More about my practice, therapy and a variety of posts.
What is Happening to Therapy?
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The background story to my way of practice
Conventional therapy is rooted in spoken language. Beginning with Freud on the couch, it was a monologue, analysed by an analyst according to pre-ordained themes. From there it developed to…
How to Respond to a Young Person in your Care once they Return from Rehab or a Clinic:
The precarious balance between caring and confronting. All parents of growing children have to find a balance between discipline and freedom. These are value-based decisions, and a familiar source of…
Sharing Secrets from Therapy: When a Parent Comes for a First Interview, what is that I am Looking for?
Three probing questions reveal parental attitudes that psychologists believe influence problems. I receive a phone call from a parent. S/he is nervous, apprehensive. A parent who phones about a problem…
Theft
I hear the child’s voice and then I see them. The mother is crisply urban. With platinum white hair expensively snipped to look boyish, her heals go clickety clack on…
Mental health
Some days I think we have all gone missing in this overkill of information and options. To use nutrition as a metaphor: if we all just ate three meals of…
On Poverty, Low Parental Education and Lack of Intelligence in Children
Do children who grow up in extreme poverty lack intelligence and imagination? A toddler sits in the sand, eyes clouded. He simply sits. Occasionally listlessly handling a pebble. That’s it.…
Letter to a Young Woman, Home from a Clinic.
Dear Samantha “First impressions counts”. My first impression as I look through the car window: Steely. Broken. Two oppositional realities. I notice a small internal movement; a sharp intake of…
Thriving
I send out a whatsapp: “I am doing a small informal survey: Would you mind giving me 2 examples as a child when you felt like “thriving”. Mine, for example…
Thriving vs. Surviving
It is a common human experience this; surviving rather than thriving. Many of us live like that: We are grateful for small islands of thriving amidst an ocean of surviving.…
Why Babies Cry and Why We Feel Lonely at Dusk:
Once upon a time, long ago, the first human was born. Of two parents, one male one female. Or should that be, one female one male. That very first human…
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