David Forrest: Gestaltuk

These last few weeks have been full with activities and have incluned times of reflection in which various poetic thoughts have structured themselves into my mind To Meet Again Another year has gone by The trees continue patiently Enveloping the hills and valleys In a myriad of autumn colours With fresh fragrances in air There lies an atmosphere of calm In which meeting once more Brings contentment and joy Flowers for mum Softly , wake When you wake A new day comes into ex

SUICIDE and Therapy Behind every suicide is an untold story of intolerable isolation. In front of every suicide is a sense of desolation, grief, and helplessness shrouded in shame.

Ukraine belongs to Ukraine, not Russia and we will fight to retain our country - President Zelensky to Putin. So Putin used force to acquire the territory he wanted; as did President Grant, in 1875, after proposals to purchase the Black Hills were rejected.

an international presenter and clinician of the Richard Erskine Developmentally Based Relationally Focused Integrative Psychotherapy.

Suicide: a more sensitive and relational approach and link to PAPYRUS posting about terminology.

Key to appropriate action is ownership.  To own your responsibilities in you actions.  This is sometimes difficult as doing so may be to ack

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ca2q1zRophwgFM4y/ Shall I, Shan’t I? Do I do this , or do I not? Do you recognise the times when you...

The self that is my SELF is going to vary in behaviour and thought and emotion in differing situations and with different people.

Interruptions to Openness of Experiences Ideally we would all be operating in the ‘peachy’ segment.There are a lot of situations that inhibi

it is not the their death that causes pain, rather the attempt to sustain them. The pain is the attachment to was has gone

I'm not sure I titled this. Written in 2013, finishing sentiments with my client completing therapy. Death does not die ...

Early Affect Confusion: online with Dr Richard Erskine

I think of eating, therapeutically, as a desire for satisfaction, a satisfaction bodily held and experienced from nourishment.

I am presented with an array of difficulties from young people these days. I can feel helpless at times to restore or resolve the burden...

Our brain is tied to our heart by the vagus nerve. research has discovered minute variations in heart rate reveal the strength of this

Gestalt Therapy Theory of Creative Adjustment, quotes, with context if possible from various Gestalt books referencing Creative Adjustment

Contact with anything not novel - not different - does not require adjustment because the familiar, by definition, has been adjusted to

I have recently been in discussion with my therapist peers regarding ‘challenging’ interventions in therapy

his model is not based on a particular theory of personality development. It is a framework for conceptualising the helping process.

You can’t forget her, so don’t make the effort. Let nature take its course, as time passes, her influence on your life will decrease. Page92