I lifted the lid of the photocopier only to find a page already there, as you do. On the page was a graph illustrating the relationship between pressure and ability to cope, and the unusual word rustout. Under pressure to copy something else, I coped by binning it.
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
Rust
Posted in For patients, Review, tagged America, burnout, civilization, DSM, mental health, mental illness, police, psychology, reality, relationships, Russia, stress on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Parenting
Posted in For therapists, tagged BABCP, CBT, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychology, psychotherapy, reality, therapy, training, UKCP on October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Parents never really understand, do they? They just go about their business. But anything could happen. It’s as if they don’t realize how important they are. And then, later, it’s as if they don’t realize how unimportant they are.
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Timbuctoo
Posted in For patients, Research, Review, tagged philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, reality, science, therapy on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Where is Timbuctoo, I wonder, that opulent city of legend, it’s shaded squares alight with the vivid yellow blossom of a thousand Jacaranda trees? In far away China, I suppose. But how shall I convince you? Perhaps I will take you on a journey of discovery.
Decline
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Research, Review, tagged evidence, marketing, mental health, mental illness, reality, Research, science on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Anon.
Posted in CBT, For therapists, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged anonymity, blogging, Carl Rogers, CBT, conguence, counseling, counselling, delusion, entrapment, HPC, identity, mental health, mental illness, paradox, psychodynamic, psychotherapy, R.D. Laing, reality, terminology, therapy, UKCP, victim on October 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ever since I started writing here, I have thought of myself as an anonymous blogger. That’s not the case at all, it turns out, as two separate things that happened to me last week revealed. The two experiences illuminated opposite sides of what it means to have an identity, and why identity is important for psychotherapists.
Cake
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, tagged amnesia, case study, CBT, childhood, counseling, counselling, detachment, distress, entrapment, escape, family, feelings, Freud, koan, love, mental health, mental illness, paradox, proverb, psychiatry, psychodynamic, psychology, psychotherapy, reality, schizophrenia, therapy, transference, victim, zen on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to the proverb:
You can’t have your cake and eat it.
According to another proverb:
There’s no such word as “can’t”.



