Remember those moments in school when you knew the answer but didn’t raise your hand? Or that business meeting where you disagreed with a colleague but didn’t have the courage to speak up in front of your boss? Then there’s always that colleague who always has something to say, whether…
Emigration is usually understood as a geographical act: leaving one country, one language, one social system, and entering another. In political and sociological discourse, it is framed through numbers, borders, laws, and economic necessity. Yet this external movement often conceals a deeper psychological process — one that precedes, accompanies, and…
The Hug That Changed Everything When we hugged, I knew something was different.He held me kindly, the way one person hugs another, but not the way a grandfather hugs his grandson. That single gesture told me more than any diagnosis ever could. I was on my first year of med…
We live in a period that feels unpredictable, where the path forward is often shrouded in fog. Events around us may seem beyond our control, leaving many feeling uncertain about the future. Winning and losing, successes and setbacks, take on different meanings depending on the context. A comeback after a…
When we think about professions that shape a person’s identity, medicine is always near the top. People often compare it to a calling, almost like priesthood, a path of service that demands sacrifice. But behind the prestige and the white coats, there’s another side we rarely talk about. From the…
A Concept That Surprised Me When I first heard the term intersubjectivity, I thought it was just another abstract concept, one more idea competing for a place in psychotherapy textbooks. But as I explored it further, I began to see its depth. Intersubjectivity is not just theory. It is an…