our own authenticity because of the pressure of the mass expectations of others, even when we do not have any direct personal relationship with them.
A theory of the internal psychic process theradrama was developed at Therafields, a psychotherapeutic community that flourished in Toronto circa 1970-1980.
In terms of ordinary parlance, thinking has to do with reasoning or cogitating in one’s head. The great psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and depth psychologist Carl Jung used the word ‘thinking’ in a very specific sense.
Specific breathing techniques that are used to help clients reach different states of mind depending on the specific situation, i.e. release of anxiety, heightened awareness of physical and or emotional states, self compassion etc.