If you are working with a suicidal person and their family then you know that at least some members will be supportive of the suicide from their Free Child point of view. Read more »
Confronting magical thinking about suicide
The magical thinking about suicide is that it can result in a relief from one’s pain. 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 »
The universality of games
If this is true, that could explain why psychological games are such an integral part of the human psyche. Why they are so universal in human relationships. Read more »
Magical thinking about death
It would seem prudent for any therapist to enquire of the pre-suicide fantasy a person may have to assess the level of magical thinking present. Read more »
The psychodynamics of phobias
As a result we can see what was originally a phobia, upon closer examination is not a phobia. It is about what the person feels he can’t control or what he desires in his personality. Read more »
Three alternate responses to transference
2. Reparenting or relational. Instead of explaining the transactions, the therapist invites the client to express the anger at the therapist directly. Read more »
Reparenting today
If one can get beyond all the negativity about the Schiffs and begin to use these ideas in working with non psychotics they provide interesting treatment options and approaches. Read more »
Violence and personality
This explanation could go some of the way to answering why those who use physical violence in relationships are so hard to engage in treatment programmes. They perceive, feel and experience the use of such violence as a natural, Free Child, ego syntonic thing to do. Read more »
Halloween and violent fantasy
Halloween make up, like these pictures, allows the teenage girl to release her sublimated urges to self harm, leading to a healthy outcome. Read more »