This week we start with a chat about mental health...

What is your mental health? We start with a discussion on the definition of mental health - and what is may mean to be mentally well. 

We take a look at a discussion on the (6:15) origins of talking therapy, with a discussion on Sigmund Freud and (09:50) Carl Yung's following work on the collective unconscious, (10:44) the Hierarchy of Needs and self-actualization.

Carl Roger's (16:15) would pick up on the concept of self-actualization is his person-centred approach, with an explanation of Roger's (17:45) "fully-functioning person."

Person-centred therapy relies on (22:30) three core conditions - congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy.

Mental health (25:15) may be about becoming a "fully functioning person" - with explanations by Jordan Peterson and how his work is based upon the works of Rogers and Freud, exploring the rules within his books, (27:00) "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" and (29:15) "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules of Life."

We end on comparing the rules to (30:45) Carl Roger's fully functioning person - and some personal stories on how Jordan Peterson's work has helped me find some meaning in some of the suffering we experience in life - and (35:00) asking how we can work towards being a "self-actualised person."


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