[HOT AIR] You’ve probably heard the idea at some point in your life that suppressing negative thoughts or emotions is bad for you. If you suppress them they’ll just erupt in some unexpected way. Therefore it’s better, so we’ve been told, to spend time in therapy talking through those negative thoughts at length. That’s the path to healing.
But a newly released study by researchers at Cambridge University suggests those ideas may be fundamentally wrong. Dr. Michael Anderson, the director of the new research connected the findings all the way back to Freud. |