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Johann Hari on Addiction

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html Click on the link for this excellent article. We have seen this in a number of places over the past few days (thank you, Brent Potter and Monica Cassani), and it deserves a wide audience. The writer’s sense at … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, civil rights, compulsive behaviour, consciousness, core conditions, criminal justice model, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, Gabor Mate, George Monbiot, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, person centred theory, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, reality, relationship, research evidence, sadness & pain, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged 12 Step model, actualising, actualizing, adaptation, adaptive behaviour, addiction, addictive behaviour, affordable counselling exeter, age of loneliness, belonging, Billie Holiday, bonding, Bruce Alexander, Carl Rogers, Carl Rogers' potatoes, cause of drug addiction, causes of drug addiction, Chasing the Scream, chemical hooks, cocaine addiction, compulsive behaviour, context, coping mechanism, coping strategies, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, criminal justice system, cultural oppression, decriminalising drugs, decriminalizing drugs, dependence, disconnection, disempowering, disempowerment, drug dependency, drug related deaths, drug related homicide, drug related murder, drug related suicide, drug use, drug use in prisoners, drug use in soldiers, drug war, drug withdrawal, EM Forster, Gabor Mate, George Monbiot, healing, heroin addiction, human connection, interconnectedness, interconnection, internal locus, Johann Hari, low cost counselling exeter, need for connection, need for relationship, nicotine patches, nicotine withdrawal, numbing, only connect, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, Partnership for a Drug free America, person centred counselling exeter, Peter Cohen, political, Portuguese drug laws, potatoes in cellar, prescription drug use, prison system, rat cocaine experiment, Rat Park, recreational drug use, relationship, Richard DeGrandpre, smoking, stopping smoking, The Cult of Pharmacology, therapeutic conditions, therapeutic process, trauma, unconditional love, UPR, Uruguay President, Vietnam War, vulnerability, war on drugs, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Bonnie Bright – Trauma and Homecoming: Finding a Sense of Place in the Space of Trauma

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/trauma-and-homecoming-finding-a-sense-of-place-in-the-space-of-trauma-by-bonnie-bright/ Click on the link to visit this fascinating and profound article by Bonnie. It’s a long read, well worth the investment of time and energy. She begins with the choice of the U’wa people in Colombia, faced with the … Continue reading →

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