Archive for February, 2008
Gestalt Therapy
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Gestalt Therapy excitement and growth in the human personality by Perls, Hefferline and Goodman. First published 1951 (other editions since).
This book changed my life. I discovered it in my mid-twenties and what I learned from it has stayed a significant part of my life for 25 years. The exercises in [...]That Which Doesn’t Kill Us . . . Can Leave Us Maimed
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Friedrich Nietzsche, in my humble opinion, is the most important modern philosopher, and by a very long way. It was he who spoke about the crisis of values of the modern West. And, most famously it was he who proclaimed that, “God is dead”. You owe it to yourself [...]A Blog For Abuse Survivors (and others too)
Dealing with abuse, and the issues around it, is always difficult. Difficult to deal with the emotions and difficult to assist people to heal. So I am pleased to see a blog that deals with this that I can recommend. It is Soul-Expressions-Abuse-Recovery.
This is a very personal blog. Becky, the author, [...]Sexuality and Intimacy
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I realised this past week that I had never posted on intimacy on this blog. I found this surprising. I’m not sure what prompted me - perhaps all the advertising about Valentine’s Day.
I wondered why I was reluctant to post about sexuality and I came up with two reasons.Being impatient [...]
Staying Sane and Healthy At Home
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All of my adult life I have had fairly unconventional jobs. Apart from two years where I was a teacher of adults, I haven’t been employed in the usual way - and this was working in a gaol, so that was a bit unusual too. (You can read more about [...]The Past Can Make You Ill: Three Tips to Help
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales (in Sydney, Australia where I live), such as Professor Coiera, have been looking at how people search for health information on line. Their news release is titled, “Why the web tells us what we already know”.
They found that when people are looking for health information [...]It’s Not About Success: my free report
I’ve just posted the text of a free report that I will release in a few weeks.
I have published it on its own page because it is quite long (about 17,400 words). To get to it you can click on the link highlighted in brown (on my monitor anyway) or click on the [...]
