The magical thinking about suicide is that it can result in a relief from one’s pain. Read more »
Big feelings and little feelings
Of course big feelings do occur in childhood, sometimes many of them occur and many are not dealt with or resolved as the child cannot articulate its need to do so Read more »
Teenage conventional thinking
Recent research on what teenagers see as, “What makes a good person”. They were asked to rate the qualities of people who were good people. This indicates teenagers are a conventional group of people in these views. But this seems […] Read more »
Wall of trivia
The wall of trivia allows for two people to keep an emotional distance from each other. Read more »
Treatment of the passive aggressive personality
Provide lots of positive stokes to the PA and work on how they may filter the strokes. Read more »
Developmental problems for the child from the affluent family
The child from the wealthy family is more likely to be left with the question - Who am I? Read more »
Features of rackets
Anger is a distancing emotion it pushes people apart. When people want distance in a relationship anger can be used to achieve this Read more »
Working through scared feelings.
I personally disagree with this. In my view humans are naturally communal beings and we need (are dependent) on others at least to some degree. Read more »
Aversion therapy & implied communication in therapy
The goal is to stop the drug use but in the very nature of the treatment one is giving permission to take drugs. Same in the Redecision therapy I use Read more »
Unconscious communication in therapy
If the conscious and unconscious want different things always give the client what the unconscious wants. Read more »