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Spinning Straw – Tracy Cochran

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://parabola.org/2017/07/30/spinning-straw-by-tracy-cochran/?utm_content=buffer9bcb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Click on the link above to visit the site for Parabola Magazine for this remarkable reworking of the Brothers Grimm. It is not long since we published a piece by Tracy – but the writer stumbled upon this at … Continue reading →

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Ayanna Cruver on being stopped by police in the U.S.

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This brought tears to the writer as well. Grateful to Ayanna for posting it. It needs to be seen. Something is profoundly wrong in our societies, when this is how we impact each other. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling … Continue reading →

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Breaking News: The Cause of Schizophrenia Finally Discovered? Noel Hunter

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://psychintegrity.org/breaking-news-the-cause-of-schizophrenia-finally-discovered/ Follow the above link for Noel’s piece. It’s a long, well-written and well researched article, essential reading for anyone in our line of work. The writer too has watched with some dismay, the viral description of the Sekar et al. … Continue reading →

Social Change: Working With the Inner & Outer Dimensions of Self Organization – Justine Corrie

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pioneers-for-change/social-change-working-wit_b_8104548.html The writer stumbled upon this earlier this week, and it set a big gong vibrating for her… In our view too, these are the key elements in the cultural shifts we so urgently need to make as a species. … Continue reading →

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How Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness – Bruce Levine

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://brucelevine.net/how-societies-with-little-coercion-have-little-mental-illness/ ‘Coercion—the use of physical, legal, chemical, psychological, financial, and other forces to gain compliance—is intrinsic to our society’s employment, schooling, and parenting. However, coercion results in fear and resentment, which are fuels for miserable marriages, unhappy families, and what … Continue reading →

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Disorderly Conduct – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://charleseisenstein.net/disorderly-conduct/ Magnificent piece by Charles Eisenstein. Charles transmutes a painful personal experience into a beautiful exposition of the cultural and psychological issues it raises:- ‘the presumption that legally constituted authority should decide what is an acceptable level of safety for oneself … Continue reading →

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Two letters to Tim Bond on BACP’s proposed changes to the ethical framework – Els van Ooijen

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.nepenthe.org.uk/ethics/ The second in our series of posts on BACP’s proposed changes to its Ethical Framework. We share the concern of many therapists about the nature and direction of these changes (and BACP’s political ambitions). We do not think this … Continue reading →

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The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Another wonderful talk from Gabor Maté, this time coming in at a little under 19 minutes. We think he’s bang on, both in terms of what he says about addiction and in terms of the wider implications of this for … Continue reading →

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Hannah Linden – Under the Bridge

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://poetry-24.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/under-bridge.html Click on the link for this – powerful and moving – recently published poem by a local poet, Hannah Linden. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in abuse, childhood abuse, creativity, criminal justice model, growing up, Hannah Linden, poetry, power and powerlessness, sadness & pain, sexual violence, trauma, trust, vulnerability | Tagged abuse, abuse of power, affordable counselling exeter, childhood abuse, childhood sexual abuse, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, criminal justice system, Devon poets, growing up, Hannah Linden, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, poetry, Poetry 24, power, powerlessness, sexual abuse, sexual violence, trauma, trust, Under the Bridge, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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