Intimacy
I have a guest post on the Philosophy, Psychology and Real Life blog. It is called Why Intimacy is Important, Practically and Theoretically. For me intimacy is part of what makes life worthwhile. Our lives are better when we have intimacy in them I think – which is why it is important practically. If we [...]
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Image by Krosstok What’s the formula? Stay open and stay with it, and it works. This is my formula for psychotherapy and relationships in general. It is simple but demanding. Being simple it means it is easy to understand and keep in your head as a reference. I find it specific enough and general enough [...]
Image by charliehey Have you ever watched a young child wanting to tell a secret. They often announce it to a room full of people and then sometimes tell it loud enough for the other people to hear. This is funny; it is also intriguing. What is going on here? It isn’t about other people [...]
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Image by Guylaine2007 These three qualities come from Transactional Analysis (usually abbreviated to TA). (Transactional Analysis is a psychotherapy invented by Eric Berne and his friends – people such as Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward, Stephen Karpman, Claude Steiner and many others – on the West Coast of America in the 1950′s and 1960′s. The best [...]
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Image by drukmaas I think we can get more intimacy in our lives – but indirectly. When I say “indirectly” I don’t mean sneakily. To explain this strange situation I need to explain what I mean by intimacy. Our intimate moments are those where we feel that we are close to another person. We feel [...]
