Personality Disorders therapists in Munich, Bavaria BY, Germany DE

The salutogenic concept of Positive Psychotherapy in the age of globalisation, taking into account stories, wisdom and humour. Proverbs, as well as mythological motifs, bring up the values and norms of a culture, they refer to certain patterns of thought that are characteristic of culture and capture them in tangible images. Their substructure can be interpreted psychoanalytically. In Positive Psychotherapy, founded by Prof. Dr Nossrat Peseschkian, a selected proverb is the starting point for exploring the client's particular ways of thinking. Positive Psychotherapy is based on three basic principles: 1st: The principle of hope: Positive Psychotherapy is based on a positive image of man. Each individual can transform his or her possibilities into abilities. 2: The principle of balance: health is a balancing act of various factors: When our body is tired and our senses are overexcited, exhaustion depression often occurs. The feeling of professional overload often leads to depressive pseudo-dementia, disturbances in the contact area cause social isolation, a lack of future planning produces fear of the future. 3rd: The principle of counselling: The counselling of the patient is divided into 5 stages: a.) The therapist observes the behaviour and thinking of the person seeking advice for half an hour, b.) the person seeking advice summarizes the events that have shaped his life in recent years, c.) the therapist discusses possible processing strategies with the person seeking advice, d.) the person seeking advice defines his goals for the next months, e.) the person seeking advice defines his or her further aims. While in the Orient the focus of life is more on the future and contacts, in the West we attach more importance to the physical side and our professional performance. Only if Orient and Occident learn from each other is it possible to keep human life and health in balance in the long run.  

A 'personality disorder' is a dreaded diagnosis for many. Partly due to the stigma it attracts, but also because this umbrella term encompasses a varied set of personal and interpersonal difficulties that are persistent (are not confined in set period of a person's life), problematic and pervasive (affect more than one area of life). I have an extensive experience working with individuals who either meet criteria for a personality disorder to experience some personality disorder traits. If you think this might be the case for you and would like to explore whether psychotherapy might be right for you, please get in touch.  

Personality disorders are intertwined with the very structure of personality, and are not tracked as well subjectively as some other conditions. Such as, for example, depression, relationship problems or career issues. This causes the impossibility, even, to determine that something is wrong. A person may have problems with relationships with others, problems at work, constant background stress. But the person may not even realize that something is wrong. The most frequent clients of psychotherapy are people with borderline personality disorder. Because, tendencies to acute emotional states, self-harm behavior, depression are more associated with the needs for help from mental health professionals. Unfortunately, people with avoidant personality disorder, paranoid, narcissistic, antisocial and others do not become clients of psychotherapy so often. Each category has its own reason. For example, people with paranoid personality disorder may have beliefs that psychological health is an area of manipulation and deception. People with schizoid personality disorder may not want to enter into contact with another paradigm that may differ radically from their own. And people with narcissistic personality disorder (although they are more likely than others to seek help; because it can show them as developed and conscious personalities) may not want to admit their "wrongness" and vulnerability. Although psychotherapy for personality disorders works very well for people with borderline personality disorder, people with other types of personality disorders, unfortunately, do not know that thanks to therapy they can significantly improve the quality of their life. I have been working in schema therapy for several years - a CBT approach of the third wave. This approach was specially developed for the therapy of people with personality disorders. And showed its effectiveness with such a disorder as antisocial personality disorder. Which used to be considered untreatable. When you turn to a therapist for personality disorder therapy, please be prepared for the fact that this is a very long process of work. It can take from 1 to 3 years of work. Do not be afraid to turn to therapy if you have a personality disorder. In schema therapy for personality disorders, a very gentle, and at the same time, structured and understandable process of work is used.