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Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity? Michael Cornwall

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/06/do-psychiatrists-harm-patients-out-of-stupidity/ Click on the above link to visit http://www.madinamerica.com for this accurate, perceptive piece by Michael about the ‘disease model’ of psychiatry, which lacks both an evidence base and humanity, and challenges basic common sense. Michael is writing in the … Continue reading →

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Madness and Beauty in the Heart of Darkness – Drake Spaeth

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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 →

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James Hillman on his book, ‘The Soul’s Code’

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Souls-Code-Search-Character-Calling/dp/055350634X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430473279&sr=8-1&keywords=soul%27s+code+hillman ‘We need to make clear that today’s main paradigm for understanding a human life, the interplay of genetics and environment, omits something essential – the particularity you feel to be you. By accepting the idea that I am … Continue reading →

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Carl Rogers on touching our inner spirit

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But … Continue reading →

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“I believe that…

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“I believe that the central challenge and opportunity of our age is to develop large, synthesizing, and inclusive models which are adequate to the diversity and multidimensional complexity of historical and current experience. Such models will include female as well … Continue reading →

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