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counselling

Silence and the unconscious – Part 2

July 26, 2021 //  by Tony White

In silence between therapist and client we see how transactions (non silence) can drag the client’s psychological energy from the unconscious into the conscious This diagram shows of how Freud conceived of the conscious and unconscious. In the human psyche there is a little bit of conscious at the top but most of it is …

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Category: communication, counselling, PsychotherapyTag: conscious and silence, psychotheraoy and silence, unconscious

Silence and the unconscious

July 25, 2021 //  by Tony White

Peter Ehrenhaus is a professor of communication and writes very interesting things about silence and symbolic expression. He says that silence can be an object or an encounter. With an encounter meaning can arise in silence between the individual and the object experienced as silent.  He is not a psychologist and presents his ideas in …

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Category: communication, counselling, graffitiTag: psychotherapy, silence, unconscious

The prison psychotherapist

January 3, 2017 //  by Tony White

Never a dull moment when working in a prison and great training for one’s diagnostic skills of some quite unusual forms of psychopathology.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: depression, prison, psychotherapy

The war on drugs! What war.

December 12, 2016 //  by Tony White

So if there is a war, as we are told, then the enemy is not doing very well.

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Category: Addiction, counsellingTag: war on drugs

The vagaries of psychotherapy

October 13, 2016 //  by Tony White

Eventually he solves his own problem and has a plan for how to deal with it in the future. I have said very little and in essence been a spectator to his own processing and working it out for himself.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy

The work life of a psychotherapist

January 4, 2016 //  by Tony White

We have all our fancy theories and techniques but for this type of client it’s just that simple. The person feels a connection with the therapist and that is what really counts.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: confidentiality, psychology, psychotherapy

Client factors in successful therapy

September 24, 2015 //  by Tony White

To be able and willing to show and release emotions in therapy is going to significantly improve the prognosis. Those who have trouble doing so will tend not to respond so successfully to treatment.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: intelligence, introspection, therapy outcome

The loneliness of the long distance therapist

August 23, 2015 //  by Tony White

I recall reading a book called The loneliness of the long distance runner. When I first saw this photograph of myself I thought of the phrase, The loneliness of the long distance therapist.

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Category: Child ego state, counselling, PsychotherapyTag: group therapy, loneliness, redecision

Implied communication in psychotherapy

April 23, 2015 //  by Tony White

Mother and father can say and do all sorts of different things to the child – good and bad – those actions tell the youngster if he is OK or not OK. But it is ultimately the youngster who chooses whether to accept or not accept the psychological message.

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Category: counselling, Psychotherapy, society valuesTag: redecision, therapy

Characteristics of transference

March 13, 2015 //  by Tony White

Transference neurosis refers to the situation in psychotherapy where the client will establish the same type and pattern of relationship with the therapist that he had with his original mother and father.

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Category: counselling, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: Ego states, therapy, transference

Authority problem and the good child in the family

January 18, 2015 //  by Tony White

If one has the opportunity it is pertinent to ask the parents about the good child in the family. The one who is not making any noise can be the one in most pain.

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Category: counselling, family, teenagerTag: authority problem, rebellious child, teenager

The family secret

October 14, 2014 //  by Tony White

The therapeutic response is clear. Get the family secret exposed and this can change family dynamics, quite profoundly at times.

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Category: counselling, Eating disorder, family, systems theoryTag: family dynamics, family secret, family structure, Family therapy

Child psychotherapy – competition

September 25, 2014 //  by Tony White

This is one of those articles where you begin writing something and end up writing about something completely different. I was going to write about children and black and white thinking but ended up writing about a recent sessions I did with two children and their mother.

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Category: counselling, ego states, Life position, parentingTag: Child psychotherapy, competition, Free child, Parenting

The two sides of goodbye work

June 30, 2014 //  by Tony White

It seems safe to say that the natural human condition is to have quite a strong ambivalence about emotional intimacy in relationship.

“I want it but it scares me”.

Hence one could argue, a key component of grief or goodbye work, is dealing with this natural ambivalence about intimacy with another.

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Category: counsellingTag: death, grief, psychotherapy

Therapy of self destructiveness

June 4, 2014 //  by Tony White

One does not seek to do therapy on this aspect of the personality but one embraces it and seeks to develop some kind of coexistence with it. One embraces their depression or learns to love their panic attacks one could say. It is accepted as a normal part of their thanatos. it can’t be changed even if one wanted to.

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Category: child development, counselling, UncategorizedTag: Adapted child, child development, Free child, life script, self destruction, thanatos

Sleepy as part of the Free Child

June 3, 2014 //  by Tony White

It should be noted that the third muse, sleepy, is a pull to nonlife, it is not a pull towards death. These people are not suicidal in the usual sense of the word.

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Category: child development, counselling, Psychotherapy, TheoryTag: counselling, Free child, nonlife

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

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