Tag Archives: pathologising distress

Laura Delano on Feeling your feelings, empathy, compassion – & the shrink

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the above link to visit Laura’s Facebook page, for this moving, accurate, important post. We work outside the ‘mental health’/psychiatric system and terminology here. We choose our therapists for their willingness to do their own work and their … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, acceptance, actualizing tendency, autonomy, awakening, civil rights, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, compassion, consent, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, DSM, emotions, empathy, equality, ethics, fear, grief, growth, healing, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, Laura Delano, medical model, non-conforming, non-directive counselling, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, resilience, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, trust, values & principles, violence, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged abuse, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, aliveness, authentic being, authenticity, awareness, belonging, big feelings, biomedical model, biomedical reductionism, blaming, carrying collective shadow, carrying shadow for others, coercive conformity, coercive drug treatment, coercive psychiatric treatment, collective shadow, compassion based relating, compassionate encounter, conditions of worth, conformity, connecting in relationship, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, crying frequently, cultural shadow, desecration, discrimination, disease and disorder model, embodied wisdom, embodiment, emotional awareness, emotional connection, emotions as wisdom, encounter, existential meaning, expanding awareness, experiencing anger, experiencing despair, experiencing grief, experiencing joy, external locus, fear, fear as motivating emotion, fear based behaviour, fear based paradigm, fear of self, fear of your own power, grieving process, holding sacred space, immanence, insecurity, intense emotion, intense emotional states, interbeing, interconnectedness, interconnection, intolerance, labelling people, lack of awareness, Laura Delano, loneliness, low cost counselling exeter, meaning, medical model, medical reductionism, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, mental health labelling, mental illness, mirroring, modelling compassion, modelling love based relationship, modelling ways of being, mourning process, mystification, neglect, non-conforming, nothing is wrong with you, oppression, organismic experiencing, othering, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising distress, pathologising emotion, pathologising feeling, pathologizing distress, pathologizing emotion, pathologizing feeling, patriarchy, person centred counselling exeter, person centred relationship, personal shadow, power, power imbalance, power of being seen, power of crying, power of surrender, power of vulnerability, powerlessness, presence, psychiatric disempowerment, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric labeling, psychiatric labelling, psychiatric model, psychiatric reductionism, reclaiming your power, recovering from psychiatry, reductionism in biomedical model, reductionism in psychiatry, relational communication, relational connection, relational presence, relationship, relationship heals, sacred expression, sacred space, sacredness of feelings, scapegoating, scientific reductionism, self concept, self-structure, shame, shyness, social control, social isolation, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, too emotional, trauma, unresolved trauma, violence, wounded healer, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Matt Licata on being received as we are

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The writer loved the Sigmund Freud quote…. Resonates with how we see therapy at this service, and the person-centred approach. Being received with love, just as we are right now, is such a powerful healing agent….. It seems a tragedy – when Sigmund Freud could … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, awakening, communication, compassion, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, fear, grief, growth, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Jung, kindness & compassion, love, Matt Licata, perception, person centred, presence, relationship, risk, sadness & pain, self, shadow, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trust, unconditional positive regard, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged acceptance, affordable counselling exeter, attunement, awareness, being met, being seen, beloved, compassion, completeness, confusion, connection, contact, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cure through love, despair, embodied experience, empathic connection, empathy, encounter, energy, enlightenment, expressing needs, field of permission, flatness, Freud, grief, growth, having needs, healing, healing through love, heart opening, hopelessness, human needs, inner world, Jung, low cost counselling exeter, low self esteem, Matt Licata, need to be heard, need to be received, need to be seen, need to be witnessed, nervous systems down regulation, open heart, own being, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising, pathologising distress, pathologizing, pathologizing distress, person centred counselling exeter, personal growth, presence, psychoanalysis, relational beings, relational matrix, relationship, resolution, responding to anxiety, responding to grief, responding to sadness, risk, secret language, self expression, self perception, softening, somatic, space in relationship, space in therapy, spirituality, suffering, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trust, unmet need, validation, validation of needs, validity of experience, wholeness, witnessing, wounds of the heart, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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 →

Thousands of children are being medicated for ADHD – when the condition may not even exist – Will Sutcliffe

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/thousands-of-children-are-being-medicated-for-adhd–when-the-condition-may-not-even-exist-10509842.html Thoughtful and useful article by Will about the ‘ADHD’ label, its implications and consequences. The writer too believes the exponential increase in diagnosis and drug treatment makes sense in political and financial terms, rather than in terms of the … Continue reading →

