Right now working on Otahuna Horse Riding website. Pleased to have got it up & running and now there is more content to get on.
2007
The year has found some footing. Years of course have a place in space not just time. This one is in cyberspace but as the one tending it I see a New Zealand summer outside my window. I have returned to work after a summer break and so the feel for me that 24 January is bringing has that sense of a new start and this feels like an early moment in that.
Psychotherapy Online – I have opened my book for new clients – it has been closed for most of 2006 as I had a full case load.
Thousand Sketches – This is still the “year of the sketch” it will be until Spring 2007. I am about a third of the way through doing the 1000 digital ones I am committed to. it is a project in psyberspace!
The Psyberspace Podcast – I am quietly continuing this project and have been chatting about the sketches. However there are more brewing on purely psychological matters too. Subscribe to the podcast.
Paris Breakfasts
I am obsessed with sketches
haden4cows.jpg (JPEG Image, 942×650 pixels):
This is one image from 100’s I have been delighted to peruse in the “Philadelpia Printshop”
Useful psychotherapy page in Wikipedia
Category:Psychotherapy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a different page than the one that appears under Psychotherapy, which is also useful. This is a Wikipedia “Category” and it shows well how Psychotherapy is just that. Psychotherapy is a category like “tree” then there are many species some very different from others. In New Zealand we have one organization that covers all the various modalities, this is rather unusual in the world, even though there is also a World Council for Psychotherapy WCP (A trip to Beijing in 2008 could be a good thing to do!).
While there are irreconcilable world views behind some of the modalities, they reflect the complexity of the mind & soul. No one modality can really capture it all. My own training was in Psychodrama – which has its strengths but is essentially a group method. My one-to-one work is informed also by my training as a Social Worker and through my experience of personal Jungian Analysis.
Pokaka – calendar the house at Mt. Lyford
I have embedded a Google calendar on our Pokaka site. Trying it here in WordPress. I’ll be amazed if the Gloogle Calender shows up here, but it does on the Pokaka website: http://www.lyfordtreks.co.nz/pokaka Click the link on the bottom of the page to go to the Calendar page.
Later: No, WordPress stripped it out, so it only works on webpages. But there it works very well! So have a look you may want to spend a night in our fantastic house in the hills!
Josh On
Stumbled across this really nice interview of Josh.
Great picture!!
Google Notebooks
I am enjoying this Google feature. Really nice way to manage all sorts of note taking, and linking to the web. Making them public seems ok, though my notes are mainly for me, bookmarks and tools for my writing etc. The public version does not show the lovely ajax enabled fluidity for managing these notes, showing & hiding them & moving them to different notebooks. Here are my public ones just set up today:
Professional identity
My third psyberspace podcast
Download: MP3
Listen: Odeo
Psychotherapy & Counselling – the difference – registration of Psychotherapy as a profession in New Zealand
There is no simple way of saying that someone is doing a psychotherapy in the way we could say they have done an analysis. Psychotherapy as a project!
I also ask the question of how all this might apply or not to psychotherapy online.
Defence against pain
Here is another Audio (9.56 min):
Shownotes:
Thanks Dan for your response.
Maybe my reticence is not for professional reasons … a defence – See Freud's list here on Wikipedia
What are defenses about & for?
What about James Hillman's Acorn Theory
Whatever I am defended about there is also a need to find a way through some genuine difficulties.
Also mentioned:
Sukie Colegrave – By Way of Pain
Sukie Colegrave – Uniting Heaven & Earth
~
Sub to Psyberspace, the Podcast:
