'Psychological Health' Category
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A couple of posts ago I asked for questions - and I sure got one. Here is a part of it: “I’d like to know what you know about abused and abuser, masochist and sadist. The thing that most interests me, is the possibility of one person understanding […]Three Steps to a New Life
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I’d like to introduce you to a very general process for dealing with psychological problems. As far as I have been able to find out it was first formulated by Dr Fabian Rouke in the 1950’s. It is called the “onion skin model” of the self, it has three […]Add Joy to Your Life by Playing
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Play Is Strange A friend of mine is an amateur musical production.[It is of a Gilbert and Sullivan era musical called “Florodora” - the first British musical to make it big on Broadway. It is running for the next two weeks. All those reading this who are near to Erskineville, Sydney, […]
How to Divorce Your Parents
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I can remember that particular tone in my mother’s voice when she told me to clean up my room. Perhaps you can too. And yet she hasn’t said that to me for more than thirty years. Perhaps your parents are even dead. And yet when we remember […]Our Thoughts Are Powerful, But Not All-Powerful
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Our thoughts can influence our energy level - how good we feel. To explain what I mean I’d like to tell you a story.The story is about two friends who will we call Jack and Jill. Jack started business a business a few months ago. He’s quite unclear what […]Self-Improvement? or what is the self and what would improvement mean?
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What is the self? A friend of mine went to a talk by a Buddhist monk. His question about self-improvement was: finally, doesn’t it come down to a hostility to the self? That is, self-improvement means judging ourselves as inadequate: that we need to be something other […]Finding Your Archetype for Joy
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What is an archetype? An archetype is a personal energy that is expressed authentically in a social role. For me this is very exciting. It means we can be authentically who we are in our relationships. Many psychotherapies seem to believe that the conflict between the individual and society is inevitable. (Freud […]
