Excessive self-criticism exists when an individual often analyzes his actions with the impression that he did something bad or not good enough. It exists in people who, when they receive recognition for their work, do not experience satisfaction; when due to mistakes from the past, a person can come to the opinion that he is bad or incompetent,...

An increased degree of striving for perfection can be interpreted as a psychological problem when the tendency to work, behave, create without mistakes is the dominant feature of the way a person behaves and approaches certain tasks and situations

Narcissism is a personality characteristic that points to the presence of a greater degree of grandiose experience of personal importance and importance, ideas about exceptional success without objective indicators of the same, high needs for constant approval from people around, attention and recognition from others.

Transactional analysis is a theory of personality, a theory of interpersonal communication and a psychotherapy direction. In the 1950s, the American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Eric Berne defined the basic ideas and theoretical concepts of this direction.

Irwin Yalom is an American psychiatrist whose work and literary works belong to the domain of existential psychiatry and psychotherapy.

In psychology, Rogers' name is associated with CLIENT-ORIENTED THERAPY, that is, a non-directive approach in psychotherapy.

Albert Ellis (1913-2007) studied and received his doctorate in psychology at Columbia University in New York. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, the work of Albert Ellis is of exceptional importance due to the formulation of the psychotherapeutic theory and methods encompassed under the name REBT (rational-emotive behavioral therapy).

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of the psychotherapy direction called logotherapy. His theory and work belong to the existentialist direction of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Fritz Perls was a psychiatrist who founded a new direction in the psychological treatment of mental disorders - GESTALT THERAPY.

Alfred Adler was a doctor by education, and in the field of psychology he is known as the founder of the direction he called individual psychology. He was a contemporary of Freud, but on many issues he disagreed with classical psychoanalytic theory.

Erik Erikson was a psychoanalyst and is one of the representatives of the direction of ego psychology. Erikson's work will be remembered for its contribution to the interpretation of personality development. According to his theory of psychosocial personality development, personality development occurs throughout life. He believed that two-way interaction between the person and the environment is KEY for development.

BF Skinner was a behavioral psychologist whose work is best remembered in the field of learning psychology. He was engaged in the study of operant conditioning - he was interested in which factors contribute to the retention of the desired behavior in an individual, and which factors contribute to the reduction or loss of undesired behavior.

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, a writer and philosopher who dealt with the philosophy of the absurd in his works.