Joy
Psychotherapy is sometimes accused of being focused on illness. That it doesn’t appreciate the whole of life because it has developed from treating sick people rather than healthy people. I think this is partly unfair. Medical doctors don’t get criticised for focusing on sick people and I think it denigrates the compassion that can be [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is about what I think of as my bottom line: that compassion and joy (or better yet, compassionate-joyfulness) are good in themselves. They are what justify other things rather than being justified by other things. I also talk about how some [...]
Continue reading about Values, Technology and the Bottom Line: compassion and joy
Image by Steve Keys Life flows and changes – and can be unpredictable too! People like to classify and label. We like to try and fix things in time and place – often finding the unpredictable threatening and change difficult. When this contrast is seen it is common to advocate going with life – flowing [...]
