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Over the weekend I've spent some time in a friend's summer house, splurging cocktails on the pool side, taking some shots of the lagoonish backyard, contemplating about all my terrible misfortunes that

Isn't green the most beautiful color? Chlorophyll, oxygen, life. You are programmed to love it. I'll take you to the village Trema, about 50 km north from Zagreb. Beauty of continental Croatia can often

Right in the middle of nowhere, around 100 km eastern from Zagreb, you can stumble upon one of the great modernistic monuments of former Yugoslavia, made to honor the victims of World War II. The village

Friday papers session. I've presented the game with it's rules just few weeks ago. Fun and laughs are guaranteed, all it requires is an open mind and will to share your drawing skills. A way to share a

Bonjour Stemians! I wrote about the sub zero shock in Zagreb few days ago and the way people in Croatia usually react about any chock in general. By nagging and self victimizing, more than often refusing

Any era has it's specific psychic deviances and problems. For example, in Freudian era hysterical symptoms were much more recognized than these days. Our era, on the other hand, is marked by bipolar disorder,

Hello dear Steemians! Winter came late this year and somehow, once again, like every year so far, we stood shock frozen. As we cried for the lack of ice and snow during January and December, looks like

Hello my dear Steemians! It has been a while since my last movie analysis due to my offline reality, but here it is - Melancholia. Anyone who's into movies should be familiar with the work of Lars Von

Friday. You finally get to break the routine. Wanna try something minimal and light, yet deep and intense? Your setting is basically any given casual lounge party. Drinking can bring an extra dimension

I'll turn it to the sweeter end this time. Chocolate was on the menu of our today's group film-therapy session. I didn't wanna complain. I rarely say no to chocolate. It's bitter in its core, anyway. I've

What is so magnetic in chaos, destruction and violence? Why are sensationalist titles of crime chronicles the one that sells the best? Are we all vampires? A vampires on a couch, sucking the blood from

In order to get the correct psychiatric diagnosis psychoanalysis can't be of any help in some cases. Many patients don't have the capacity for psychoanalysis cause the presence of morphological, organic

Do you know what's the origin of the term HYSTERIA? Well, If you didn't go to medical school or you've never attended any lessons of (ancient) Greek or Latin, I guess you wouldn't have a clue. Term: hyster

Film can be used as a strong psychoanalytical tool in psychotherapy, both individual and group. Similar to dreams. A direct portal to the unconscious realm of the psyche and a fertile soil to our unconscious

Hello again to all my fellow Stemians! Now here's a character that beautifully depicts one of the most exploited diagnosis in psychiatry. Unlike the last character I wrote about (Batman) this one is clearly

As cryptosphere continues to proliferate, my inner child poped out and urged for a hero I was so blindly amazed back in my early days. How can I outflank this guy while writing a blog about loony individuals

Well hello my dear Steemeers!! Let's take a brief look into a case that seems obvious at first, screaming schizophrenia all the way. Ok, this movie clearly depicts an acute onset of psychotic disorder,

Can you psychoanalyze a psychotic person? Yes. At certain extent it can get you some kind of insight in the background of ones suffering. The unconsciousness is flowing with ease through the mind. No

Have you ever wondered why Norman Bates used his knife to please his compulsions? Or why did Forrest Gump changed the history of USA in so many ways as he did with his obvious cognitive insufficiency?