false self

false self

Alternative psychology
A term defined in the context of Swami Ajaya’s inner self-healing process as a false image that a person portrays to the world, which is his or her response to the constellation of ills and poor fortunes suffered in the course of life.
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We have this sort of false self we portray over the internet.
Agony of moving on
She addresses the therapeutic alliance, counter-transference, being playful, defense mechanisms, personality disorders, Self Psychology, the false self, working with couples, the developmental perspective, assessing the patient, and self-supervision and note-taking.
The Mature Psychotherapist: Beyond Training and Ideology
In contrast, according to Winnicott, the false self is a defensive facade, which consequently lead individuals to have lack of spontaneity.
EARLY CHILDHOOD AND DEVELOPMENT OF A DIFFICULT SENSE OF SELF: CAN IT HINDER GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS?
From the perspective of the true self, the ego, as a set of ideas about the survival through acceptance/rejection/withdrawal, lacks real basis and is absolutely irrelevant (several examples are presented in Table 1 of different survival strategies, respectively combinations of the real unaware self and combinations of the false self that appears by way of compensation).
The premise of leadership: the true self
that drives this false self identity is fear of abandonment.
Minding the mind/body connection in moving beyond self-sabotage and resistance to change
The false self in turn may perpetuate the experience of ontological insecurity, which when taken to its extreme may reach psychotic experience.
Open dialogue: an applied Laingian practice
What holds us back in life is our lack of integration, and the ongoing expressions of our false self.
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Winnicott (1990), in his psychoanalytic theories, developed the false self concept to represent an identity that will be accepted for the own subject and for Others, mediated by the culture that surrounds it.
The controversies of self--from (info) ethics to cyber terror/Controversias do eu--da (info)etica ao terror cibernetico
He has received validation of his self-created false self.
The cunning, powerful addiction that is validation: patients' arrogance is used to cover up feelings of unworthiness
It is their conceit that promoting a false self will advance their separate purposes--a conceit that is older than the sixteenth century and still relevant in our Instagram age.
Elif Shafak. The Architect's Apprentice
He addresses the school context and the role of the counselor, the counseling process, school rules, and skills, then describes key therapeutic aims: helping people learn to speak about rather than enact their anxieties, develop a capacity to tolerate ambivalence, become less reliant on a false self to protect the true self, develop a sense of personal worth or self-esteem, and bear the anxieties of not knowing why bad things happen.
School counsellors working with young people and staff; a whole-school approach
They need conversion from the false self to the true self.
Treasure in the Field: Salvation in the Bible and in Our Lives

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