How subservience to toxic authority erodes individual freedom, power and authenticity.
Category: authenticity
Authority Part 2: Welfare and Wellbeing
How subservience to toxic authority erodes individual freedom, power and authenticity.
Mindset: Entitlement, Empowerment and Cooperation
Three discreet, contrasting mindsets evident within psychotherapy and society are entitlement, empowerment and cooperation. Taking a compassionate, non-judgmental approach, it is worth clarifying each of these mindsets and their implicit values and their relevance to psychotherapy work in the interests of helping patients appreciate and enhance their contribution to the therapeutic relationship with the overall…
Protected: Existential Awareness: a thread of despair
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Protected: Relationship Skills in Black and White
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 6: Responsibility
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Protected: Existential Void: beyond an empty belly
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 8: when no-one’s looking
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Protected: The Labels We Use on Self and Other
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Protected: Boundaries Part 2: your values and rules of engagement
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 7: living an authentic lifestyle
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 5: genuine relationship
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 4: being and becoming
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Boundaries Part 1: ways we abuse one another
The importance of forming effective boundaries in helping us protect ourselves against hurt and abuse
Protected: Splitting: the world and others in black and white
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Protected: Existential Crisis
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Protected: The Outsider Part 4: the scapegoat, and surviving the dysfunctional group
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Authority Part 1: Common Sense and Freedom
How subservience to toxic authority erodes individual freedom, power and authenticity.
Protected: The Outsider Part 3: whistleblowers, and surviving the inauthentic culture
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Protected: Anger, Aggression and Passive-Aggression
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Protected: Spirituality II: Developing an Existential Practice
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Ways of passing the time
Indifference Here I am and there you are. And there’s the clock on the wall. I pretend I don’t want anything from you. You pretend you don’t want anything from me. Our pretending binds us like a form of artificial intimacy. And keeps us hungry, a million miles apart. Conversation I pretend I’m listening to…
Protected: The Outsider Part 2: living off-label
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 3: the healing power of truth
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Protected: Self-Esteem: Social Worth v Existential Value
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Protected: Narcissistic Abuse Part 2: from darkness to light
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The Outsider Part 1: clarifying our place in society
If there’s one area of my work that I have a special interest in it’s working with people who feel like they don’t fit in or who find themselves rejected by the group. I wanted to start writing a series of posts on this subject because of the confusion and assumptions that we typically make…
Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 2: a good or bad idea?
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Personal Authenticity Part 1: the courage to stick your neck out
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” -Søren Kierkegaard I read Nietzche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Marcel, Unamuno, Heidegger and a bunch of other guys whilst searching for ‘meaning’ during and after my studies as a psychotherapist. And whilst they all helped the intellectual journey of finding words to grapple with the…
Mental distress: a sane response to an insane world
Is there something wrong with me? Or am I responding sanely to something wrong with the world?
