by Mateusz Banaszkiewicz | Dec 20, 2022 | Wellbeing
It is hard to convince anyone that death is an experience that makes a beneficial contribution to our lives. This is a topic often overlooked in both psychotherapeutic work and in medical practice. However, caring for the elderly, the ill or the dying is an area...
by Mateusz Banaszkiewicz | Dec 20, 2022 | Wellbeing
“You slip in and out of my room, give me medication and check my blood pressure. Is it because I’m a nurse or just a human being, I can sense that you’re scared? And your fear increases my fear. Why are you scared? After all, I’m the one who’s dying!”[1]. [1] E....
by Mateusz Banaszkiewicz | May 18, 2022 | Komunikacja
Current evidence indicates that chronic loneliness is harmful to both mental and physical health. Researchers Knowles, Lucas, Baumeister and Gardner set out to test how much truth there is in the stereotype that lonely people have poor social skills. Lonely...
by Mateusz Banaszkiewicz | Mar 7, 2021 | Komunikacja
The illustrations (in Polish) show two scenes. In the first, a mother calls her daughter and says: “Why don’t you ever call me?” In the second, a stranger at the gym says to a woman: “Take your time, we’ve got all day.” The thing about aggression is that it is easy to...
by Mateusz Banaszkiewicz | Aug 24, 2020 | Komunikacja
Communication is a process that allows us to meet many different needs, including psychological ones. Even though we practise communicating with others all our lives, most of us still run into all sorts of difficulties. For example, research by Marr and Cable (2014)...