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Nov 1 |
Features, Stories |
Debbie Devine |
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A Tale To Transform Body Image Warning: What you are about to read is the sort of writing that happens when you cross a former preschool teacher, radio storyteller with a psychotherapist specializing in food and body image...
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Nov 1 |
Existentialism, Human Body |
Lisa Basquez |
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I, like most, had never given much thought to my body outside of what it could do for me. I treated it poorly often and used it carelessly. I counted on it to be available for me whether I’d given it what it needed or...
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Nov 1 |
Expressive Arts, Psychotherapy |
Ilene Serlin |
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Note: This piece was a contribution by Ilene Serlin to the book Healing Stories: The Use of Narrative in Counseling and Psychotherapy Edited by Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, and Leslie Gray; published by Puente:...
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Oct 15 |
Existentialism, Psychology, Psychotherapy |
Ilene Serlin |
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This article is a reprint from the Journal of Humanistic Psychology XX(X) 1–4 © The Author(s) 2011 Sage Publication: http://www. sagepub.com Abstract Since much of humanistic psychology’s agenda has been taken up by...
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Oct 15 |
Being vs Non-Being, Features, Psychology |
Jacqueline Simon Gunn |
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In discovering self-consciousness Descartes proclaimed “I think, therefore I am.” To explain the experience of self-consciousness in such a manner presupposes that the mind and body are separate. This however, remains to be...
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Oct 15 |
Being vs Non-Being, Psychology |
Richard Bargdill |
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Note: This piece is split in half. There are six numbered entries with this post and there will be another seven on December 15th, 2011. If you enjoy what you see here, please stop back next month for the second half!...
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Oct 1 |
Psychology, Trauma |
Robert Stolorow |
1348 Views |
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In my work over the last two decades attempting to grasp the nature of emotional trauma, I have shown that its essence lies in the shattering of what I call the absolutisms of everyday life–the system of illusory beliefs...
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Oct 1 |
Psychology |
Dave McCarty |
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Community can be different for introverts and extraverts. Until age 59 I functioned as a flaming extravert, life-of-the-party kinda guy, but then I discovered who I really was: a strong introvert. How is that even...
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Sep 15 |
Expressive Arts, Features, I-Thou, Psychotherapy |
Heather Hill |
3732 Views |
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As a young social worker working with mothers and babies, I could never imagine wanting to work with the elderly. It all seemed just too depressing – it seemed all about nursing home placement, sickness and death. Some...
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Sep 15 |
Music, Psychology |
Mark Winborn |
2994 Views |
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The blues have been close to my heart since I was about 13 or 14 years old. I didn’t know why I was attracted to the blues but I knew it resonated with something in me as soon as I heard it. The gritty, visceral, deep feel of...
