updated June 29, 2020 Everyone has an opinion and many people don’t mind sharing their opinions from a normative standpoint. Namely, often we declare our views as if they hold authority over others’ opinions and validity for all. Within the group, the power of the consensus begins to grow in its influence upon the individual…
Category: authenticity
Protected: Have You Ever Been Seen? Part 2: Anxiety, Nothingness and the Existential Survival Kit
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Protected: Have You Ever Been Seen? Part 1: Anxiety, Nothingness and Surviving the First Lie
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 9: your fork in the road
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Protected: Darkness Travels: how we allow ourselves to be shaped by others
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Protected: The Vulnerable Self
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Object Relations: Self and Other
Cameos, written in irony, illustrating how human beings routinely and habitually relate to Self and Other as objects.
Protected: Relationship Skills Part 2: equal investment
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Protected: The Reduction of Being: relating to others as objects
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Authority Part 3: Falseness and Authenticity
How subservience to toxic authority erodes individual freedom, power and 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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Protected: Boundaries Part 1: ways we abuse one another
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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
“You were born an original, don’t die a copy.” -John Mason 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 or rejecting of the group. I wanted to start writing a series of…
Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 2: a good or bad idea?
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 1: the courage to stick your neck out
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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?
