Dissociation is our way of coping with experiences that overwhelm our capacity to manage ourselves, our needs and sense of selfhood in relation to the experiences. We are familiar with the idea of trauma being compartmentalised in the psyche; put away for another day when the experiences, emotions and needs can be addressed. In my…
Tag: Psychotherapy Series
Protected: Psychiatric Diagnosis Part 2: help or hinderance?
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Protected: The Outsider Part 4: the scapegoat, and surviving the dysfunctional group
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Protected: The Outsider Part 3: whistleblowers, and surviving the inauthentic culture
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Protected: Reason for Being Part 10: developing a spiritual practice (Existential Affirmation Part 13)
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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: Reason for Being Part 9: the spiritual dimension (Existential Affirmation Part 12)
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Protected: Depression Part 4: downhill or uphill?
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Protected: Depression Part 2: a well-worn path
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Protected: Depression Part 1: Causes, anti-depressants, and two simple steps on your road to recovery
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Protected: The Outsider Part 2: living off-label
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CBT: a cheap ‘cure’ for psychiatric ‘Illness’?
“The fact remains that the construct of psychiatric diagnosis and the construct of a psychological model aligning itself to it are both divorced from the actual, more complex and individuated realities of the particular patient and the individual practitioner. The technocratic relationship of the first denies the non-mechanistic, much more complex organic nature of the…
