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I am Vaishali Mehta, a 28 year old housewife. My husband Jaimin is a cotton merchant. I feel from his general behaviour in the house and with the family members that he is not normal. He refuses to accept that…

I am Neha Patel, a 24 year old housewife. My husband and I have been having a lot of conflicts around my decision making capacity. He is in insurance sales and always accuses me of not being methodical and organized…

I am Vidya Sathware, a 21 year old student of management. I am very interested in creative thinking processes. I find that my studies do not offer me much in the form of creativity. I would like to find out…

I am Gauri Rampal, a student of the 12th class. I am facing the board exams and I am unable to remember what I have studied. This is the most important year of my academic career. Please give a few…

Please give some tips for memory improvement. If one works at it, an incredible amount of information can be retained in memory. Experts in any fields have excellent memories for material in their areas of proficiency. The more one already…

This is the last in the series of outlining the defense mechanisms that a person may use in day to day activities and that also define his problems. Displacement is shifting of an emotion from one idea or object to…

Last week we looked at the mature defense mechanisms that allow a person to live at the optimum adaptation of life. However, there are many defenses that reflect a person’s pathology. Denial is avoiding the awareness of some painful aspect…

Stress is ubiquitous in our lives. We counter the stressors in our life through defense mechanisms. For a high adaptive level of life, there should be an optimal handling of stressors through mature defense mechanisms. These defenses usually maximize gratification…

I am Sushi Parikh, a 23 year old MBA student. Every night when I am sleeping, a lot of dreams come into my mind. They range from a variety of topics relating to my studies, my fantasies of a good…

I am Jignesh Mehta, a 42 year old businessman. My son, Sunay, 14 years old was a very quiet and well adjusted child till about 6-9 months back. Since then he has started asking me a lot of questions. I…