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Contracting & suicidal thoughts, a person-centred perspective

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This is the text of a recent email to our therapists on these themes. We are aware of the very different way in which these issues are addressed within the NHS/similar medicalized contexts in health and social care – and the extent to which … Continue reading →

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The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ Jacqueline Simon Gunn & Brent Potter

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/scarlet-label-close-encounters-borderline-personality-disorder/ Click on the link for Jacqueline’s and Brent’s article for Mad in America, which makes some interesting points, as do some of the comments (for example around the medicalization of distress/the human condition, and around gender bias in the … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, borderline personality disorder, Brent Potter, childhood abuse, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, fear, feminine, Gender & culture, healing, human condition, identity, Mad in America, medical model, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, political, power, psychiatry, research evidence, scapegoating, self concept, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, trust, working with clients | Tagged ACE Study, adverse childhood event, affordable counselling exeter, borderline personality disorder, BPD, Brent Potter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, diagnosis, diagnosis and disorder, disorder model, distress, DSM, empathy, gender and culture, gender bias, gender bias in medicine, gender bias in psychiatry, holistic counselling, holistic psychotherapy, Irvin Yalom, Jacqueline Gunn, low cost counselling exeter, Mad in America, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, mental illness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, recovery, social constructs in psychiatry, social constructs of mental illness, stigma, stigmatising, stigmatizing, suicidal clients, suicidal ideation, suicidal intent, suicide, Theodore Millon, trauma, working with clients with diagnosis of BPD, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

Jennifer Michael Hecht on Suicide

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Jennifer Michael Hecht on Suicide Thank you Monica Cassani and Beyond Meds for this post. Click on the title for Monica’s post, which leads with a fascinating ‘On Being’ interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht on this subject, in relation to … Continue reading →

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Contracting & suicidal thoughts, a person-centred perspective

The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ Jacqueline Simon Gunn & Brent Potter

Jennifer Michael Hecht on Suicide

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