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ego states

Self control. Therapeutic implications

March 28, 2020 //  by Tony White

This picture shows a common thought which the eating disordered person can have. Self starvation can be about an attempt at self control and of course we also have binge eating which is out of control eating behaviour. As soon as you start to try and control the Child ego state you are eventually going …

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Category: Eating disorder, ego states, emotionsTag: Ego states, obsessive compulsive, panic attack, self control

Adult ego state strengthening – post 1

March 23, 2020 //  by Tony White

The Adult ego state is suggested in many psychological theories as the state of psychological health. In the Adult ego state the person sees the world as it is in the here and now and the person is not reacting to the world as they did when they were a child. (i.e. not in the …

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Category: ego states, PsychotherapyTag: adult ego state

Client’s chair in the therapy room – Part 2

February 27, 2019 //  by Tony White

In addition as the client regresses more they become more open to hypnotic suggestions.

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Category: ego statesTag: regression, therapy room

Two types of paranoid thinking

September 14, 2016 //  by Tony White

As we know A1 thinking can be magical thinking and this would explain why the paranoid personality can have at times quite bizarre beliefs. Such as thoughts being monitored by people who are not of this earth.

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Category: child development, ego statesTag: grandiosity, paranoid

Fotographia

October 10, 2015 //  by Tony White

Interestingly my comments have changed over time. What I was saying in the first ones is different to what I am saying in them now and again I have no idea what that means, or the point of it is, or what the evolution is.

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Category: ego states, PersonalityTag: Ego states, fotographia

Adolescence, anger and what to do – part 2.

September 28, 2015 //  by Tony White

One deals with the anger problem by not talking about it, which may seem a little odd.

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Category: Anorexia, ego states, familyTag: Free child, rebellious child, teenager

Adolescence, anger and what to do

September 26, 2015 //  by Tony White

If this is happening the therapist again must be open to the idea that mother or father secretly delight in the angry self destructive acts of the teenager. This allows the mother or father to avoid the expression of their own self destructiveness.

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Category: child development, ego states, familyTag: anger, parents response, teenager

Five ways to ego state diagnosis

February 22, 2015 //  by Tony White

Eric Berne listed four ways of recognising ego states and as we know a fifth way (contextual diagnosis) has since been added.

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Category: ego states, PersonalityTag: ego state diagnosis, eric berne

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

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

Black and white thinking – Normal and abnormal.

September 24, 2014 //  by Tony White

The literature on black and white thinking often carries some confusion about the explanation of what it is. Or more correctly what are the underlying psychological causes that result in a person displaying this childlike type of thinking.

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Category: child development, Child ego state, dissociation, ego statesTag: A1 ego state, adult ego state, Black and white thinking, borderline personality, cognitive development

The three ego state integrative model

July 17, 2014 //  by Tony White

In essence the Parent and Child ego states free up the Adult to engage in higher level cognitive functions and relationship skills. Indeed the Adult ego state is dependent on having active Parent and Child ego states influencing it.

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Category: child development, ego statesTag: child development, Ego states, fixation, introjection

Who am I? Therapeutic consequences.

June 22, 2014 //  by Tony White

Also they may have a strong Please me driver. This person defines self according to the needs and wants of others. The intent of this driver is to obtain nurture (love, approval) and avoid abandonment (rejection, loneliness) but in doing so they present as lacking substance or lack a sense of who they are.

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Category: child development, ego statesTag: Antiscript, child development, identity, please me, teenager

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