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drug

Hot potatoe as a homicidal act.

April 10, 2017 //  by Tony White

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.

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Category: drug, suicideTag: homicide, suicide

Dependent drug use and giving up

December 10, 2016 //  by Tony White

Most people entering counselling will be most surprised by this and are not expecting the drug counsellor to be of this mind at all.

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Category: Addiction, drugTag: addiction, ben cousins, drug use

Duplex transaction

September 20, 2016 //  by Tony White

Despite the reason, we humans can’t keep a secret. We will say it out. The key is for the listener to stop listening and start watching. As a therapist it is certainly better to do this regularly with your clients.

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Category: child development, drugTag: transaction, unconscious

Stroke intensity and life style

April 8, 2016 //  by Tony White

Really the only solution is to change from negative strokes to positive strokes but negative strokes always have more potency than positive strokes.

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Category: Addiction, drugTag: therapy, Transactional analysis

Teenagers, parents and alcohol.

January 21, 2015 //  by Tony White

Forget the whole testing thing and start the slow process of rebuilding the lines of communication. Hopefully it wont be too late and there are not too many deep scars left on both parent and teenager, such that a reconciliation is impossible.

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Category: drug, Eating disorder, parentingTag: alcohol, Parenting, teenager

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

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.

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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

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