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Theory

Mature love, immature love and the teenager

October 25, 2020 //  by Tony White

Research into adolescent development has described the process that the young teenager uses to develop a mature sense of love. When the teenager enters into early adolescence they begin to have romantic and love feelings for another person for the first time in their life. This has been described as learning how to develop a …

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Category: teenager, TheoryTag: Ego states, immature love, love, Transactional analysis

Redecision therapy reconsidered

February 2, 2018 //  by Tony White

An internal LOC is a empowering position. It is saying to the person, you can take charge and change your life. You are the one in control of your life script, feelings and so forth.

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Category: TheoryTag: redecision therapy

Listening to the unconscious in self

March 22, 2017 //  by Tony White

In working with enactments the therapist must seek to become aware of their unconscious and dissociated parts of self.

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Category: TheoryTag: enactment, games, unconscious

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 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

Drivers & life script

October 4, 2014 //  by Tony White

Characteristics of drivers in the life script

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Category: Personality, TheoryTag: Drivers, life script, Transactional analysis

Sleepy as part of the Free Child

June 3, 2014 //  by Tony White

It should be noted that the third muse, sleepy, is a pull to nonlife, it is not a pull towards death. These people are not suicidal in the usual sense of the word.

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Category: child development, counselling, Psychotherapy, TheoryTag: counselling, Free child, nonlife

Psychotherapy & those who don’t fit

May 29, 2014 //  by Tony White

People are a diverse group. Maybe our psychological theories need to reflect that more so

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Category: Psychotherapy, society values, TheoryTag: change, eros, freud, hope, psychotherapy

Driver analysis and the life script

May 18, 2014 //  by Tony White

The final script payoff is of particular note. As people move into their 40s, 50s and 60s the final script payoff becomes much more obvious. We all have a life script and are all heading down that path through life to its inevitable conclusion.

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Category: TheoryTag: driver, life script, personality, rackets, Transactional analysis

Idealization and introjection

May 16, 2014 //  by Tony White

This also highlights the process of hero worship as a psychological phenomena and how it influences our personality development.

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Category: child development, Parent ego state, TheoryTag: child development, hero worship, idealisation, introjection, parent ego state

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

Curing alcoholism – switch the addiction

May 10, 2014 //  by Tony White

Where mother’s injunction says “Don’t leave me!” Synanon says “Stay here instead.” (p.185-186). He also says elsewhere, “Curing an addict is the easiest thing in the world – if.

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Category: Alcoholic, counselling, Psychotherapy, Theory, UncategorizedTag: addiction, alcohol, attachment, dependency, drug, mother

Stroke deprivation

December 29, 2013 //  by Tony White

As Eric Berne said, “A stroke is a unit of attention” and one can have positive strokes and negative strokes. As a therapist it is easy to forget the importance of strokes and the important therapeutic role they can play. The importance of them is no better demonstrated than by looking at a whole discipline …

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Category: Theory, UncategorizedTag: child, depression, stroke deprivation, strokes, therapy

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