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Jul 19, 2024
Papyrus: suicide prevention
Suicide: a more sensitive and relational approach and link to PAPYRUS posting about terminology.
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May 22, 2024
and ... ACTION
Key to appropriate action is ownership. To own your responsibilities in you actions. This is sometimes difficult as doing so may be to ack
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May 19, 2024
Shall I, Shan't I
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...
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Apr 5, 2024
Untitled: Death is ...
I'm not sure I titled this. Written in 2013, finishing sentiments with my client completing therapy.
Death does not die ...
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Mar 10, 2024
Interruptions to Openness of Experience
Interruptions to Openness of Experiences
Ideally we would all be operating in the ‘peachy’ segment.There are a lot of situations that inhibi
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Mar 5, 2024
Grief is the lament for their dying
it is not the their death that causes pain, rather the attempt to sustain them. The pain is the attachment to was has gone
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Nov 29, 2023
Early Affect Confusion
Early Affect Confusion: online with Dr Richard Erskine
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Oct 13, 2023
Diet, Nutrition: eating as a desire for emotional satisfaction
I think of eating, therapeutically, as a desire for satisfaction, a satisfaction bodily held and experienced from nourishment.
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Aug 6, 2023
Not-Happiness
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...
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Jun 8, 2023
Contact, Attunement, and Our Vagal Tone
Our brain is tied to our heart by the vagus nerve. research has discovered minute variations in heart rate reveal the strength of this
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Jun 4, 2023
Gestalt Therapy Theory of Creative Adjustment - some text references
Gestalt Therapy Theory of Creative Adjustment, quotes, with context if possible from various Gestalt books referencing Creative Adjustment
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Apr 3, 2023
Contacting Process of Gestalt Therapy Theory
Contact with anything not novel - not different - does not require adjustment because the familiar, by definition, has been adjusted to
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Apr 3, 2023
Challenge – as an intervention in therapy
I have recently been in discussion with my therapist peers regarding ‘challenging’ interventions in therapy
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Feb 12, 2023
Egan Skilled Helper Model
his model is not based on a particular theory of personality development. It is a framework for conceptualising the helping process.
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Feb 12, 2023
Dream Lover versus Reality
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
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Feb 12, 2023
Teenage Self Harm
The most common reasons given by pupils for deliberate self harm were 'to find relief from a terrible state of mind' or because they had...
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Feb 12, 2023
Embracing the Adolescent
In working with adolescents / teenagers I bring my experiences of working with 11 - 16 year old school students. As a teacher for 10...
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Feb 12, 2023
Panic Attacks
Panic Attacks Those suffering panic attacks tend to describe their condition as something unsayable. This unsayability would seem to lie...
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