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Do You Suffer from “Vitamin M” Deficiency? Cori on The Emotionally Absent Mother

Gordon Shippey — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:01:32 +0000

Centuries ago we learned that lack of vitamin C causes scurvy and now getting enough of this vitamin is known to be a necessity for good health. For good mental health, a nurturing mother figure ("vitamin M", if you will) is just as important.

Tags: parenting and children, psychodyamics, reviews, therapy, training and development

Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome

Sarah Luczaj — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:48:11 +0000

Asperger's as a diagnosis can appear to preclude the existence of fulfilling human relationships for the young people concerned. But Bromfield's "relationship-based therapy" for his young clients shows that they have the same human needs for relationship as others, they just have trouble expressing them in socially proficient ways.

Tags: autistic spectrum, parenting and children, reviews, training and development

Brazier on Other-Centred Therapy

Sarah Luczaj — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:16:59 +0000

In stark contrast to the stereotypical Western therapist forever distracting the client from their stories about the world in order to ask "but how do you feel?", the Other Centred therapist listens carefully to the stories themselves. Indeed, this book presents examples of client work in which the therapist asks the opposite question about a partner whose behaviour the client is complaining about: "but what was that like for him?".

Tags: listening, mindfulness, overviews & guides, person-centred, reviews, therapy, training and development

Caroline Brazier on Listening to the Other

Sarah Luczaj — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:36:46 +0000

Brazier reminds us that counselling often goes beyond offering a non-judgemental space in which the client can listen to and experience themselves, to actively encourage a kind of self-preoccupation which can actually make one more isolated and miserable.

Tags: listening, mindfulness, overviews & guides, person-centred, reviews, therapy, training and development

Zerbe on Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders

Sarah Luczaj — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:38:15 +0000

This book seems to contain all of human life, from the scientific details through the full range of emotions, including the extremes of love and hate. And it emanates a sense that although we all get shaken sometimes, and life is dangerous, every feeling is expressible and every situation is workable.

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