othing has actually changed in Australians. All that has changed is the diagnosis to include more people. Read more »
The executive of the personality
Most efforts are directed at the the executive of the personality, the Child, but still a significant amount of effort is directed at the Parent and Adult influencing the Child’s direction. Read more »
Birth order and personality
Three children is the maximum that one parent can emotionally cover. After that sub groupings amongst siblings will form. Read more »
The prison psychotherapist
Never a dull moment when working in a prison and great training for one’s diagnostic skills of some quite unusual forms of psychopathology. Read more »
Process for bereavement in suicide of a loved one
We don’t like it but we can understand the death of a loved one by accident or illness. However the death of a loved one by suicide leaves us more puzzled. Read more »
Grief is a finite process
Indeed the DSM 5 says if there is intense sorrow and emotional pain for a loved one after 12 months then that is classed as complicated bereavement, a neurotic condition. Read more »
Suicide attempt caught on video
Some fifteen years later he was executed by lethal injection. So he finally did complete the suicide attempt and he got the state to kill him. Read more »
The war on drugs! What war.
So if there is a war, as we are told, then the enemy is not doing very well. Read more »
Dependent drug use and giving up
Most people entering counselling will be most surprised by this and are not expecting the drug counsellor to be of this mind at all. Read more »
The anti smoking lobby prohibitionists
But this time is is prohibition by stealth, they have not sought to have tobacco made illegal but they have sought to make tobacco prohibitively expensive. Read more »