Psychotherapy and Psychology

Whoever fails to know himself and his fellow-man,
lacks everything !

Psychotherapy could be seen as the practical executive part of psychology. In essence, a psychotherapist or psychologist is a person, who helps another human being, to clarify his world of thought and emotion. Mental coach, counsellor, someone who gives insight, comforter, mental guide and occasionally: war comrade, are definitely terms you can attach to this function.

But there are many therapeutic directions, as for that it looks a little like the diversity of streams within the religious world. To mention a few psychotherapeutic schools: the psychoanalytic (among which the classical psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud), the behavioristic (among which the behavior therapy), the cognitive (among which the cognitiv therapy of Aaron Beck), the humanistic (among which the client-centered therapy of Carl Rogers), the rational- emotive therapie (RET of Albert Ellis), etc. Within the various streams there are again many therapeutic forms and variations to be distinguished.

Many therapists work from one specific school. Yet there are a great number, who work eclectic. In other words, now they work from this school, then they work from another, depending on the client or the problems. Or they work integratively, that means that they have joined together the good aspects of several schools and use them in their therapy sessions.
We belong anyway to the latter group, but in addition we have added the necessary extra elements. These extra elements you can find again, for a part, in the subjects, to which are referred in our index. But the other part you won't find again (yet), for we are still founding our vision. Although we do use it in our form of therapy and most people experience this vision to be very illuminating and insight-providing. A quotation of a thirty year old ex-client for that matter: “It's a pity you don’t learn this sort of psychological insight at schools of secondary and higher education, it would save people a huge amount of pain and suffering “.

As you will understand, what we consider as good and/or scientific, can be experienced by someone else as nonsense or pure fabrications. In view of this site, that reflects our way of thinking and course of action, you can determine for yourself if you find this and that logical and appliable to your perception of environment. And if you don’t find it logical, you will have to continuing searching.

If it appeals to you and you want more information, or you or someone close to you needs therapeutic help, you can contact us at the telephone number and e-mail address, which you can find at the bottom of this page.

Psychology stands for knowledge of the human mind and the human action. Explaining human psyche and behaviour seems not so difficult. Anybody who puts in a little effort can find thousands of answers in the various libraries. But that is exactly the problem. Like a professor (prof.dr P. Vroon ) once wrote: "The discipline psychology looks like an exploded confetti factory". And professor J. van Essen wrote in 1965, that the whole has become "indescribably extensive". The science psychology has therefore been shattered into thousands of pieces, and now try as a layman to make it one whole again, if even the experts cannot do it and/or are contradicting eachother.

Now many people think, that the science psychology is a new science. As for the universities, it naturally is a fairly new discipline. But anyone who delves a bit, discovers that it is probably the most ancient mental occupation that fascinated mankind. Questions like: ‘Where do I come from ? Where do I go to ?‘ and ‘What am I doing here ?‘ were and are directly followed by questions like: ‘Why am I the way I am ? And why are other people the way they are ?‘

The most important matters, in the area of the human psyche and his actions, are therefore already known for thousands and thousands of years! Through the centuries a lot of these facts have been fallen into the background however, due to various causes and only the past hundred years they have been rediscovered. That the most important psychological findings of the last century have been announced with loud scientific drumroll as: ‘newly discovered’, says something about the extent to which our culture has gone astray and about the memory of humans. Like Vroon already wrote once: “Our biggest problem is, that we barely have a memory“.

In connoisseurs, who do have a fairly good memory in this area, all this drumoll merely evokes a gentle smile, for they know that these ‘new’ psychological discoveries (theories and/or facts) have been known for a long time and they can prove this. At the most modern physics or medical science confirm something, that theoretically was known for a long time. Like, for example, the fact, that a depression disturbs the chemical balance in your brain, but when the depression is canceled out, everything functions normally again. They already knew this a few thousand years back ! The fact that it is now confirmed scientifically, is interesting, but theoretically this was known for a long time !

Still many people have questions and disturbing 'open pieces', to which the mainstream psychology does not have an sufficient answer (yet). Or it gives answers which do people little or no good and which offer no solution. Issues like blind aggression, suicide, borderline, schizofrenia, etc., are subjects that they do not have conclusive answers to yet, let alone that they know how to spot or stop them in advance! And nevertheless we have to find those answers. Then psychological problems threaten to become the number one disease and that does not only go for the Netherlands. So we urgently need insight and solutions.

Changes of behaviour and more important, a change of culture, are consequently the challenges which both the social sciences and the society are facing. That calls for new frames of reference and if possible, frames of reference, which can be founded scientifically. A great part of these psychological frames are already known and summarily you find our interpretation in the subjects that are treated in this site (see index). These psychological frames/ truths have therefore not been discovered by us, at the most they are mixed and joined together by us.

In any case it gives answers, which most people find logical and rational and which are of use to them. Pedantic ? Read the other subjects and judge for yourself.

For more information or an exploratory interview, we refer to our adress (indexpage).

Website last changend on the 1^st January 2003