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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 9: your fork in the road
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This Cold Hollow: children born to parents who don’t want them
How did I know that you had left me before I knew the words for empty, lost, bereft? Before my birth scar? Before I witnessed the guillotine of your contempt? Before I could control my bowel, or tie my shoe, or awakened trembling in the night. Before you scoffed at me as I learned to…
Protected: How Demons Travel: why we end up expressing others’ emotions
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The Trauma of Betrayal
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” ~Malcolm X Betrayal as Trauma The word ‘trauma’ is terribly overused in our society. It is adopted in psychological contexts from its medical use as indicating injury to living tissue from an…
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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Protected: Reactive Abuse: kicking the dog
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Protected: Destructive Envy and the Hungry Family
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Protected: Boundaries Part 3: information sheets
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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: Relationship Skills in Black and White
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 6: Responsibility
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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 5: genuine relationship
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Protected: Boundaries Part 1: ways we abuse one another
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Protected: Suffer the Little Children: neglect, abuse and its legacy for survivors
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Narcissistic Abuse Part 1: heart of darkness
This post is not intended as a guide for diagnosing or labelling individuals, but instead highlights the detrimental effects narcissistic individuals (including sociopathic, psychopathic and other exploitative personalities) can have upon us. Being able to recognise some of these effects can help us protect ourselves and seek effective help in recovering from the toxic relationships…
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?
