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Psychotherapy Online Home Thanks again Josh and all those who commented and tested it.

Not A Dollarshort All my focus on design of late has alerted me to Mena Tripp and TypePad. Her work has a nice touch. I am envious of the topic setup in TypePad. I’d like a Books version of Psyberspace.

I am very pleased with the layout at this point. I’ll call it version 3.00 With a lot of help from Josh Campbell (thats him on the right) of Zype I have got the CSS the way I want it and the layout images right. I have done an extraordinary amount of tweaking to get the black borders here to work with blogger… Black borders you ask? In Mozilla this weblog is 800px wide and centered. That is a reasonable width to read any single column of text IMO. IE does not have max-width working so it fills the window. I might still put it in a box on IE, not sure. For now its done.

ON to finalise the rest of the website!

Thanks Josh, and everyone else who watched me agonise over this.

Clean Language

Clean Language Questions

The aim of Clean Language early in the process is to allow information to emerge into the client’s awareness by exploringtheir coding of their metaphor.

Let’s revisit the above example, this time using Clean Language questions:

Client: I’m stuck with no way out.

CLQ: And what kind of stuck with no way out is that stuck with no way out?

Client A: My whole body feels as if its sinking into the ground.
Client B: I can’t see the way forward. It’s all foggy.
Client C: Every door that was opened to me is closed.

This gives the client maximum opportunity to describe the experience of ‘stuck,’ and therefore to gather more information about their representation of the Present State.

OK this is full of NLP jargon, but I like the idea of accurately reflecting and probing the situation at the same time. Also I like the idea of how this leads to the client’s own metaphors. In other words it is about holding off on the empathy and sticking to the image.

links for a rainy day

Another article from BPAS this a journalistic one about psychoanalysis is readable and broad enough to include all depth psychology. Here is one paragraph:

And yet in any of the recent millennium lists of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century, Sigmund Freud, the Viennese medical doctor who was the discoverer and founding father of psycho-analysis, is always among the top few. And these same, sceptical, no-nonsense citizens entirely accept and are often guided by ideas and attitudes that come directly from Freud, or from later psychoanalytic writing. For instance, everyone knows what a Freudian slip is, i.e. the sudden ‘accidental’ betrayal of a person’s true thoughts, unthinkingly blurted out from his or her unconscious. Indeed, the very idea of an unconscious from which such personal truths might spring is a psychoanalytic concept. As are ‘ambivalence’ (as in ‘I have ambivalent feelings about him’), ‘sibling rivalry’, ‘neurosis’, and ‘Oedipus complex’. At the end of the twentieth century, we all speak Freud.

BPAS:

…it is good to talk, of course; but it’s best to talk face to face.

Prof. Paul Williams, Anglia Polytechnic University

The item is a bit bland but makes some interesting points – mostly about addiction – and I find the closing remark not so much wrong as a futile comparison. I’d say letter writing has undergone a revolution, and that is the point to get.

Found the movie stuff in the previous item from the Guardian Item: Guardian Unlimited Books I am making a note here to go here after the 28th. :

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and professor of cultural history at Queen Mary, University of London. His most recent book is Svengali’s Web. Bloomsbury and Psychoanalysis, an exhibition of photographs and documents, will appear on the website of the British Psychoanalytical Society at www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/archives.htm, from August 28.

British Psychoanalytical Association Be interesting to be part of the discussions, but for the rest of us it is at least a good list of video picks.