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magical thinking

Identification – Post 2

March 30, 2020 //  by Tony White

Identification allows for humans to have their own vicarious experiences Definition of vicarious experience –  1. Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another 2. Experienced or realised through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another Both of these talk of imagination and thus we could say this process works …

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Category: epi script, self harm, teenagerTag: epi script, identification, magical thinking, ugly parent syndrome, vicarious experience

Confronting magical thinking about suicide

April 20, 2018 //  by Tony White

The magical thinking about suicide is that it can result in a relief from one’s pain.

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Category: suicideTag: Ego states, magical thinking, suicide, Transactional analysis

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

The role of magical thinking in suicide risk assessment

July 11, 2015 //  by Tony White

Obviously if one is doing a suicide risk assessment they need to assess how much A1 thinking is going on for the person and how influential it is as the executive of the personality. The more it is the higher the imminent risk of suicide.

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Category: child development, suicideTag: adult ego state, magical thinking, Suicide risk assessment

Getting over it and A1 thinking

February 24, 2015 //  by Tony White

A1 Black and white thinking. She is a bad person for hurting me. Behaviour can be the person.

A2 thinking can understand that all people are good and some just have unproductive behaviour or behaviour that hurts others. Behaviour is bad not the person.

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Category: Child ego state, parenting, PsychotherapyTag: counselling, forgiveness, fundamentalist thinking, magical thinking

Hurried child and OCD

February 16, 2015 //  by Tony White

The condition of OCD can sometimes result from being raised in a hurried child environment as a youngster. The child develops chronic anxiety and this manifests as OCD in adulthood. The anxiety residing in the person becomes expressed in some kind of obsessions and compulsions as they grow older.

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Category: Dependency, PsychotherapyTag: anxiety, magical thinking, OCD

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