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experimentation

Fantasy as a defence mechanism

November 22, 2015 //  by Tony White

Movies can be used as a form of fantasy defence. The observer does more than just watch the movie but feels they exist in it.

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Category: Child ego state, experimentationTag: defence mechanism, fantasy

Adolescence, anger and what to do

October 12, 2015 //  by Tony White

Behind the fun loving rule breakers are a group with quite conventional views who are quite conforming to their peers. More than the average adult.

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Category: child development, experimentationTag: anger, love, teenager

To go, where no man has gone before

November 4, 2014 //  by Tony White

It seems people like the whale sitter are the sign of a healthy society. A sign there are people in our society who will – Go where no man has gone before!

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Category: experimentation, Social development, society valuesTag: adventure, whale

Teenagers, death and dying

October 25, 2014 //  by Tony White

Even in death, suicide and murder there is still a childlike innocence, because they are still childlike thinkers to some degree.

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Category: experimentation, suicide, teenagerTag: murder, suicide, teen killers

Psychotherapy of the antiscript stage of development

June 19, 2014 //  by Tony White

This is important from a therapeutic point of view in that the therapist is meant to guide the person to firstly understand the question they are asking and secondly assisting the person to gain some kind of answer to it.

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Category: child development, experimentation, PsychotherapyTag: Antiscript, logotherapy, psychotherapy

Testing in relationships

June 9, 2014 //  by Tony White

The same testing behaviour can happen in the therapeutic relationship. Any client is already in a vulnerable and emotionally open position in therapy. Or at least that is what will have to happen soon for the person to benefit from the therapy, or little will be achieved.

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Category: experimentation, intimacy, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: emotional intimacy, psychotherapy, relationships, Transactional analysis

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

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