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Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Productivity, Psychology, Therapy on Jun 4th, 2009
There was a pile of dog poo on the pavement.
As they walked to work, four men trod in it and messed up their shoes.
The first man felt very sad. He looked at the mess and smelled the smell and said to himself: “You know, this just about sums me up. This always happens [...]
Posted in Health, Mortality, Psychology, Therapy on May 28th, 2009
Sometimes (perhaps especially when on holiday) we often long for an anxiety-free existence. However, in my book, that would be a bad thing. Human beings have powerful emotional systems and anxiety is a natural feeling that arises in response to stress. It is part of the natural flight-or-fight response that have enabled the human race [...]
Posted in Psychology, Therapy on May 26th, 2008
I read this morning of yet another person claiming to be a therapist who had had sex with his clients. Carmine Baffa from Atlanta persuaded as many as eight people to have sex with him while claiming it was part of their treatment. He bought a Ph.D. online and claimed to be a [...]
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 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 peopleif they got angry, many of them woulddeny 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 [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Language, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Sep 30th, 2007
A friend of mine was attacked last week. She, a 24 year old woman, was standing in the driveway in front of her house in the afternoon chatting to a neighbour. A 55 year old disabled woman from across the square in a middle-class suburb, came towards her shouting abuse, then grabbed hold [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Aug 11th, 2007
Are you a seagull?
Albert Ellis, a cognitive therapist, cited by the American Psychological Association in 2003 as the second most influential psychologist in the twentieth century, used to argue that most people had strong tendencies to be like seagulls. As a psychotherapist he was quite unusual in his methods and often did and said [...]
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