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Today the ITZI Support Group discussed the theme "The Wounded Healer"

Points that came up included

  • some people become healers because they are wounded
  • being wounded may intensify sympat
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THE SIMPLE EGO SPECTRUM

Buddhism is a non-self psychology.  For self we can also say ego.  Thus, applying this principle to psychopathology and psychotherapy, we can say

the more eg

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One could characterise Zen Therapy as Existential Tactical Therapy. Existential because it is much concerned with meaning and purpose in life, with spiritual dimensions in collision with reality factors, and Tactical because it employs challenge, dis
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This weekend we have just completed a workshop in Belgium at Zenshin-In on the theme "Anger, Blame, Guilt and Sorrow". This provided an excellent medium for personal growth work and to this end

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I was recently reviewing the work of one of my students and she brought my attention to a body of  literature on research into bereavement counselling. The general drift of the findings suggested that bereavement counsell

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The term resonance can be used to refer to the transmission of emotional "vibrations" from client to therapist or vice versa. This short article considers the therapeutic use of this phenomenon.
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This paper suggests that depression is the product of a crisis in the development of life instinct brought about by the confrontation with changeableness. The fact that all things are transient presents a significant difficulty for our impulse to lov
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These are the course notes of the 2015 psychotherapy summer school in Seoul, S Korea: "Eyes of the Tiger; Pace of the Ox", led by Dr. Brazier.
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A code developed by the Institute for Buddhist Analysis and Psychotherapy, offering three levels of ethics: Inspirational; Normative; and Minimal.
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