Founder

The founder of MFT Sweden is Magnus Eliasson, born in Nacka, Stockholm, Sweden in 1968. He is a mechanical engineer within industrial economics and organization educated at the Royal institute of technology in Stockholm 1987-2002. In addition he has a five year psychology education from Linköping University 2000-2005 and has gone through psycodynamic psychotherapy for 1.5 years as well as a step 1 psychotherapeutic education with cognitive theoretical framework.

He played icehockey professionally in clubs like Hammarby Hockey, Södertälje SK och HV71 in Sweden, Germany, Finland and USA. He was the leading goalscorer in div 1/allsvenskan in the season of 1994/95. He stopped playing icehockey in 2000 as he entered his psychology studies.

After ice hockey Magnus started competing in Racketlon, a multiracketsport consisting of the four major racketsports Tabletennis, Badminton, Squash and Tennis since he had been playing all four sports complementary to icehockey. Magnus Racketlon career has turned into a success with 3 individual world championships titles, 5 team world championship titles, 6 individual swedish championship titles, five over all victories in the FIR world tour and around 35 world tour titles around the globe so far. He has been ranked the number one player in the world since November 2002.

Magnus has founded MFT Sweden as a way of creating possibilities for all people who feels they want mental development to feel better and increase the possibility to reach their goals in their careers, in sports, in relationships and other situations in life.

The need for mental fulfilment training, MFT

"During my professional career as an engineer and an athlete I have seen a number of people that in different ways have been out of balance mentally and have not found comfort in life or felt bad about not reaching their goals careerwise, in relationships, in sports or in the private life. I have also had periods in my life when I felt internally bad and did not have a clue what to do or where to turn. I believe people can feel so much better by finding out what they themselves can do in order to get control of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that torment them and create problems and see more clearly what they need to change in order to achieve what they want in different parts of life during present circumstances.

All we human beings are unic and have special prerequisites genetically, economically, socialy and culturally that are given to us and that we need to accept and learn how to cope with if we want to live in balance with ourselves and the environment. We are being shaped during our upbringing and have learnt ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that are sometimes constructive and sometimes destructive depending on in which circumstance they are applied. In this way people develop their special way of protecting themselves emotionally against events in life that can decrease self esteem, energy and joy of life and in the long run be the foundation of sickness, pointlessness and self destruction. Everyone that, from the inside, wants and are willing to bear the burden of self scrutiny can learn how to relate to these given circumstances so that they become possibilities instead of obstacles and thus leave the suffering of the soul behind. This not only relate to individuals but also to groups and organizations.

MFT is a combination of Psychodynamic- (PDT), Cognitive behaviour- (KBT) and Existential psychotherapeutic theory that aims to create possibilities for people to learn how to relate to outer circumstanses by clearifying their inner psychological defenses and change them to become constructive instead of destructive in the situations in life they choose to live in.

Today it is socially acceptable to go to the dentist to fix teeth, to the naturopath to fix the back or the bank to get help with finances but not as accepted to get in contact with a psychologist or psychotherapist to receieve help with emotional problems. MFT Sweden works to tear down this wall of resistance and prejudice by showing that psychological knowledge is at least as useful in everyday life as other more accepted professions. People who finally take action because they no longer cope, after standing in long therpeutic lines, might end up with a therapist who can not help or only recommends medicine that gives more side effects than effects. A lot of these people are not helped by the help given to them. MFT Sweden exists to help these people!

Long before you feel so bad that you need to go to a psychotherapist or take medicine MFT can help you. The human suffering of the soul is very often sprung out of a series of perceived failures in life that together, efter a long time, adds up to different kinds of psychological imbalances such as burnout, depression, anxiety, loss of apetite, loss of sex drive, aggression, sleep imbalance, eating disorders, psychosomatic conditions etc.

If the individual, in good time, before serious psycholocical problems occur, starts to train mentally with MFT, he or she can learn how to deal with tough situations in life instead of getting ill from the way of relating to them. It is like fixing a hole in your tooth before it gets so big you need to tear it out. Mental fulfilment training applies first of all to people, like you or me, that function pretty well in life, but still experience areas of frustration within wich they want to develop but also to people with greater more long term psychological suffering. Most people have a great potential to create new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving as long as they are willing to scrutinise themselves and the way they interpret the world around them.

If you can see yourself as one of these people or have somebody in your closeness that can please contact MFT Sweden by punching in the contact information under the headline "contact us" at the top of this page. You are most welcome. Yours sincerely, Magnus Eliasson"