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Free child

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

Suicide and family relationships

May 10, 2018 //  by Tony White

If you are working with a suicidal person and their family then you know that at least some members will be supportive of the suicide from their Free Child point of view.

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Category: suicideTag: Ego states, family, Free child, suicide

Adolescence, anger and what to do – part 2.

September 28, 2015 //  by Tony White

One deals with the anger problem by not talking about it, which may seem a little odd.

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Category: Anorexia, ego states, familyTag: Free child, rebellious child, teenager

The Doctor of Love

July 4, 2015 //  by Tony White

They don’t fall in love with the therapist, instead they fall in love with a shadow of a person where they fill in the gaps with positive personality features.

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Category: Psychotherapy, RelationshipTag: Free child, relationships, therapy, transference

Christmas leisure time

December 24, 2014 //  by Tony White

The teenager is meant to learn how to make wise use of his leisure time. This is psychologically important because it reflects the development of the Free Child ego state in the personality.

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Category: Social development, society values, teenagerTag: Free child, leisure, teenager

Child psychotherapy – competition

September 25, 2014 //  by Tony White

This is one of those articles where you begin writing something and end up writing about something completely different. I was going to write about children and black and white thinking but ended up writing about a recent sessions I did with two children and their mother.

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Category: counselling, ego states, Life position, parentingTag: Child psychotherapy, competition, Free child, Parenting

Intimacy ambivalence

July 3, 2014 //  by Tony White

The problem with experiencing emotional intimacy with another is that it also frightens people.

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Category: Dependency, intimacy, RelationshipTag: closeness, Free child, intimacy, relationships

Self harm in a wider context

June 11, 2014 //  by Tony White

This allows the Free Child to again be re-experienced instead of cut off and thus one gains a sense of reconnection or wholeness in the personality. Unfortunately it’s only temporary. The intense stimuli can be cutting self with a razor blade, some sexual experiences or engaging in high risk behaviour.

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Category: dissociationTag: desensitisation, dissociation, Free child, self harm

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

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

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

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