Walter Logeman: Journal
Small Graces Mapping a Route of Beauty to the Heart of the World by Jason Sugg Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology Pacifica Graduate Institute 14 February 2012 Has a whole section on Participation Mystique and I-Thou. Well researched. Below is an enticing …
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I recall being advised by my then supervisor, about 30 years ago, to look around for a psychotherapy modality that grabbed me and then to learn it thoroughly and not become prematurely eclectic. I followed that advice. Psychodrama was that modality for me and I am steeped in its traditions and have practiced it for …
I found this on the WayBack machine & thought I already had it in this blog, but it seems not. I will change the creation date so it show up as an old archive… sometime/maybe. Be interesting to see what links still work? Seems they all go to the wayback Machine.
When learning to dialogue people often ask how to respond to their partner after they have listened to their first “send”. What do I say, can I say anything? Response is central to relating. Is everything a response to the previous thing? Perhaps, but I like to distinguish the words of the initiator of the …
“Moses and the Shepherd” by Rumi, tr. by Coleman Barks
The workshop I will be running for counsellors and therapists this year has gone up on the CITP website. It is run under the auspices of the Psychodrama training institute, and I’m pleased that this workshop I ran for the first time in Blenheim in November has a niche in the psychodrama setting. I will …
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The idea that couple has a special place in the family system, or the social atom is somewhat obvious perhaps. Murray Bowen makes that claim (see quote below) but the implications go very deep into how we do psychotherapy. If it is the relationship that is central then it puts a new light on attachment. …
Christchurch three months on | Stuff.co.nz: CATE BRETT Photo: Carys Monteath Community spirit: Mara Apse organised working bees in her neighbourhood after large cracks opened up in the hill, which they filled with a liquid absorbing clay. It takes more than two for this tango: After the labouring came the music and dancing. Related Links …
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Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot: (excerpt, East Coker V, Four Quartets) Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of …
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There is a continuum with two extremes. Its all in the dialogue between the couple Education is the main focus. ____________________________________ Its all in the safety of the relationship with the therapist. The therapeutic relationship with each partner and the relationship is the main focus. Of course it is both, I doubt anyone holds the …