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Personality

Two types or levels of life script change

April 1, 2020 //  by Tony White

In psychotherapy clients can learn to improve their neurosis For Maria To change the life script theme, is what Willem Reich would call character change (see my book titled The Treatment of Character). This is not commonly done in therapy. I would give a rough estimate of 20% of clients or less top this type …

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Category: life script, Personality, PsychotherapyTag: cure, life script theme, personality

Identification – Post 1

March 29, 2020 //  by Tony White

Human identity is a fragile thing. Who am I? is a question we all ask and how we get our answer can depend on a lot of things.  Identification is a psychological process that we all engage in, some more than others. Probably all parents identity with their own children to some degree. In their …

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Category: PersonalityTag: Ego states, identification

Schizoid personality type

July 8, 2019 //  by Tony White

I would suggest there are two discrete sub groups in this personality type

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Category: PersonalityTag: life position, personality type, schizoid, Transactional analysis

Demon subpersonality in nightmares

June 5, 2019 //  by Tony White

I have suggested a different approach to those listed above to dealing with the demon and that is to engage with it in the relational.

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Category: Personality, PsychotherapyTag: demon, nightmares

Mother and child relationships

August 10, 2018 //  by Tony White

Mothers and fathers can generally treat their various children in a similar ways and one could even say equally, but they are not going to feel the same about each of them.

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Category: PersonalityTag: children, Parenting

Desensitisation and hyper sensitisation

June 17, 2018 //  by Tony White

However it also works the other way. If we are in an environment where we have little confrontational input then the Free Child will assume that is going to continue and it will come out more and more so we become hyper sensitised.

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Category: PersonalityTag: personality

Treatment of the passive aggressive personality

April 2, 2018 //  by Tony White

Provide lots of positive stokes to the PA and work on how they may filter the strokes.

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Category: PersonalityTag: passive aggressive personality

The universality of games

October 9, 2016 //  by Tony White

If this is true, that could explain why psychological games are such an integral part of the human psyche. Why they are so universal in human relationships.

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Category: Personality, TheoryTag: Ego states, games

Magical thinking about death

August 7, 2016 //  by Tony White

It would seem prudent for any therapist to enquire of the pre-suicide fantasy a person may have to assess the level of magical thinking present.

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Category: Personality, suicideTag: Ego states, magical thinking

Homicide as a form of suicide

July 30, 2016 //  by Tony White

These people put themselves in a position where it was highly likely they would end up killed either by their own hand or by someone else’s hand.

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Category: Personality, suicideTag: homicide, personality, suicide

The psychodynamics of phobias

June 28, 2016 //  by Tony White

As a result we can see what was originally a phobia, upon closer examination is not a phobia. It is about what the person feels he can’t control or what he desires in his personality.

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Category: Personality, suicideTag: Ego states, fear of falling

Treating dissociation in group therapy

June 22, 2016 //  by Tony White

It is harder to maintain the split in the personality and the dissociation is treated.

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Category: Child ego state, PersonalityTag: dissociation, split in personality

Deliberate suicide risk

June 20, 2016 //  by Tony White

There needs to be a change in the current legislation which allows for a category of suicidal person not to be reported in a mandatory way. If this should happen then this group of every unhappy people who are feeling very alone are not made to feel more alone but the current laws of this country.

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Category: Personality, Psychotherapy, suicideTag: suicide risk

The need of individualism in therapy

March 13, 2016 //  by Tony White

The redecision work brings a sense of more clarity to the work with a discrete beginning and end and also to the two participants involved here (therapist and client). It allows them to experience a sense of “I” in the therapy.

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Category: Personality, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: relationship, transference

Aspects of psychological games

January 25, 2016 //  by Tony White

A psychological game is a repetitive, unconscious pattern of self destructive behaviour played out in a relationship.

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Category: Personality, RelationshipTag: psychological games, Transactional analysis

Integrating one’s suicidality

January 2, 2016 //  by Tony White

For example the passive aggressive person often has unintegrated anger. They dislike their anger, so they reject it, but it keeps coming back in their communications with others in a passive form.

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Category: Personality, suicideTag: integration, suicide

Causes of depression

December 16, 2015 //  by Tony White

This is not only adding one extra cause of depression to the list but provides a different view of the nature and cause of depression. It represents a different philosophical view of human nature that is based on personal empowerment.

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Category: Personality, PsychotherapyTag: depression, ego states.

Violence and personality

November 5, 2015 //  by Tony White

This explanation could go some of the way to answering why those who use physical violence in relationships are so hard to engage in treatment programmes. They perceive, feel and experience the use of such violence as a natural, Free Child, ego syntonic thing to do.

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Category: child development, PersonalityTag: child development, Ego states, violence

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

Fantasy stage of child development

September 27, 2015 //  by Tony White

This part of the personality is engaged with things like the Harry Potter stories. It can also be found in Batman with characters like the Penguin and the Joker. They are presented as mischievous, irreverent and yet appealing characters.

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Category: child development, PersonalityTag: child development, Ego states, Transactional analysis

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

Introjection in therapy

September 4, 2015 //  by Tony White

Introjection involves a person ingesting or taking in the other person’s personality into their Parent ego state such that it becomes part of them.

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Category: Personality, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: introjection, therapy, Transactional analysis

The therapist and who I am

August 26, 2015 //  by Tony White

It’s like the two person psychology and the idea of co creation they are based on a philosophy of no individual personal power. One isn’t who they are as an individual, instead one just becomes part of relationship and is powerless to be the core of who they are.

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Category: Personality, Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: individuation, therapy, who am I?

Suicide decisions

June 22, 2015 //  by Tony White

#4 can include ‘death by cop’, some of those on death row, associating with very violent people such as in organised crime, non compliance to medical advice with life threatening conditions, voluntarily entering a war zone.

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Category: Personality, suicideTag: accident, homicide, manipulation, suicide

Games children play – Happy to help

June 15, 2015 //  by Tony White

Sometimes it is the only position left in the family. As a new child enters the family and grows into it he has to find where he fits. The parents have the Parent and Adult ego states covered and a sibling may have the outspoken, demanding position taken so the ‘happy to help’ good child position is the only one left.

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Category: child development, parenting, PersonalityTag: anxiety, child development, conforming child, family structure

The psychology of touch avoidance

June 11, 2015 //  by Tony White

Around the age of 4 years children are working out if they perceive self as male or female. This is not related to their sexual anatomy. Instead it is about their psychological perception of self.

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Category: identity, intimacy, PersonalityTag: homosexuality, sexual identity, touch

Paranoid personality treatment planning

March 7, 2015 //  by Tony White

The paranoid wont respect the therapist (see them as having a potency) unless they prove themselves to be a good thinker, that can at least match the paranoid in this way.

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Category: Addiction, oral stage, PersonalityTag: addiction, layered feelings, paranoid personality

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

Psychological strokes

October 12, 2014 //  by Tony White

Transactional analysis theory of strokes is central to the basics of the theory

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Category: child development, parenting, PersonalityTag: negative strokes, strokes, Transactional analysis

Please me driver

October 4, 2014 //  by Tony White

Please me driver and personality

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Category: child development, PersonalityTag: compliance, driver, please me

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