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Once, in a discussion, while explaining the characteristics of violence in politics and the family, I pointed out the forms of relationship in which specific actions of an aggressive nature are not violent. For example, when we use the mysterious ‘touching the butt’ when ‘talking’ to our preschool children. I was countered with a rather ...

Let’s start with a thinking process and, consequently, a behaviour strategy, which we’ll refer to conventionally as “kindness”. We may have many effective strategies based on envy, hatred, anxiety, aggression, and variously configured and reproduced affects – these are all very familiar. Not only that, but we very much even intensely struggle with all this ...

“The servant shakes. The slave laughs. The executioner sharpens his axe. The tyrant cuts up the capon. The winter moon is shining.” I. Brodsky Goodness is hardly the most tragic manipulation of people; the nature of the displacement of meaning in manipulation. Have you ever been in a situation of interacting with someone who “radiates” ...

Psychotherapy (as part of psychological care), in the context of modern social transformations, has a vital and meaningful function – people’s mental health preservation and maintenance. Traditionally, mental imbalances, stress and critical situations, which accompany a person practically all their lives, are dealt with by medication. In most cases, medication (tranquillizers, antidepressants, etc.) is a ...

The intensity of changes in the system of social relations irreversibly points to the necessity to explain and understand such an important phenomenon as corruption. After all, a descriptive attitude towards corruption and its constant “denunciation” is not efficient – corruption is insuperable, which points to the underlying context of its functioning. We can assume ...

“…an addiction that cannot be controlled is dangerous.” (Karin Alvtegen) Possessing a wide range of manifestations, from the chemical to the social, addiction is an integral part of modern humanity. Even a wide enough range of social-psychological, pedagogical and corrective services offered on the addiction help market does not provide the desired result – deliverance ...