Walter Logeman: Journal
In an earlier post I tried to capture a thought I had about dialogues. I was pleased to know someone read it and emailed me to say they were a bit confused. No wonder, I just pour out something I think about late at night — when I should be fast asleep! I will describe …
Continue reading “Dialogues and mirroring – Psychodrama and Imago”
I want to add a few notes to my recent posts on the mirror in psychodrama Companioning the protagonist as they are mirrored. To see how others see you can be a moment of vulnerability. The director can assume a companion position in the audience, and watch the mirroring together and connect and with the …
Mirroring is a word used in both the Psychodrama and Imago modalities. In a classic psychodrama the protagonist returns to the audience and is companioned by the conductor of the drama, who instructs the auxiliary egos to re-enact the scene. This can be done for a variety of reasons. One is to reveal to the …
Quotes from Moren follow:
I have been reflecting on a while on what appears to be different uses of the term “mirroring’ in various psychotherapeutic modalities. It was useful to come across Peter Felix Kellermann’s distinction between two types of mirroring. Validating Mirror “When I look, iam seen so I exist.” – Winnicott Evaluative Mirror Learning to see how …
Clinging to the rear view mirror – Roger Ebert’s Journal:
… the ability to perceive difference is a crucial, perhaps a necessary prerequisite for spontaneity. I saw more clearly one of the purposes of the psychodramatic technique of mirroring, it allows information, potentially lost* to be maximised and responded to. This is a quote from an article I wrote in 1987! My friend Don said …
Internet and Unconscious: The Psychic Interface by Peter Gomes “The process of internet use becomes – in part – a dialogue with the Self – the united whole, the complete psychic entity of ourselves both personal, collective, conscious and unconscious – with the internet mirroring the unconscious, working on both a collective and personal level …
I’ve just listened to this episode of The Couples Therapists Couch In this episode, Emotionally Focused Therapist, Figs O’Sullivan, conceptualizes a case from the standpoint of working from the EFT perspective. Relational Life Therapist, Shane Birkel, talks about how an RLT therapist would work with the same couple. Figs and Shane talk through some of …
Continue reading “EFT, RLT and another perspective – Encounter”
Ok you are in a bad space. Either it’s all fight or all flight or a mix of fight and flight. Maybe it’s cold shoulder time. Maybe “it’s all your fault” time. Any way it’s no good. Stop. Don’t escalate with tit for tat. 1. Listen You can talk or listen. Choose listen. That is the …