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Tag: relationships
Protected: The Abuse Cycle Part 11: narcissism’s heart of darkness
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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: Boundaries Part 1: keeping out the poison
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Protected: When the 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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Change Your World: Self-healing and Loving Kindness
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau My strong personal belief is that it is in human nature to take care of other living things as a feature of our conscience. Sadly, many people are out of touch with this facility in themselves. I think if our culture retained the…
Protected: Existential Analysis: how I work with you
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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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Self-healing: a shift from 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…
Choosing Public Sector or Private Therapeutic Support
Choosing between public and private psychotherapy, counselling and mental health support
Protected: The Outsider Part 6: a sane response to an insane world
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Protected: A Guide to Making the Most of Psychotherapy Sessions
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