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Tag Archives: Jung
Chelsea Fields on the decision to circumsize her baby son
The writer found it difficult to reach the end of this deeply moving personal account, because of the extent to which she was crying. There’s a quotation from James Hillman we tweeted the other day:- ‘..the question of evil….refers primarily … Continue reading
Posted in awakening, compassion, congruence, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, ethics, external locus, family systems, generational trauma, grief, growing up, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, James Hillman, Jung, loss, love, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, parenting, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, pregnancy, relationship, sadness & pain, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, anesthetized heart, authenticity, awakening, belonging, causing pain, Chelsea Fields, circumcision, compassion, congruence, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural attitudes to children, cultural attitudes to circumsion, dependence, disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, ethics, external locus, family systems, grief, interconnection, interdependence, internal locus, James Hillman, Jung, loss, love, low cost counselling exeter, making choices for your baby, making choices for your child, non-conforming, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, pregnancy, relationship, sadness, trauma, trust, unconscious, vulnerability, whether or not to circumcise, whether or not to circumsize, witnessing pain, witnessing suffering, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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The ‘professional’s’ role in a free society
‘It is my opinion that the professional’s role in a free society should be limited to contributing technical information men need to make their own decisions on the basis of their own values. When he pre-empts the authority to direct, … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, creativity, cultural questions, diversity, empowerment, ethics, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, non-conforming, political, power and powerlessness, regulation, values & principles
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Carl Rogers, Case Against Psychotherapy Registration, core conditions, counselling exeter, counselling registration, counselling regulation, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity in therapy, cultural diversity, deontological ethics, diversity in therapy, Eliot Freidson, Elizabeth Puttick, external locus, Farhad Dalal, Gift of Therapy, HPM, human potential movement, humanistic psychology, internal locus, Irvin Yalom, Jung, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, psychotherapy registration, psychotherapy regulation, Richard Mowbray, therapeutic diversity, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, virtue ethics, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Jung on balance and the full palette
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning … Continue reading
Posted in emotions, Jung, presence
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, balance, Carl Jung, CG Jung, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, emotions, fear, feelings, happiness, Jung, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, sadness, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Madness and Beauty in the Heart of Darkness – Drake Spaeth
https://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/05-27-15 Click on the link for (sadly) the last of Drake Spaeth’s series of posts for Saybrook, this time with some thoughts arising on the recent death of John Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose life was the subject of Sylvia … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, anti-psychotics, awakening, beauty, cognitive, communication, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conflict, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, Drake Spaeth, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, external locus, fear, growth, healing, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Joseph Campbell, Jung, kindness & compassion, meaning, Mick Cooper, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, RD Laing, resilience, sadness & pain, schizophrenia, self, shadow, therapeutic growth, violence, vulnerability
Tagged A Beautiful Mind, acceptance, activism, addictions, addictive behaviour, adversity, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, antipsychotic, authentic self, authenticity, awareness, beauty, Being-in-the-World, belonging, chaos, coercive conformity, compassion, conflict, conscious living, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural violence, death and rebirth, delusion, dependency, despair, disappointment, diversity, Drake Spaeth, eccentricity, economic privilege, embodiment, empathic connection, empathy, empowerment, ethics in therapy, existential death, existential liberation, existential meaning, existential renewal, existential therapy, expression of sexuality, external locus, fear, fragmentation of self, game theory, gender expression, global human conflict, growth, healing, heart centred living, heart connection, heart-centered living, human connection, humanistic, individuation, initiation, inner peace, insanity, integration, intentional choice, intentionality, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, intuition, intuitive connection, intuitive insight, intuitive relationship, isolation, Jason Dias, John Forbes Nash, John Nash, Joseph Campbell, Jung, Louis Hoffman, low cost counselling exeter, mental health model, mental illness, mental illness model, Mick Cooper, myth of normal, New Existentialists, non conformity, othering, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paranoid schizophrenia, person centred counselling exeter, personal demons, personal freedom, personhood, Prince Ea, psychiatric model, Psychosis, R.D. Laing, racial violence, radical valuing, RD Laing, rebirth, relational connection, relationship, religious bigotry, Ronnie Laing, Sarah Kass, Saybrook University, search for meaning, self awareness, self medication, selfhood, separation, shadow, social justice, societal oppression, societal violence, socioeconomic inequality, struggle, suffering, Sylvia Nasar, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, transformation, Transpersonal, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Jung on shame
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.” C.G. Jung Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in emotions, Jung, shame, shaming
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Jung, Jung on shame, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, shame, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Irvin Yalom on spontaneity and uniqueness in therapy
‘At its very core, the flow of therapy should be spontaneous, forever following unanticipated riverbeds; it is grotesquely distorted by being packaged into a formula that enables inexperienced, inadequately trained therapists (or computers) to deliver a uniform course of therapy. … Continue reading
Posted in BACP, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, diversity, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, growth, healing, internal locus of evaluation, Jung, medical model, non-conforming, non-directive counselling, perception, person centred, person centred theory, political, presence, psychiatry, regulation, relationship, research evidence, risk, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, values & principles, working with clients, Yalom
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, best practice in therapy, coercive conformity, compliance, conformity, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, deontological, deontological ethics, diversity in therapy, encounter, ethics versus compliance, existential therapy, Farhad Dalal, Gift of Therapy, healing, humanistic therapy, idiosyncratic therapy, Irvin Yalom, Jung, low cost counselling exeter, new therapy for each client, new therapy for each patient, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, presence, protocol therapy, psychiatric model, regulation of therapy, relationship, risk in therapy, social control, standardised therapy, standardized therapy, therapeutic language, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, therapist spontaneity, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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