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Notes for Intimacy and Love in Therapy
an expression of gratitude, a loving gesture, or an affectionate word/ take that expression at face value/
Jun 26, 2023
Poetry: An In The Moment Response
Sitting, isolate, muffled by the sounds / Bodies fidgeting, footsteps closing / I don’t understand what is wanted of me
I don’t un
Jun 24, 2023
Speak to Me Words
his was an 'in the moment' expression whilst i was preparing my workshop on 'Exploring The Client's Words in Therapy'.
Jun 24, 2023
Between Heartbeats
Poem: Between Heartbeats.
Sometimes the struggle to live is too much. A life much fulfilled hurt with despair. You live in my heart.
Jun 22, 2023
Intimacy and Love in Therapy
As clients begin to re-own the denied and dissociated parts of themselves, they are likely to recover the ability to feel more intensely …
Jun 10, 2023
Exploring the Client's Words in Therapy
In this essay the focus is on the client’s talking. The purpose is to expand the client’s awareness of their talking, of their language
Jun 10, 2023
Subscribing for Resource Material
I realised I needed to be clear on the submission of the forms as to their intent
Jun 9, 2023
The Function of Aggression in Therapy
Describing the role of aggression as this release of energy reframes the function of aggression as the required shift of energy
Jun 9, 2023
Resistance to Change the ah but moments
Relationally, consider not resistant, rather … managing the situation utilising past experiences. The client is not ready, or not able
Jun 9, 2023
Touch in Therapy
Workshop: Touch in Therapy In this workshop, my intention is to provide an opportunity to explore what touch evokes. As the starting...
Jun 9, 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
Jun 8, 2023
The Three Perspectives Diagnostic Model
The author uses his psychiatric background to present the Three Perspectives Diagnostic Model
Jun 7, 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
Jun 4, 2023
Introduction to Personality Disturbances. Diagnostic and Social Remarks
Michela Gecele, This brief chapter is an introduction to later chapters addressing specific personality disturbances.
Jun 4, 2023
Website relaunch
Slightly ahead of schedule, to be honest! I wanted to import the member list from the original site settings and after importing it...
May 29, 2023
Attachment Theory: Some Implications for Gestalt Theory
Recent neurobiological research findings parallel, support, and inform Gestalt field theory’s notions of childhood development.
May 29, 2023
HELPFUL ASPECTS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP IN INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
a qualitative study of helpful aspects of the therapeutic relationship. revealed six categories of helpful aspects
May 23, 2023
I HAVE FEELINGS, TOO - THE JOURNEY FROM AVOIDANT TO SECURE ATTACHMENT
I explore how psychotherapeutic treatment the client process of integration and development of a secure state of mind is unfolding
May 23, 2023
DEVELOPMENTALLY BASED, RELATIONALLY FOCUSED INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: EIGHT ESSENTIAL POINTS
the history and eight essential points of a developmentally based, relationally focused integrative psychotherapy.
May 23, 2023
A GENTLER GESTALT THERAPY: ON REDUCING STIMULATION IN ADULT SURVIVORS OF ABUSE
Adult survivors of abuse require a slower progression in treatment.
May 23, 2023
Pathways to a relational worldview
my psychoanalytic teaching is an attempt to bring the clinical strengths of gestalt therapy into contemporary psychoanalytic practice
May 23, 2023
The Father-Daughter Dilemma: Incest and Counter-Incest
Counter-incest victims are daughters whose fathers turn away in apparently cold rejection as the daughters reach adolescence
May 23, 2023
A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Shame and Self Righteousness: Theory and Methods
ABSTRACT Shame and self-righteousness are intrapsychic dynamics that help the individual defend against a rupture in relationship. This...
May 7, 2023
Shame and Belonging in Childhood
The Interaction Between Relationship and Neurobiological Development ABSTRACT Recent neurobiological research findings parallel, support,...
May 6, 2023
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