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The importance of challenge in the therapeutic relationship
We have been working on our receptive skills for the main part of the year thus far, how we hold the work of clients. It is important to remember that it is critical to cultivate a degree of restraint...
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My extended interview with Dr Marie Keenan, author of Child Sexual Abuse and...
Dr Marie Keenan UCD My extended interview with systemic psychotherapist, social worker and researcher Dr Marie Keenan, author of Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church Gender, Power, and...
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It is intriguing how some patients can invoke certain feelings and not others.
It was good to get back to my psychiatric placement at an NHS Mental Health Trust today and to a ward review meeting. I have been sitting in on clinic sessions at a university hospital with consultant...
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How big a factor is pre-transference in the therapeutic relationship?
A lot has been written about transference and counter transference from the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client. Of course we do not approach people in any walk of life as a blank...
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Transference when seeing clients in prison
I have previously discussed the issues surrounding transference and indeed pre transference where I wondered how the circumstances and location of the therapy session affected the minds of both the...
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The relevance of early life and psychodynamic ideas in transpersonal...
the journey in transpersonal integrative psychotherapy is to seek one’s essence, one’s real self I often wonder if early life experiences are important in shaping adult character and whether...
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Being ‘psychotherapeutically correct’
I believe I can be ‘psychotherapeutically correct’ a lot of the time I have now finished my 16 weeks of group process culminating in a weekend residential retreat in the Kent countryside. For the...
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Where do we draw the line as therapists on who we see?
I feel rested and ready for the new term of my course following my return from holiday having enjoyed the sunshine in the south of France. I always find the power of now to be easier to achieve in hot...
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Sexual abuse, erotic transference and how to deal with panic attacks
Our second weekend on sex involved discussing sexual abuse, erotic transference and how to deal with panic attacks. There were lots of opportunities to discuss the practical aspects of our client work...
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Understanding Dunblane and other Massacres: Forensic Studies of Homicide,...
I have always been intrigued by what makes people commit murderous acts of rage. This is not a morbid reflection on man’s inhumanity to man, on my part, or indeed an attempt by me to gain vicarious...
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