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In order to recover from many kinds of mental distress, there's really no alternative but to get acquainted with psychotherapy.
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Though often dense and complicated, the central ideas of psychotherapy can be summarised as follows.
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Every human is in part neurotic.
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A neurosis is any pattern of thinking or behaviour that blocks the full flowering of our personalities and potential.
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We may be neurotic in love or at work, in our friendships or in our attitudes to creativity or politics.
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It should be part of every evolved human's mission to seek to understand and unpick the neurotic elements of their own personalities.
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The inquiry and how are you neurotic should not be taken as an insult,
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rather a sensible and kindly request for more information on on our particular share of humanity's warps.
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The origins of most of our neuroses lie in our childhoods, before we were old enough to deploy adult mechanisms to process events.
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What causes neuroses are incomprehensible, cruel and intolerable frustrations and pains that we can collectively refer to as traumas.
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A trauma may be as immediately shocking as a rape, or as seemingly innocuous as years of continuous petty criticism or emotional neglect.
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Something qualifies as a trauma because of an unmasterable dimension.
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The child is not able to make sense of the agony it faces, and so suffers a grievous blow to its sense of self and command of trust,
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intelligence and love.
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Every parental inadequacy tends to give rise to a neurosis.
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Where there is an over-controlling parent, there will be a child with problems around autonomy.
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Where there is a belittling parent, there will be a child with difficulties of confidence and self-esteem.
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Where there is a sexual rivalry or seductiveness, there will be issues of guilt or shame.
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Every character defect on the side of the parent necessarily imposes a toll on a child.
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There is no such thing as an un-neurotic parent.
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Rather than deny that they could have done anything wrong, all parents must simply put up their hands gracefully,
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perhaps humorously too, and then assist their child in figuring out the particular difficulties they will have bequeathed to them.
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Trauma leads to repression, which over time inspires the formation of neurotic symptoms.
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Neuroses that have not been understood continue into perpetuity.
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Time never weakens them.
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Healing comes through self-awareness.
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To improve, we need to dynamite the concrete of repression and recover contact with the original trauma.
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And in order to do that, we need to accept, before anything else, that doing so would be a good idea.
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We have to agree that self-knowledge will be what can save us.
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It won't be enough to know the past.
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We will need to feel it too.
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We may have a workable sense of the central details of our childhoods, but an intellectual grasp won't be enough.
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We need to viscerally re-experience rather than merely intellectually know the past so as to free ourselves from its hold.
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Our neuroses will weaken and dissolve once the traumas that fire them are finally known, and even more importantly, felt.
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That is the challenge and the promise of psychotherapy.
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The School of Life offers online psychotherapy to people all around the world.
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Our therapists are highly trained and accredited, and are a vital source of kindness, solace and wisdom for life's most difficult moments.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “7 Secrets of Therapy”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: neurotic, trauma, parent, neuroses, psychotherapy. Deze video bevat 38 zinnen en 573 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:13. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 136 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 77% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| neurotic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /n(j)ʊəˈɹɒtɪk/ | neurotisch |
| psychotherapy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/ | psychotherapie |
| weaken werkwoord | /ˈwikən/ | verzwakken |
| repression zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹəˈpɹɛʃən/ | repressie, onderdrukking |
| belittle werkwoord | /bɪˈlɪt.əl/ | kleineren, afkraken |
| bequeath werkwoord | /bɪˈkwiːθ/ | nalaten, overdragen |
| dissolve werkwoord | /dɪˈzɑlv/ | ontbinden, oplossen |
| grievous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɡɹiː.vəs/ | pijnlijk |
| inadequacy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪˈnædɪkwəsi/ | ontoereikendheid |
| incomprehensible bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/ | onbegrijpelijk |
| innocuous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈnɑkjuəs/ | onschadelijk, onschuldig |
| solace zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɑ.lɪs/ | troost, soelaas |
| dynamite zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/ | dynamiet |
| agony zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/ | ondraaglijke pijn |
| warp zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɔːp/ | vervorming |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
Uitspraak om op te letten
- De “th”-klanken: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, bequeath /bɪˈkwiːθ/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: repression /ɹəˈpɹɛʃən/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, humorously /ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/, inadequacy /ɪˈnædɪkwəsi/, incomprehensible /ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/, intolerable /ɪnˈtɑləɹəbl̩/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: dissolve /dɪˈzɑlv/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: inadequacy /ɪˈnædɪkwəsi/, agony /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/, grasp /ɡɹæsp/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gracefully /ˈɡɹeɪsfəli/, grievous /ˈɡɹiː.vəs/, agony /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/, neglect /nɪˈɡlɛkt/, grasp /ɡɹæsp/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als neurotic, psychotherapy, weaken.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.