Have you ever wondered what the Elements Model is and how useful is it in Psychotherapy? Or indeed have you ever heard of the Elements Model? The Elements Model, devised by CCPE, is a transpersonal integrative approach to understanding of personality and emphasises the potential of clients. So far so good you might think, isn’t that […]
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I believe I can be ‘psychotherapeutically correct’ a lot of the time I have now finished my 16 weeks of group process culminating in a weekend residential retreat in the Kent countryside. For the past 16 weeks I have been part of a group process on my course involving weekly unstructured 90 minutes sessions. What started
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Effects of Physical Fitness on the Cancer Patient by Guest Blogger David Haas Physical activity and fitness provide many of the same benefits to cancer patients and survivors as they do to the general public. Of course, cancer patients face a number of challenges with this aspect of healthy living that the average healthy adult
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the journey in transpersonal integrative psychotherapy is to seek one’s essence, one’s real self I often wonder if early life experiences are important in shaping adult character and whether unconscious communication such as transference and counter-transference is integral to transpersonal integrative psychotherapy. Perhaps transpersonal integrative psychotherapy presupposes psychoanalysis or, rather, include it as a first
We had a three day weekend on Gestalt Psychotherapy, which for me, proved to be one of the most powerful components of the course so far. The word gestalt is used to describe a phenomenon/concept in which the ‘whole’ is considered as greater than the sum total of all its parts. We initially started the
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“Neuro-Linguistic Programming n. a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and the subjective experiences (esp. patterns of thought) underlying them; a system of alternative therapy based on this which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional
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Yesterday I attended an information meeting on the Service User Network (S.U.N) in Wandsworth, which is a peer support service that aims to help people cope specifically with personality disorder and emotional/behavioural difficulties. The service aims to empower service users so that they feel more supported and less excluded from the community. It was insightful seeing how meetings are run,
I am currently undertaking research to evaluate the relevance of early life and psychodynamic ideas of unconscious communication e.g. transference and counter transference to transpersonal integrative psychotherapy. I am reminded how ground breaking the ideas of Freud was, how distasteful the language and ideas of Melanie Klein can be and how attachment theory is
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A lot has been written about transference and counter transference from the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client. Of course we do not approach people in any walk of life as a blank sheet but rather we ‘transfer’ what we have already learned from the past to the present. However, in psychotherapy it is
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I attended a weekend component of my course yesterday and today on family therapy and the use of sandtrays. It is generally held by those in the know that the birth of Family Therapy method occurred around the middle of the 1950s. It is, therefore, very recent. Previously all psychological problems were primarily seen as individual
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