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Dependency

Grief is a finite process

December 16, 2016 //  by Tony White

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.

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Category: Dependency, griefTag: grief, loss

School refusal or school phobia

September 25, 2015 //  by Tony White

The child refuses to go to school or demonstrates repeated illnesses in an attempt to avoid school.

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Category: child development, Dependency, familyTag: bed wetting, clining behaviour, nightmares, school phobia

Leading questions in psychotherapy

September 13, 2015 //  by Tony White

Hence leading questions can be used as a type of hypnotic suggestion to assist the client. BUT the therapist has to be sure their interpretation of the client is accurate.

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Category: Dependency, PersonalityTag: hypnosis, memory, therapy

Hurried child and OCD

February 16, 2015 //  by Tony White

The condition of OCD can sometimes result from being raised in a hurried child environment as a youngster. The child develops chronic anxiety and this manifests as OCD in adulthood. The anxiety residing in the person becomes expressed in some kind of obsessions and compulsions as they grow older.

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Category: Dependency, PsychotherapyTag: anxiety, magical thinking, OCD

Further aspects of drug use ambivalence

January 20, 2015 //  by Tony White

However there is quite a sizeable group (most people) who use drugs and alcohol in a non problematic way. They use drugs and alcohol such that their life script is not advanced and their relationships are not damaged in any significant way.

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Category: Dependency, drug, ego statesTag: ambivalence, drug use, Ego states

Reverse psychology as a therapeutic approach

December 11, 2014 //  by Tony White

I had refused to engage her RC therapy and instead suggested some Free Child activity we could do. Maybe that had allowed her to at last discover that her Free Child didn’t want to smoke anymore.

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Category: Addiction, Child ego state, Dependency, PsychotherapyTag: addiction, drug, rebellious child, smoking, therapy

The young adult and independence

July 28, 2014 //  by Tony White

If she believes this (with or without his encouragement) she finds herself in the same relationship dynamics as the teenager who is not economically separate from the parents. The marriage will then suffer.

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Category: Dependency, Marriage, Relationship, systems theory, teenagerTag: individuation, Marriage, separation, teenager

Intimacy ambivalence

July 3, 2014 //  by Tony White

The problem with experiencing emotional intimacy with another is that it also frightens people.

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Category: Dependency, intimacy, RelationshipTag: closeness, Free child, intimacy, relationships

Neediness in relationship

May 24, 2014 //  by Tony White

(I was asked about neediness the other day and how to deal with it) Why would a woman repetitively become involved with men who are needy. Men who require emotional propping up. Therapy The focus of therapy is about her, not about him. She has probably spent some time discussing him with friends and family …

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Category: All Blog Posts, Dependency, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: dependency, empower, life script, therapy

Neediness in relationship

May 24, 2014 //  by Tony White

That she chooses needy men just as much as they choose her. Her pattern is not bad luck or some kind of fate. She needs needy men just as much as needy men need her.

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Category: Dependency, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: dependency, empower, life script, therapy

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