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Driver analysis and the life script

May 18, 2014 //  by Tony White

The final script payoff is of particular note. As people move into their 40s, 50s and 60s the final script payoff becomes much more obvious. We all have a life script and are all heading down that path through life to its inevitable conclusion.

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Category: TheoryTag: driver, life script, personality, rackets, Transactional analysis

Idealization and introjection

May 16, 2014 //  by Tony White

This also highlights the process of hero worship as a psychological phenomena and how it influences our personality development.

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Category: child development, Parent ego state, TheoryTag: child development, hero worship, idealisation, introjection, parent ego state

Graffiti and collectivism

May 13, 2014 //  by Tony White

Four or five months ago I went on a graffiti photographic shoot. I went through parts of the the city to find the best graffiti artwork to use them on my website and so forth. In my two day effort I found many high quality pieces and photographically recorded them. Included were 16 photographs I …

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Category: graffiti, society valuesTag: collectivism, graffiti, individualism

Characteristics of experimental drug and alcohol use

May 12, 2014 //  by Tony White

The goal of experimental use is to experiment and find out what this thing called cannabis feels like. Once they have used a few times they have experimented and thus the reason disappears.

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Category: drug, experimentation, marijuanaTag: drug use, experimentation, Transactional analysis

Alcohol does not create the alcoholic

May 11, 2014 //  by Tony White

Drugs do not grab people and draw them into addiction. The person with a particular personality structure will go and find their drug of choice and then an addiction will ensue.

Alcohol does not create the alcoholicRead More

Category: Addiction, Alcoholic, drug, TheoryTag: alcohol, drug, Free child, personality

Gateway theory of drug use

May 11, 2014 //  by Tony White

Statistics of Australian drug use This comes from the Australian Psychological Society “The use of licit substances is the most prevalent type of substance use, and an accepted part of Australian and most other western societies. The vast majority of Australians use caffeine, through the consumption of tea, coffee, cola drinks and chocolate. The regular …

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Category: drug, Psychotherapy, TheoryTag: Drug use rates, gateway theory of drugs

Curing alcoholism – switch the addiction

May 10, 2014 //  by Tony White

Where mother’s injunction says “Don’t leave me!” Synanon says “Stay here instead.” (p.185-186). He also says elsewhere, “Curing an addict is the easiest thing in the world – if.

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Category: Alcoholic, counselling, Psychotherapy, Theory, UncategorizedTag: addiction, alcohol, attachment, dependency, drug, mother

Comfort eating

May 10, 2014 //  by Tony White

Hence the infantile pattern of seeking relief from emotional discomfort through eating food.

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Category: Eating disorder, oral stage

Some therapeutic observations of the AA approach

January 13, 2014 //  by Tony White

In most counselling situations this can not occur. It may get too expensive and most often the person has to make appointments with the counsellor such that they have to wait days if not weeks to meet. Even if it is free or they can afford it most counsellors don’t really see the same client …

Some therapeutic observations of the AA approachRead More

Category: UncategorizedTag: alcohol, child development, Desensitization, dissociation, drugs

Stroke deprivation

December 29, 2013 //  by Tony White

As Eric Berne said, “A stroke is a unit of attention” and one can have positive strokes and negative strokes. As a therapist it is easy to forget the importance of strokes and the important therapeutic role they can play. The importance of them is no better demonstrated than by looking at a whole discipline …

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Category: Theory, UncategorizedTag: child, depression, stroke deprivation, strokes, therapy

Gambling addiction vs drug addiction

August 17, 2013 //  by Tony White

The DSM-5 includes gambling addiction in the substance-related and addictive disorders along with the drug and alcohol addictions. Whilst this could be seen as a widely held belief that gambling should be included in such a category along with drugs and alcohol it does have some difficulties. Firstly, in my book I see the dependent …

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Category: Uncategorized

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