There are numerous secrets that psychotherapists learn over time about certain commonly occurring symptoms, situations, or patterns of experience and human behavior and what can help to mitigate or ...

The “repetition compulsion” is a basic concept in all psychotherapies. The compulsion to repeat is particularly interesting because what is repeated is not pleasurable. On the contrary, it is usually ...

Freud coined the term “repetition compulsion” to describe the puzzling phenomenon where an abuse victim repeatedly puts themselves in situations that replicate the distress they experienced in an ...