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self harm

Working with the rebellious person

May 8, 2018 //  by Tony White

Listening to a person talk about how they cut self is stress producing for most people including therapists. The therapist needs to be clear they do not fall into subtly pressuring the client into making the contract due to their own anxieties.

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Category: self harm, teenagerTag: rebellious child, self harm, teenager, Transactional analysis

The therapist’s role in bringing up sensitive topics in therapy

May 5, 2018 //  by Tony White

If one allows the client to avoid it for long periods of time and addresses it in a very a tepid way that may empower the shame.

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Category: AnorexiaTag: Anorexia, no suicide contract, self harm, shame, therapy

Self harm and suicide

November 3, 2015 //  by Tony White

However it is not uncommon for people to confuse the two. For instance if a mother see’s her daughter is cutting self it is understandable how she can then conclude that the daughter is suicidal. However this is not accurate.

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Category: self harm, suicideTag: self harm, suicide

Halloween and violent fantasy

October 31, 2015 //  by Tony White

Halloween make up, like these pictures, allows the teenage girl to release her sublimated urges to self harm, leading to a healthy outcome.

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Category: child development, self harm, teenagerTag: Ego states, self harm, violent

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

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