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Working with the homeless in 2020

January 1, 2020 //  by Tony White

My new years resolution for 2020? To keep working with the homeless. Why would I make such a resolution? I hope at least some of my reasons are altruistic. I like working with this group people. They are very similar population to the prison population where I worked for a number of years. Psychologically quite …

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Category: UncategorizedTag: homeless, pica, prison

The politics of diagnosis.

September 6, 2019 //  by Tony White

The problem being is the entire Australian population gets pathologized.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: ADD, diagnosis

The life of a PK

March 22, 2019 //  by Tony White

I immediately found this an interesting discussion because I am also a PK. I am a psychologist’s kid (or psychotherapists kid).

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Category: UncategorizedTag: pastors kid, transference

Contracting in psychotherapy

March 10, 2019 //  by Tony White

The problem with demand contracts is the client may just lie to you.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: contracts, psychotherapy

Drugs and danger

January 7, 2019 //  by Tony White

You can’t keep lying to a group of people and not expect them to work that out.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: drugs, rock concerts, teenagers

Working with the demon in therapy

December 29, 2018 //  by Tony White

As I said, this was the first time we had ever had significant dialogue between me and this part of her. It will be interesting to see over time what happens, especially her reaction to me.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: demon sub personality, self destruction, therapy

Death anxiety

December 29, 2018 //  by Tony White

One of the goals in trauma debriefing therapy is to reestablish this contamination in the client so they again begin to lie to themselves their potential mortality.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: contamination, death, Ego state, trauma

Workshop on the demon sub personality.

December 23, 2018 //  by Tony White

It is hoped this workshop can happen in the future. And that I can do demonstration leading on the demon in clients for people at the workshop to observe. However that means there will need to be people in the workshop who have identified this sub personality in them selves, as not all people have …

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Understanding feelings in others. Is empathy possible?

December 1, 2018 //  by Tony White

Empathy is really quite a self involved process that is about self and not the other.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: emotions, empathy, feelings

Make feels and LOC

December 1, 2018 //  by Tony White

People with an internal LOC are quite willing to have personal insight to how they may be contributing to their own problems such as their rackets and the games they may play.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: locus of control

Evidence based psychotherapy

August 22, 2018 //  by Tony White

As you can see psychodynamic therapy does quite well.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: psychotherapy, redecision, research, TA

Introjection in psychotherapy

August 17, 2018 //  by Tony White

This provides an interesting insight into introjection in this instance. She hasn’t introjected what I have said but instead introjected my voice sound and quality. Then she has applied that introjected voice to her own words.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: counselling, drugs, Ego states, introjection, Transactional analysis

Working through scared feelings.

March 11, 2018 //  by Tony White

I personally disagree with this. In my view humans are naturally communal beings and we need (are dependent) on others at least to some degree.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: Ego states, feelings, scare, shame, Transactional analysis, working through feelings

Unconscious communication in therapy

March 1, 2018 //  by Tony White

If the conscious and unconscious want different things always give the client what the unconscious wants.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: unconscious communication

The shadow

January 21, 2018 //  by Tony White

But then after halloween is over that part of us is quickly packed away again safe from our conscious.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: shadow

The suicide homicide attempt

February 21, 2017 //  by Tony White

2. If things get too bad I will kill myself and others.

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Category: suicide, UncategorizedTag: suicide

My unconscious perceptions of psychotherapy

October 20, 2016 //  by Tony White

There were three clients I was making appointments with for the next week and they were all very heavily pregnant women. That was all the dream was.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: dreams, psychotherapy

Games and enactments

October 19, 2016 //  by Tony White

A game can then be viewed as an unsophisticated attempt by the person to repair self by bringing unconscious material to the surface.

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Category: UncategorizedTag: games, Transactional analysis

Therapeutic community and who we are

July 31, 2015 //  by Tony White

Humans are naturally group like creatures. It is natural for them to form into groups. It is natural for them to form into groups and discuss things including the problems they are having both practical and psychological. Indeed it is argued by Farhad Dalal that the social or group is the most primal aspect of …

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Therapeutic community culture and the Free Child

July 29, 2015 //  by Tony White

  The Gouldings developed a method of group psychotherapy known as the marathon. This is a therapeutic experience where the members of the therapy group would live together for a period of time and are all part of a therapy group. This could last for one weekend or one week. This structure allows for the …

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Three ways of using transference in therapy

March 27, 2015 //  by Tony White

The client is then asked to respond to the therapist, who is now seen as say mother, in a way they always wanted to, but never did as a child. For instance the client may have been angry at mother but never expressed it, or they only expressed it in a passive aggressive way.

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Category: Psychotherapy, Relationship, UncategorizedTag: counter transference, psychotherapy, transference

The psychological need for violent images – Part 2

September 9, 2014 //  by Tony White

This blog post follows on from the previous one titled, “The psychological need for violent images.” In that it was proposed that humans have a natural inbuilt psychological mechanism that allows them to desensitise to offensive and distressing images. Humans will desensitise quite quickly to violent images. If one sees violence a few times then …

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Therapy of self destructiveness

June 4, 2014 //  by Tony White

One does not seek to do therapy on this aspect of the personality but one embraces it and seeks to develop some kind of coexistence with it. One embraces their depression or learns to love their panic attacks one could say. It is accepted as a normal part of their thanatos. it can’t be changed even if one wanted to.

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Category: child development, counselling, UncategorizedTag: Adapted child, child development, Free child, life script, self destruction, thanatos

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

Some therapeutic observations of the AA approach

January 13, 2014 //  by Tony White

In most counselling situations this can not occur. It may get too expensive and most often the person has to make appointments with the counsellor such that they have to wait days if not weeks to meet. Even if it is free or they can afford it most counsellors don’t really see the same client …

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Category: UncategorizedTag: alcohol, child development, Desensitization, dissociation, drugs

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

Gambling addiction vs drug addiction

August 17, 2013 //  by Tony White

The DSM-5 includes gambling addiction in the substance-related and addictive disorders along with the drug and alcohol addictions. Whilst this could be seen as a widely held belief that gambling should be included in such a category along with drugs and alcohol it does have some difficulties. Firstly, in my book I see the dependent …

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