Dr. Rujuta e-books

e-booklet on science of psychotherapy

I wrote this series to help readers understand the basic process of psychotherapeutic work. I worked with normal functional individuals. I did "talking therapy". I have avoided all technical jargon while describing the challenging process of "Awareness-Accepatance and Change" in therapy. I have published this series on www.sweekruti.org. This is a small e-book as ready reference.

e-booklet on human mind

For my website www.sweekruti.org, I wrote this series to help comman readers to understand day to day operations of human mind. Its a small essay with colorful images.

e-booklet on Dr. Freud

I feel that Dr. Freud was exceptionally brave to do self-analysis, learn from his observations, apply that knowledge to treat his patients and, publish the findings openly. I get mazed by sheer volume of his books. When I come across some of his words being used by my clients while expressing his/her self...I get delightfully surprised by the impact of Dr. Freud's writings and philosophy still have on minds of modern men and women. I have learned a lot from his writings especially structure of mind, psychosexual development, defense mechanisms. This knowledge of human mind is fundamental.

e-booklet on Perls

After completing my training, I worked with my clients using some of the gestalt exercises taking my clients into confidence and am a witness of major break through in my clients’ understanding of their perspective towards their lives.
Gestalt prayer was and still is used in my work both face to face and online.
I see to it that my clients are not fragile and have enough ego strength to undergo gestalt work.

e-booklet on Dr. Yalom

Dr. Yalom is my favorite author and psychotherapist.
In my last piece of self-work, I was helped immensely by existential realities put forth in existential psychotherapy.
They were the perfect answers to my work on my perfectionism.
I got healed from within by accepting myself as imperfect, mortal, human being with very less control on my destiny and events in my life.
It made me see that life can be unjust and we have inherent limitations to control worldly happenings.
His books on psychotherapy guide me while working with my clients.

e-booklet on Dr. Adler

Dr. Adler's early illnesses appeared to be blessing in disguise. He seemed to have made most of those sad days and helped other human beings with his useful insights. Adler was concerned with the overcoming of the superiority/inferiority dynamics. He often wrote for the lay public.
He had the nerve to challenge Freudian way of clinical practice. The primary differences between Adler and Freud centered on Adler's contention that the social realm (exteriority) is as important to psychology as is the internal realm (interiority).

e-booklet on Dr. Erikson

I felt very uncomfortable when I first learned about Erik's unknown father and that he was illegitimate son. I imagined what he might have gone through after learning about the truth late during his adolescence. Later, I felt that how creatively Erik used his identity confusion to study psychology, that too of small children and also that of troubled children. He could easily empathize with them in his practice.

e-booklet on Dr. Rogers

Congruence -- genuineness, honesty with the client, Empathy -- the ability to feel what the client feels, Respect -- acceptance, unconditional positive regard towards the client are necessary qualities of a therapist. These lines by Carl Rogers have had great impact on me while undergoing training.
I have experienced great power surging inside me while being honest and genuine.

e-booklet on Dr. Ellis

Ellis had exaggerated fears of speaking in public and during his adolescence he was extremely shy around women…this led him to experiment some RT exercises on himself and come out of his shyness.

Ellis was one of the founders of the American sexual revolution. He wrote a lot on sex without guilt. He wrote on homosexuality as well.
He introduced his popular "rational humorous songs", which combined humorous lyrics with a rational and self-helping message set to a popular tune. He used to sing freely in public. This way of making RT popular might have been a unique feat.

e-booklet on Dr. Maslow

When I first read about his concepts of a hierarchy of needs, metaneeds, self-actualizing persons, and peak experiences, I was very much impressed by his way of looking at human development and our innate urge to feel and seek happiness.
I could see my clients using his terms such as primary physiological needs. They could see clearly at which stage of development they were stuck or tend to revisit.
I liked the way he associated psychopathology with unfulfillment of basic needs and the situations when people are forced to live without basic values.

e-booklet on Dr. Jung

I admired his creativity to express his feelings of loneliness, sadness, insecurity through his art - drawings, paintings, sculpture etc.

I really appreciated his courage in noting down his memories about his experience of severe neurosis, psychosis (?) in a red colored diary Red Book.

I also admired his courage to let have his own thoughts being different than Dr. Freud's. He ventured to publish them and shared them with thinkers around the globe.

I was especially intrigued when I learned that he visited India and was fascinated by Hindu and other religions in the subcontinent.

e-booklet on Dr. Berne

I learned that we all play games unconsciously. I learned about the triad of victim, persecutor and rescuer and could see how I used to play games and how people play games. I learned to break the games myself and keep on breaking them whenever I become aware of them.

I have been helping my clients (since 2002) to learn about their own unconscious game playing and to master an art to break them and live a game-free life.