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Posted in Health, Humanity, Isolation, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Jan 4th, 2008
For a number of years the subject of forgiveness was neglected by the academic research community because it was felt that it was owned by the theological community. However, in recent years there has been a plethora of forgiveness studies by social scientists (see The Campaign for Forgiveness Research, for example) examining what perception [...]
Posted in Health, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Dec 26th, 2007
Relationship experts are well aware that there are four behaviours in particular which are very destructive. I call them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because, unless stopped, they can often signal the end. If I see all four of them in clients that I work with, I know that the future is [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion, Therapy on Dec 14th, 2007
How dangerous is secrecy?
Should every detail that a church member tells her or his minister always be kept secret? Some churches clearly think so.
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Therapy on Nov 29th, 2007
Posted in Health, Humanity, Psychology, Therapy on Nov 21st, 2007
What’s your worst nightmare? I daren’t tell you mine. It’s too embarrassing and too scary!
Sometimes we do spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about what might happen, and while some of that is understandable and natural, for some of us there comes a point where it tips over the edge and becomes [...]
Posted in Internet, Technology, Therapy on Oct 21st, 2007
I wrote this paper some time ago and decided to give it another airing here. As the internet is being increasingly used by counsellors and clients, it raises some security issues that surround the use of computers in this area.
It Wouldn’t Go Away
It was one of those things that I thought didn’t affect me. Electronic [...]
Posted in Humanity, Politics, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Oct 17th, 2007
I meet many people who are convinced that they are responsible for the whole world and everything in it. They are quite common - there really is a lot of it about.
You know, they are the kind of people who say: “I can’t do that because so-and-so wouldn’t like it …”, or, “I can’t do that [...]
Posted in Government, Health, Psychology, Therapy on Oct 11th, 2007
For a few years it felt like it was mentioned on every other radio or television program. It certainly had the feel of being flavour of the month for a long time. Now, at last, the UK government has decided to give it some official recognition to
Posted in Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Oct 10th, 2007
I am sure that if you asked a group of respectable people if they got angry, many of them would deny that they did. Although working class males are allowed to be angry, middle class males tend to want to avoid it, and it is certainly an emotion that society frowns on in women.
Despite this denial, anger [...]
Posted in Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Oct 6th, 2007
For various personal and professional reasons I have been thinking and reading a lot about anger this month. I have been reminded that anger has many faces, and that it doesn’t always announce its arrival with complete honesty. It knows a trick or two and is a master of disguise.
A lot of people don’t like [...]
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