The False Self vs. The True Self — Winnicott
The Theory That Explains Why So Many People Feel Like They Are Living Someone Else's Life — Dr. Akash Parihar | MD Psychiatry | Asha Wellness Sanctuary Hospital, Kota 📰 The Psychiatric Blueprint | Psychology & Identity Series Begin With a Recognition You are very good at being the person the situation requires. Warm when warmth is expected. Competent when competence is demanded. Agreeable when agreement keeps the peace. Calm when showing anything else would complicate things. You do this well. Possibly very well. Possibly so well that people who know you — or think they know you — would be surprised to learn how different the inside is from the outside they have learned to trust. You have a persistent, private sense that the person others know is not quite you. Not lying, exactly. Not performing, exactly. But not entirely real, either. Somewhere underneath the competence, the agreeableness, the seamless social navigation — There is something ...