Conscious Ambivalence

Unconscious Ambivalence About Therapy - Psychology Today

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy will not help the patient remain unconscious of their ambivalence; it will make it conscious.

Conscious Ambivalence - Hili Razinsky - PhilPapers

Although ambivalence in a strict sense, according to which a person holds opposed attitudes, and holds them as opposed, is an ordinary and widespread ...

Conscious Ambivalence | Human Studies

Conscious ambivalence is a form of ambivalence in consciousness. I coin this term to refer more broadly to ambivalence as manifested in a state ...

Living With Ambivalence About People You Love - Psychology Today

... anxiety and depression would mean losing her mother, father, and boyfriend. Tina's conscious ambivalence about psychotherapy reflected her ...

Ambivalence - Wikipedia

Psychologically uncomfortable ambivalence, also known as cognitive dissonance, can lead to avoidance, procrastination, or to deliberate attempts to resolve the ...

Ambivalence can prevent healthy change. Here's how to deal with it.

Ambivalence, which essentially means having conflicting feelings about something, makes many people uncomfortable. But it is a normal part of change, experts ...

Ambivalence: Conflicted feelings cause discomfort and creativity.

Ambivalence is not the same as indifference, with which it is often confused. Someone in an ambivalent state of mind is experiencing an excess ...

Relational Ambivalence: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Part I)

Ambivalence is an emotional/cognitive/behavioral oscillation between “I'm in and I want this,” and “I'm out and I don't want this.” It's an ...

On Chronic Ambivalence and the Torments of Uncertainty

As a couples therapist, my mind gravitates to pondering the implications (and manifestations) of chronic ambivalence in the arena of ...

Is Ambivalence a Hidden Factor in Much of Human Misery?

Ambivalence constitutes an excess of conflicting thoughts. It's a tortured state of mind that involves failing to reach a coherent point of view ...

Embracing the Power of Ambivalence - Harvard Business Review

Emotional ambivalence is the simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions about something. It's what we think of as being “torn ...

Ambivalence: Creative Energy That Leads to Awakening

This is the single most provocative article I've read in The Mindful Word. There's a certain synchronicity in my own life, coming upon it the ...

Use Your Ambivalence to Make More Ethical Decisions

Being conscious of ambivalence helps decision makers suspend initial judgments, deflect biases, and integrate conflicting material.

I Want To Change….I Think!? A Brief Exploration of Ambivalence

Ambivalence can show up at any stage on your journey to change, at any which time you might not even be aware.

'Ambivalence is normal human nature' | BPS

Talk us through your metaphor of ambivalence as an inner committee. We talk to ourselves when faced with choice or change. It's a more conscious ...

[Structuralistic and meta-psychological approaches to ambivalence ...

... ambivalent. When one becomes conscious of a thing, the potential exists to divide one's intentionality between "good and bad", and the thing thus appears as ...

The fence is uncomfortable, but it affords the best view | Psyche Ideas

Apart from making you think more, ambivalence can also make you think better. It forces us to keep in mind multiple opposing thoughts, ideas and ...

Ambivalence as a Religious Virtue — Exponent II Blog

... conscious choice that enriches and enlivens a person's spirituality and community. She argues that “ambivalence emerges much more as a virtue to be ...

Ambivalence: Is it a symptom of schizophrenia? - MedicalNewsToday

Ambivalence is a state of mind involving mixed feelings or thoughts about a person, thing, or situation. These mixed feelings or thoughts can ...

Ambivalence: How to Navigate Complex Emotions - The Thirlby

So: ambivalence, by definition, is possessing two potentially contradictory feelings about a single thing. Many among us would prefer the ...