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Mind, Conscious and Unconscious In the course of my work as a therapist, I am often talking to clients about the difference between conscious and unconscious mind. Many people have never even considered that such a division exists, and would assume that the mind is that ‘thing’ that is having thoughts, making decisions throughout the […]
Welcome to Psychofiles Welcome to the first episode of Psychofiles, a new video/podcast series discussing matters of the mind. In this first episode I talk about relationships and where we go wrong and how we might prevent ourselves from creating problems in our relationships. I welcome your comments, thoughts and questions. Keep thinking good thoughts! […]
Or Why Therapists Should Not Affirm I have read many mission statements from various charities and media outlets recently that all revolve around the premise that one should ‘be allowed to be yourself’, or ‘provide a space to be your authentic self’. Indeed, many counselling and psychology professional bodies make similar statements referring to such […]
The Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions (2016) is published by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BCAP) . A link to the complete document is provided at the end [1]. By its nature counselling can deal with sensitive information that the client is sharing with the practitioner. The client needs to be able […]
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 […]