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Tag: relationships
Protected: The Outsider Part 7: belonging
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Protected: Boundaries Part 6: attachment
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Protected: Boundaries Part 7: Relationship Imbalances and the Co-dependency See-Saw
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Mindset Part 10: Self-healing and Loving Kindness
Entitlement and Lack of Generosity I looked that the entitlement mindset in an earlier article, which examined how this mindset is a symptom of unmet infantile needs that carry the expectation that other adults owe us something. Freud referred to the Anal stage of child development in his early theories whereby interruption of the stage…
Protected: Boundaries Part 4: Relationship Skills
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Protected: Being-in-the-world Part 4: When Past is Present
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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: Depression Part 4: downhill or uphill?
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Protected: Depression Part 3: ‘bad’ feelings, alcohol and substance misuse
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Protected: Depression Part 2: a well-worn path
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Protected: Personal Authenticity Part 3: the healing power of truth
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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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Mindset Part 12: pain to compassion in five minutes
Periods of mental distress are often characterised by a hyper-focus on our own struggles to the exclusion of everything else. In the midst of pain and suffering, loneliness and desperation we can end up so concentrated on the distressing aspects of our lives and on what is missing that we literally forget ourselves and what’s…
Protected: The Outsider Part 6: a sane response to an insane world
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Protected: Psychotherapy Part 6: A Guide to Making the Most of Your Sessions
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Protected: Psychotherapy Part 4: existential practice
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Psychotherapy Part 2: Public or Private
Choosing between public and private psychotherapy, counselling and mental health support
