If the conscious and unconscious want different things always give the client what the unconscious wants.
Post suicide fantasy
“I am not one who fears the end of life. I think when it comes it will be a relief. Can finally rest.”
Redecision therapy reconsidered
An internal LOC is a empowering position. It is saying to the person, you can take charge and change your life. You are the one in control of your life script, feelings and so forth.
The shadow
But then after halloween is over that part of us is quickly packed away again safe from our conscious.
Why is anger seen as bad
First and foremost anger is always potentially life threatening.
Parental expectations of children
Research on what parents believe children can do at various ages found significant gaps in parental expectations in some core areas of child psychological development
Developmental significance of jealousy
If handled correctly by the parents it allows the child to develop out of its primary narcissism and to develop a sense of the worth of others.
Reverse psychology as a therapeutic approach (and the teenager)
It is imperative a therapist seek to engage with the Free Child of the teenage client. But many therapist’s forget this and stay focussed only on the Rebellious Child
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Nonverbal permissions by default
Permissions can also be given in an implied way. A therapist who listens to a client and accepts a contract is covertly giving the permission to change
Depression and suicide
Depression does not cause suicide. However Transactional Analysis can provide a clear theoretical explanation of why one depressed person can be suicidal and another is not even thinking about i
Relational contact in the Parent interview
Again it will lead to a sense of feeling heard and feeling some level of relationship building with another person.
Wall of trivia
It is the Free Child to Free Child interactions that provide for the emotional intimacy between two people.
How many personality types is the right number?
In reality there are as many personality types as there are people on this planet, over 6 billion.
Goodness of fit in parenting
Of course all parents project onto their offspring and at times identify with personality characteristics in their children.
Suicide and the copy cat effect
In essence homicide-suicide is seen as a subtype of suicide.
Hot potatoe as a homicidal act.
Indeed if a rescuer is doing this then they really cannot be seen as a rescuer and would need to be more correctly diagnosed as a persecutor.
Listening to the unconscious in self
In working with enactments the therapist must seek to become aware of their unconscious and dissociated parts of self.
The suicide homicide attempt
2. If things get too bad I will kill myself and others.
Assimilative psychotherapy
At some point one needs to switch from rejecting this part of self to an integration of it.
The importance of good Adult ego state in relationships
Revenge, wanting justice to be done, to have my day in court or for things to be made fair are all wishes and desires that reduce one’s ability to drop a feeling.
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The politics of diagnosis.
othing has actually changed in Australians. All that has changed is the diagnosis to include more people.
The executive of the personality
Most efforts are directed at the the executive of the personality, the Child, but still a significant amount of effort is directed at the Parent and Adult influencing the Child’s direction.
Birth order and personality
Three children is the maximum that one parent can emotionally cover. After that sub groupings amongst siblings will form.
The prison psychotherapist
Never a dull moment when working in a prison and great training for one’s diagnostic skills of some quite unusual forms of psychopathology.
Process for bereavement in suicide of a loved one
We don’t like it but we can understand the death of a loved one by accident or illness. However the death of a loved one by suicide leaves us more puzzled.
Grief is a finite process
Indeed the DSM 5 says if there is intense sorrow and emotional pain for a loved one after 12 months then that is classed as complicated bereavement, a neurotic condition.
Suicide attempt caught on video
Some fifteen years later he was executed by lethal injection. So he finally did complete the suicide attempt and he got the state to kill him.
The war on drugs! What war.
So if there is a war, as we are told, then the enemy is not doing very well.
Dependent drug use and giving up
Most people entering counselling will be most surprised by this and are not expecting the drug counsellor to be of this mind at all.
The anti smoking lobby prohibitionists
But this time is is prohibition by stealth, they have not sought to have tobacco made illegal but they have sought to make tobacco prohibitively expensive.