Posted in blaming, child development, civil rights, cognitive, communication, compulsive behaviour, creativity, cultural questions, diagnoses of ADHD, Disconnection, diversity, education, emotions, empathy, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, family systems, fear, Gender & culture, generational trauma, growing up, human condition, masculine, medical model, non-conforming, paradigm shift, parenting, perception, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, research evidence, scapegoating, shame, shaming, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, values & principles, vulnerability | Tagged achievement culture, ADHD, affordable counselling exeter, aggressive child, attainment, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, behavioral control, behaviour modifying drugs, behavioural control, behavioural signs of distress, Big Pharma, biological abnormality, blame culture, child psychiatry, coercive conformity, Concentr8, concentration, conformist educational system, conformist schooling, conformity in school, Controversial History of ADHD, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Cracked, cultural attitudes, cultural attitudes to childhood, cultural attitudes to children, cultural barometer, cultural colonisation, cultural values, daydreaming, delinquency, demonisation, demonization, diagnosis and disorder model, diagnostic test for ADHD, diagnostic threshold for ADHD, diagnostic thresholds, Disability Living Allowance, disruptive child, distracted parenting, DLA and ADHD, DSM, educational underperformance, emotional problems, excessive screen time, expectation, fear, food additives, formal schooling, Frederick Goodwin, friendship anxiety, group therapy, Has Ritalin replaced the rod, Hyperactive, hyperactivity, hyperkinetic disorder, inattentiveness, intolerance, James Davies, Joseph Biederman, judgemental culture, labelling, labelling children, lack of exercise, lack of impulse control, low cost counselling exeter, Matthew Smith, medical orthodoxy, medicating children, mental disorder, mental health model, methylphenidate hydrochloride, myth of ADHD, neo liberalism, neo-liberal economics, neurological abnormality, NHA, NICE clinical guidelines, non-conforming, Nurtured Heart Approach, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parenting, pathologising children, pathologising distress, pathologising human experience, pathologising maleness, pathologizing children, pathologizing distress, pathologizing human experience, pathologizing maleness, peer pressures, performance culture, person centred counselling exeter, philosophical tautology, productivity, psychiatric medication of children, psychiatric orthodoxy, psychiatry doing harm, recreational drugs, relationship building, Ritalin, Sami Timimi, self esteem, social media, social values, success, Tim Kendall, tunnel vision, unconditional love, unconditionality, uncooperative child, underperformance, Will Sutcliffe, William Sutcliffe, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Resisting “Children’s Mental Health Care” in America and Beyond – Laura Delano

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://recoveringfrompsychiatry.com/2015/03/childrens-mental-health-care-in-america/ Click on the link for Laura’s powerful piece about medicating our children. This has a U.S. perspective – and these are also live issues in the U.K. We are concerned about many aspects of this, not least the power … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, anger, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, child development, civil rights, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, empowerment, ethics, external locus, growing up, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Laura Delano, love, meaning, medical model, non-conforming, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, parenting, perception, person centred, political, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, research evidence, resilience, risk, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged abuse, ADHD, affordable counselling exeter, CAMHS, children’s mental health, children’s mental health care, coercive conformity, coercive drug treatment, coercive psychiatric treatment, conformity, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, discrimination, disease and disorder model, existential meaning, fear, insecurity, intolerance, Laura Delano, loneliness, low cost counselling exeter, meaning, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, medicating children, mental illness, neglect, non-conforming, oppression, over prescription of psychiatric drugs, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising distress, pathologising feeling, pathologizing distress, pathologizing feeling, person centred counselling exeter, power, power imbalance, powerlessness, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric drugs in childhood, psychiatric drugs in children, psychiatric model, psychoactive drugs, recovering from psychiatry, relationship, shame, shyness, social control, social isolation, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, trauma, violence, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Mutiny of the Soul – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/01/22/mutiny-of-the-soul/ Click on the link to visit http://www.beyondmeds.com, and this wonderful article by Charles Eisenstein. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in awakening, Charles Eisenstein, compulsive behaviour, consciousness, cultural questions, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, external locus, fear, human condition, immanence, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, Monica Cassani, perception, political, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, reality, sadness & pain, spirituality, trauma | Tagged addiction, addictive behaviour, affordable counselling exeter, anxiety, ascent of humanity, attention deficit disorder, beloved, Big Pharma, Charles Eisenstein, conscious living, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depression, diagnosis and disorder model, disconnection, ecological issues, education system, fatigue, iatrogenic illness, immanence, indigos, internal locus, low cost counselling exeter, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Mutiny of the Soul, non-conforming, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, participation in life, pathologising distress, pathologizing distress, person centred counselling exeter, personhood, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatric drugs, rational self interest, reclaiming self, ritual, sacredness of life, self trust, serotonin, soul body, spirit body, spirituality, SSRIs, sustainability, withdrawal, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters With ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ (Part 2) Jacqueline Simon Gunn & Brent Potter

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/11/scarlet-label-close-encounters-borderline-personality-disorder-part-2 Click on the link for the second part of this excellent post by Jacqueline and Brent, drawing on their co-authored book on this subject:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Perspectives-Stigmatizing-ebook/dp/B00PMABJM6/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416064246&sr=1-2&keywords=borderline+personality+disorder+potter We think the points they make are valid and important. Here too is the … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, actualizing tendency, awakening, borderline personality disorder, Brent Potter, childhood abuse, clients' perspective, cognitive, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, fear, Gender & culture, healing, human condition, identity, internal locus of evaluation, Mad in America, medical model, mindfulness, non-directive counselling, paradigm shift, perception, political, power, power and powerlessness, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self concept, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, trust, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, axis II, borderline personality disorder, BPD, Brent Potter, case study, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, DBT, diagnosis, diagnosis and disorder, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, disorder model, distress, DSM, empathy, gender and culture, gender bias, gender bias in medicine, gender bias in psychiatry, holistic counselling, holistic psychotherapy, Jacqueline Gunn, Karen Horney, low cost counselling exeter, Mad in America, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, mental illness, metanoia, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising distress, pathologizing distress, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personal growth, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, recovery, social constructs in psychiatry, social constructs of mental illness, stigma, stigmatising, stigmatizing, trauma, wholeness, working with clients with diagnosis of BPD, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment