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This is a question that I am often asked. Many couples make love very infrequently but do not have the language or...

How many times has a person with drug or alcohol problems heard “What do you keep doing this for?” To...

Probably the most common opening to a first counselling session is “I’m not sure I need counselling...

Many times in life, we come across people who seem to be very quick to take offence, when you thought you were offering help, advice or constructive feedback. Worse, some of you might have someone...

What are the impacts of redundancy? When people are faced with redundancy there are two obvious impacts of financial concerns (debt) and anxiety about what the future holds. The third major impact...

Research findings relating to young offenders show a history of maltreatment and loss in up to 90% of the sample...

Until now, the words ‘evidence-based therapies’ has been used mostly by advocates of CBT and other forms of non-psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies. In the light of stunning new...

Data from developmental studies show that, in the earliest period of development, the primary mechanism for...

From the 1930s onwards psychoanalysis has seen a paradigmatic shift away from Freudian drive theory towards a...

Introduction Power is an implicit thread in the discourses that inform many aspects of our social and political...

There has been very little research on how the concept of emotional intelligence could relate to some of the overarching issues currently debated in the field of therapeutic relationship. The...

In Client-Centred Therapy (Rogers 1951) and On Becoming a Person (Rogers 1961) Rogers refers in the process of...