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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...
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...
Feb 12, 2023
Ten Things Your Teen Is Reluctant to Tell You
Ten Things Your Teen Is Reluctant to Tell You by Colleen L. Reece The full, original, text for this article appears in the table below...
Feb 12, 2023
Change: Resistance - Stability versus Change
CHANGE Resistance - Stability versus Change All movement engenders resistance. Since experience is in constant flux, it too takes place...
Feb 12, 2023
Gestalt Therapy with the Phobic-Obsessive-Compulsive Relational Styles
By Giovanni Salonia in Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice: From Psychopathology to the Aesthetics of Contact (Gestalt Therapy Book...
Feb 10, 2023
Love in Psychotherapy. From the Death of Oedipus to the Emergence of the Situational
By Margherita Spagnuolo-Lobb Ch6 in Spagnuolo Lobb, M., Orange, D. & Migone, P., 2014. The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy...
Feb 10, 2023
Fears of Abandonment and Borderline: Personality Disorder
I hold that the aim of treatment is not to change the style of contact, but rather to experience this style with less anxiety.
Feb 10, 2023
Emotional Response and Therapist Reply
From: Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships. Richard Erskine, Janet Moursund, and Rebecca Trautmann Download Book Notes:...
Feb 10, 2023
Early Affect-Confusion: The “Borderline” between Despair and Rage
by Richard G. Erskine, Chapter Thirteen in Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative...
Feb 10, 2023
Borderline: The Wound of the Boundary
by Margherita Spagnuolo-Lobb in Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice: From Psychopathology to the Aesthetics of Contact (Gestalt Therapy...
Feb 10, 2023
Aggression, Time, and Understanding
Aggression, Time, and Understanding: Contributions to the Evolution of Gestalt Therapy. Frank-M. Staemmler Download Book Notes: except...
Feb 8, 2023
Gestalt Therapy Perspective on Depressive Experiences
existence is not tolerable without desire; depressive experience is related to the renunciation of the desire to be desired
Feb 8, 2023
Anxiety Within the Situation: Disturbances of Gestalt Construction
If we see psychology as the study of human experience, then psychopathology is the study of the dysfunctions of that experience
Feb 8, 2023
Actualising Tendency
From: Person-Centred Therapy in Focus (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Focus Series). Paul Wilkins Download Book Notes: Actualising...
Feb 8, 2023
Attunement
Feeling understood and in contact involves more the logical, rational meaning of our words. having them know how we feel - being attuned
Feb 8, 2023
Gestalt Therapy and Developmental Theories
in Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice: From Psychopathology to the Aesthetics of Contact (Gestalt Therapy Book Series 2). Gianni...
Jan 26, 2023
A bodhisattva-spirit-oriented counselling framework: inspired by Vimalakīrti wisdom
This exploratory research conceptualises a counselling framework based on a canonical analysis of the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra
Jan 25, 2023
Christmas 2022
Maybe Christmas just can't be the same anymore. There is so much that is messed up perhaps it's time to grasp moments of joy in this...
Dec 29, 2022
Could You Just Listen
When I ask you to listen to me, and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me, and you...
Dec 16, 2022
The Journey Out of Despair
The journey out of despair; a maelstrom of emotion and thought
Mar 18, 2022
Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of Qualitative Research
Irene Vasilachis de Gialdino. 2009 Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of Qualitative Research. Volume 10, No. 2, Art. 30
Aug 4, 2021
Suffering in Adolescence
Faced with boredom, listlessness, fatigue disinterest and the like there are difficulties for both the Young Adult/Adolescent and the parent
Oct 5, 2019
Pale Blue Dot
Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977. Vicariously experiencing Voyager affects our perception and existential place in the cosmos
Oct 5, 2019
Part3: Depressive experience of Young Adults and Adolescents (YAA)
“Humans have been turning 13 for tens of thousands of years, but only recently did it occur to anybody that the bridge between childhood...
Apr 20, 2019
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