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  • Overview of Jung’s psychology

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    Carl Jung was a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who studied with Freud until their theoretical differences brought them apart.  Jung went on to develop a unique school within psychoanalysis based on his model of the self and the methodology to work within it: a framework of symbols, dreamwork, dialogue, active imagination, and inner exploration. To…

  • Exploring the central humanistic ideas

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    The humanist tradition spans philosophy, literature, ethics, psychology and many other areas of human endeavour across the centuries. This makes it hard to define and delimit, but Sarah Bakewell does just that brilliantly in her book “Humanly possible”. — In this article, I wanted to lean on Sarah’s attempt to name the core ideas in…

  • Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic: collective healing in our complex world

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    Hegel proposed the Master/Slave thought experiment to understand human’s need for self-consciousness through the genuine recognition of (and by) others.  Hegel argues that self-consciousness is not just being alive or thinking, but about knowing yourself as a subject. Unlike Descartes, for whom thinking alone proves existence (‘I think, therefore I am’), Hegel argues that existence…

  • Are we ever free? The experience of fear and the embracing of responsibility in our work towards freedom

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    Freedom is complex.  Are we ever free? Do we want to actually be? And how do we even know we are? This article explores how true freedom is not about escaping fear and responsibility, but about embracing them The struggle to be free is the struggle to exist. We’re driven to free ourselves from our…

  • Overview of Internal Family Systems

    Overview of Internal Family Systems

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    Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic approach founded and developed by Richard Schwartz based upon a mix of influences from humanistic and psychodynamic counselling, family system therapy, systems thinking and spirituality. The below is based on No Bad Parts  and Internal Family Systems Therapy. —- The main premise of Internal Family Systems is that…

  • How School-Based Counselling Helps

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    I worked with Mick Cooper to design a poster to promote his latest piece of research. It shows the ways in which school based humanistic counselling helps young people. I found interesting that “advice” was an important process of change – if you read the paper you will also find out what aspects of the…

  • Having vs being as modes of existence

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    Erich Fromm was a humanist philosopher and psychoanalyst associated with critical theory. He blended the analysis of social and psychological factors to explore different philosophies of living. In To Have or To Be?, he examines two broad perspectives on life. — He explored how spiritual and cultural traditions have intertwined with structures of power to…

  • Games people play: A classified list of Eric Berne’s games in Transactional Analysis

    Games people play: A classified list of Eric Berne’s games in Transactional Analysis

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    This article brings together two frameworks from Transactional Analysis: “Games” from Eric Berne (Games people play) and “The Drama Triangle” from Stephen Karpman. – Our thoughts and behaviours are often guided by unconscious scripts we’re following – whether it takes us a minute to realise, or years. Uncovering those scripts – and in the process…

  • What type of psychotherapy orientation is best for what?

    What type of psychotherapy orientation is best for what?

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    This article is based on the Mick Cooper’s “Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Facts are Friendly” book compiling studies of effectiveness in counselling and psychotherapy. It is a great reference book and I am leaving most data behind (so that you buy the book, which is fantastic). What therapy is most effective for…

  • An informal study of Psychotherapeutic orientations

    An informal study of Psychotherapeutic orientations

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    I worked with Psychotherapeutic author Mick Cooper to do an informal study of psychotherapeutic orientations in the UK. Psychotherapy is complex.  When someone decides that they would like / need some therapy, they may or may not have some ideas of the type of therapist they need.  Some people may consider their particular known issue,…