Walter Logeman: Journal
The whole field of mental health, therapy, personal and family therapy is like a huge forest. There are the big trees that provide the canopy. Many species of those from very different families. Then layers of stuff that goes right down to the rare fungi and microscopic little weird things that are not even classified. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy)#Definition According to Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarised as follows: “ ‘A person is a person through other people’ strikes an affirmation of one’s humanity through recognition of an ‘other’ in his or her uniqueness and difference. It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in …
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Facilitating interaction was the dictum I used for the first couple therapy I did. I recall, as an untrained social worker in a hospital being asked to work with a couple who had difficulties. The night before I read a gestalt based book on couple therapy and facilitate interaction was the central practical guide I …
This is the third of three posts based on the monograph “Origins of Encounter and Encounter Groups” by J.L. And Zerka Moreno This is obviously the main theme of the encounter monograph. There is more here on encounter than I’ve seen in other books by Moreno.[Check out Vol 2] Useful. Encounter is so central to …
Three articles on the relational paradigm were published in the Imago newsletter this year by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt. They are available on the Imago website. I have collated them here as I wish to refer to them in my writing on this blog and in discussion with others. UPDATE: Wednesday, 9 March, 2016 …
I have been looking up anything to do with the relational paradigm and keep bumping into relational psychoanalysis and relational T.A. They seem fine. I’m surprised these branches of the tree are even needed – I would have thought that psychoanalysis and T.A. Were already “relational” in this way, i.e. Valuing of the relationship between …
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I am highly conscious of the language in couple therapy I do at the moment. I used to use the Imago language in couple therapy for many years. I was resistant to the rather ugly “sender and receiver” words. Though not as accurate for what was actually happening I preferred talker and listener in the last few years. However after listening …
Summary of Norms and Guidelines for Communologue 1. Everyone is mirrored. This slows sharing down but develops a sense of each speaker feeling safe and being fully heard. 2. Anyone can volunteer to mirror. If no one else wishes to mirror the speaker, the facilitator(s) will do it. We suggest that if a person wants …
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To Imago Therapists | Al Turtle’s Relationship Wisdom: “” Worth a read, especially the paragraphs on Master Talk
Amazon The Couch and the Stage: Integrating Words and Action in Psychotherapy Robert J. Landy