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We all understand that we go into a therapeutic setting in order to achieve change, and many of us know that it does not always happen, so just what are the core conditions for change? Carl Rogers provides us with some of the answers. Carl Rogers was one of the pioneers of person-centred or humanistic […]
To understand the history of counselling, we begin with the realisation that human beings find a good deal of comfort in sharing their problems. Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology, put it another way, “We are all in some way or other kept asunder by our secrets”[1], meaning that by keeping secrets, especially painful […]
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do Carl Jung If we take Jung’s statement as a starting point, then counselling could be considered the bringing into alignment our thoughts, words and actions. Of course there are many different approaches and settings that assume the process of ‘counselling’ – but all are […]
A Practical Guide to Life Buddha took a practical approach to his teachings, which he delivered by talking to people with real problems. He approached it as you would approach a problem that you face. First, you need to know what the problem is. Then you need to understand its nature and its extent. Once […]
There has been a spate of attacks on cell phone towers due to a coronavirus conspiracy theory. Engineers have been attacked verbally and physically, one stabbed, one falling ill with coronavirus after being spat at. What is causing this irrational behaviour? These are not normal times, with our lives disrupted in a way that hasn’t […]
Lockdown has brought a massive change in routine for almost all of us. Normality for most of us involved; getting up when the alarm goes off, packing the kids off to school, grabbing a coffee on the commute to work, settling into a day’s work, punctuated by a cuppa and chat. Heading home at the […]
The concept of the conscious, the subconscious and the unconscious There have been sophisticated theories of mind that have undoubtedly contained the concepts of conscious and subconscious for over two thousand years, most notably in Buddhist philosophy[1]. Greek philosophers also described concepts of mind, including Aristotle and Plato, although they might describe it as the […]
With the incredible rise in popularity of mindfulness practice, some are beginning to question if mindfulness is as good for you as some would have you believe. There are now various reports of adverse reactions — just exactly what is happening? I had always thought that mindfulness was a pretty uncontroversial topic. Although there was […]
Carl Rogers, was one of the foremost psychologists of the 20th century and a pioneer of the person-centred approach to counselling. He observed that the human personality is like a triangle made up of the real self, the perceived self, and ideal self[1].