Mind Your Life Pte Ltd was founded in March 2006, and is the result of the professional journey of Dr. Tatjana Potrebic. Our mission is to help people on their life’s journey and to facilitate inner development. The foundation of our practice is rooted in conventional medicine, anthroposophical medicine and Jungian analysis. Forged over years of practice, Dr. Potrebic’s unique style draws on these approaches in dealing with personal, relationship and family challenges.
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders. These include various affective, behavioral, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities. The term was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808, and literally means the 'medical treatment of the soul'. While conventional medicine and psychiatry gave answers to many questions from a biological point of view, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
Anthroposophic medicine is based on the spiritual philosophy of anthroposophy, which regards human wellness and illness as biographical events connected to the body, mind and spirit of the individual. Anthroposophic medicine uses a holistic approach ("salutogenesis") that seeks to support the preconditions for health by strengthening the patient's physiology and individuality, as well as addressing the specific factors that cause disease. The self-determination, autonomy and dignity of patients is a central theme. Conventional medical treatments, including surgery and medications, are employed as necessary and anthroposophical physicians must have a conventional medical education, including a degree from an established and certified medical school, as well as post-graduate study.
Jungian analysis is a distinctive approach to the study of the human mind developed by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung. In his early years, while working with schizophrenic patients in a Swiss hospital, as well as with Sigmund Freud and the burgeoning psychoanalytic community, Jung began to take a closer look into the depths of the human unconscious. Fascinated by what he saw, and spurred on by his own experiences, he devoted his life to the exploration of the unconscious. Unlike many modern psychologists, Jung did not believe that the natural sciences were the only means of understanding the human psyche; rather, he saw the world of dream, myth, and folklore as a road to deeper understanding and meaning. As Jung said, "The beauty about the unconscious is that it is really unconscious." Hence, the unconscious cannot be reached through experimental research, or through scientific or philosophical enquiry, precisely because it is unconscious. His proof of the vast collective unconscious was his concept of synchronicity – the inexplicable, uncanny connectedness that we all share.
The overarching goal of Jungian psychology is the attainment of self through individuation.
Jung defines "self" as the "archetype of wholeness and the regulating center of the psyche." Central to this process is the individual's encounter with his/her psyche, the bringing of its elements into consciousness, and awakening. Humans experience the unconscious through symbols encountered in all aspects of life: in dreams, art, religion, and the symbolic dramas we enact in our relationships and life’s pursuits. Essential to this numinous encounter is the merging of the individual's consciousness with the collective consciousness through this symbolic language. The psyche is a self-regulating adaptive system. Humans are energetic systems, and if the energy gets blocked, the psyche gets stuck, or sick. If adaption is thwarted, the psychic energy will stop flowing, and regress. Human psychic contents are complex, and deep. The principles of adaptation, projection, and compensation are central processes in Jung’s view of the psyche’s ability to adapt.
The aim of psychotherapy is to assist the individual in reestablishing a healthy relationship to the unconscious: neither flooded by it, nor out of balance in relationship to it. The modern individual grows continually in psychic awareness by attending to dreams, exploring the world of religion and spirituality, and questioning the assumptions of the operant societal worldview rather than just blindly living life in accordance with dominant norms and assumptions.