Clients as Heroes

Clients as Heroes

It’s 50 years since Carl Rogers published his Client Centered Therapy with it’s claim that no person is essentially bad or ill, but at worse merely working out their natural potential to find the healthy goodness that all people are. Roger’s philosophical base was...
Grass and Law’n Order

Grass and Law’n Order

If we are to seriously entertain an alternative to our current draconian treatment of “the drug problem” then one alternative to the simplistic suggestion of de-criminalization is to consider licensing. Just as we have licensing laws for driving on our roads, why not...
Psychosis: A Brief Note

Psychosis: A Brief Note

Sometime ago the World Health Organisation funded a study exploring the prevalence of psychotic disorders cross-culturally.  The surprising finding was not so much that this phenomenon seems to be found in all cultures, but that the prognosis was better in the...
Thought-Field Therapy

Thought-Field Therapy

One of the more unusual schools of therapy to emerge on the American scene in the past decade has been Thought-Field Therapy.  Perhaps the easiest way to understand it, is to imagine that it is form of acupressure therapy; and that it requires you to tap certain parts...