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Psychotherapy

Silence and the unconscious – Part 2

July 26, 2021 //  by Tony White

In silence between therapist and client we see how transactions (non silence) can drag the client’s psychological energy from the unconscious into the conscious This diagram shows of how Freud conceived of the conscious and unconscious. In the human psyche there is a little bit of conscious at the top but most of it is …

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Category: communication, counselling, PsychotherapyTag: conscious and silence, psychotheraoy and silence, unconscious

Silence in psychotherapy

July 24, 2021 //  by Tony White

Over the years there has been much written about silence in psychotherapy and most of the time in these articles and books silence means the absence of speech (Ehrenhaus 1988). A time when the client and therapist are not speaking to each other is defined as silence in psychotherapy. However to me this is not …

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Category: communication, PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy, silence in therapy, Transactional analysis

Regression – defence mechanism & natural human process

May 1, 2020 //  by Tony White

The redecision therapy use of regression   Regression is the return to an earlier childhood phase of a persons psychological development. It can be both a defence mechanism and a natural human process. As a defence mechanism when a person feels anxiety they cope with it by again feeling and thinking like they were a …

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Category: child development, Child ego state, PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy, regression, symbiosis

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

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

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

The client’s chair in the therapy room.

February 23, 2019 //  by Tony White

I have always said that a therapist’s room must be a bit beige, no high fashion and no dramatic statements.

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: client chair, therapy

Is it OK for a therapist to be proud of a client’s achievements?

February 18, 2019 //  by Tony White

Then I wondered if that is OK to say to a client. I wondered if it was a bit paternalistic

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: feelings in therapy, pride, therapy

Therapist self versus the real self

January 28, 2019 //  by Tony White

Also if the therapy and therapist is overly sensitive and gentle then the client will tend to hyper sensitise and become ‘worse’ in that sense

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: Ego states, Free child, resilience

Hypnotic induction and ulterior transactions

July 14, 2018 //  by Tony White

The importance of emotional catharsis in psychotherapy has been known since the time of Freud. Maybe there are two factors involved in this observation. Yes the expression of feelings can be psychologically beneficial for the client but also the client picks up hypnotic inductions at the same time.

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: adult ego state, child ego state, hypnosis, life script

Opposites in the human mind

May 13, 2018 //  by Tony White

People in their desire to be more in control, end up being more out of control. Paradoxically the more you let self be out of control, the more in control of self you will actually be.

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: personality

Aversion therapy & implied communication in therapy

March 9, 2018 //  by Tony White

The goal is to stop the drug use but in the very nature of the treatment one is giving permission to take drugs. Same in the Redecision therapy I use

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: Aversion therapy, implied communication, psychotherapy

Relational contact in the Parent interview

August 14, 2017 //  by Tony White

Again it will lead to a sense of feeling heard and feeling some level of relationship building with another person.

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy

Assimilative psychotherapy

February 2, 2017 //  by Tony White

At some point one needs to switch from rejecting this part of self to an integration of it.

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Category: PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy

The executive of the personality

January 15, 2017 //  by Tony White

Most efforts are directed at the the executive of the personality, the Child, but still a significant amount of effort is directed at the Parent and Adult influencing the Child’s direction.

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Category: Psychotherapy, TheoryTag: child development, exectutive of personality

The prison psychotherapist

January 3, 2017 //  by Tony White

Never a dull moment when working in a prison and great training for one’s diagnostic skills of some quite unusual forms of psychopathology.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: depression, prison, psychotherapy

The vagaries of psychotherapy

October 13, 2016 //  by Tony White

Eventually he solves his own problem and has a plan for how to deal with it in the future. I have said very little and in essence been a spectator to his own processing and working it out for himself.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy

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

Gallows transaction – Part 2

March 25, 2016 //  by Tony White

I do know people like Bob Goulding always said there needs to be a good deal of laughter in therapy. Maybe he was saying this so as to reduce the gallows transaction effect.

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Category: Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: gallows transaction, psychotherapy

Gallows transaction

March 24, 2016 //  by Tony White

Games allow a person to further their life script. It is the way a person progresses along the path of the life script to its inevitable conclusion.

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Category: Psychotherapy, self harmTag: game, suicide

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

Three alternate responses to transference

February 27, 2016 //  by Tony White

2. Reparenting or relational. Instead of explaining the transactions, the therapist invites the client to express the anger at the therapist directly.

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Category: Marriage, PsychotherapyTag: Ego states, therapy, transference

Reparenting today

February 21, 2016 //  by Tony White

If one can get beyond all the negativity about the Schiffs and begin to use these ideas in working with non psychotics they provide interesting treatment options and approaches.

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Category: parenting, PsychotherapyTag: cathexis, Ego states, Transactional analysis

Parallel process

February 14, 2016 //  by Tony White

One explanation for parallel process is empathy gone wrong.

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Category: Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: parallel process, psychotherapy

Self harm motives

January 19, 2016 //  by Tony White

In my view it is better to view self harm as a fluid, changing form of psychopathology rather than a static one reason form of pathology.

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Category: Psychotherapy, self harm

The work life of a psychotherapist

January 4, 2016 //  by Tony White

We have all our fancy theories and techniques but for this type of client it’s just that simple. The person feels a connection with the therapist and that is what really counts.

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Category: counselling, PsychotherapyTag: confidentiality, psychology, psychotherapy

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.

The price of privacy

December 5, 2015 //  by Tony White

As a general rule, In Australia, police do not have the powers to require health professionals to provide them with information about a client.

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Category: Psychotherapy, society valuesTag: bonnie and clyde, confidentiality, therapy

Odd psychotherapy

November 27, 2015 //  by Tony White

“When I phone you for an appointment I usually feel quite anxious and despairing. As soon as I have made the appointment it all goes away and I feel fine. Then I think I don’t need to go and see you.”

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Category: Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: reparenting, Transactional analysis, winnicott

Responding to client praise.

September 30, 2015 //  by Tony White

Psychological change is a very personal and intimate thing that can touch the very core of who we are. If a client reaches out to a therapist and seeks to acknowledge their role in what has been a very personal experience for them, maybe it is a discount not to do so

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Category: Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: praise, psychotherapy, values in therapy.

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