Well Action Psychotherapy
Jon Bowen PhD PGCert(Psych)
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Why was Freud doomed from the outset?:
Read full article ...The Freudian Project was doomed from the outset. The intention was all good, to make observations of clinical phenomena and to construct a model that could explain the phenomena and make predictions.
Also Freud’s observations were brilliant: such phenomena ...
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What exactly is the Ego?:
Read full article ...This word, from the latin meaning “I”, was introduced into modern English by the Father of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Freud’s use of the term certainly caught people’s imagination, and it is now common to hear “He has an inflated ego”, “She suffers from a weak ego”, “What we all need to do is dissolve our egos”, “They are all egocentric buffoons”, etc.
But hang on a minute – that ...
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Is AI Consciousness really a threat to humanity?:
Read full article ...“All we need is a mathematical definition of consciousness, and then we can implement it as a computer program.”
Back in the 1980s I found myself ...
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What does it mean to be unkind to a child:
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Scapegoating: Why does it happen and what you can do about it:
Read full article ...“You feel scapegoated? I assure you there’s nothing like that going on in this team. Your HR record shows a history of mental health issues, you must be imagining it, you need to get help.”
The VERY WORST management response imaginable. ...
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Can Psychotherapy help with chronic fatigue, ME/CFS, burn-out, long covid?:
Read full article ..."ME/CFS/Chronic Fatigue. It's not a real illness, it's all in the mind." I've heard this sentiment over and over again from professionals who should know better; I couldn't disagree more.
This does beg the question of "what ...