Towards a More Natural Psychology

Towards a More Natural Psychology

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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

RD Laing

  • Making Sense of Suicide

    I could write a whole series on suicide, because it says so much of the times that we live in. In this piece I describe two very different people who crossed my doorstep: An adolescent girl and a mid-career professional man. Both confirm my professional conviction  that all behaviour is logical. That symptoms are not […]

    August 27, 2018
  • On Poverty, Low Parental Education and Lack of Intelligence in Children

    Do children who grow up in extreme poverty lack intelligence and imagination? A toddler sits in the sand, eyes clouded. He simply sits. Occasionally listlessly handling a pebble. That’s it. Extreme poverty robs a child of adequate stimulation, of joyful exploration, of life-giving nutrition and care. No, poor children are not born less curious and […]

    August 23, 2018
  • How Parental Reactions and Meaning-making Help Children to Self-regulate: Self-regulation is an Acquired Skill.

    Meaning making and emotion regulation “Seeing ourselves from the outside and others from the inside”. How do we make sense of our own feelings and the behaviours of others? How do we learn to soothe others and ourselves? Our understanding of an event and our capacity to deal with it are two sides of the […]

    August 20, 2018
  • Will, Power & Motivation

    And what about two year olds who are in charge? Where there is a will there is thé way What is will? A person’s choice or desire in a particular situation. Merrriam-Webster Free will? Within your will you experience yourself. This is already noticeable in a two-year old: The experience of an injury to the […]

    August 16, 2018
  • Mental health

    Some days I think we have all gone missing in this overkill of information and options. To use nutrition as a metaphor: if we all just ate three meals of real food every day, would that not quite simply suffice and liberate us all from the plethora of debates? So as for “Mental Health”: Speak […]

    September 20, 2017
  • Why Babies Cry and Why We Feel Lonely at Dusk:

    Once upon a time, long ago, the first human was born. Of two parents, one male one female. Or should that be, one female one male. That very first human was born maybe only a few seconds before another one elsewhere appeared, but they would be the first of the new species homo sapiens. The […]

    September 15, 2017
  • Theft

    I hear the child’s voice and then I see them. The mother is crisply urban. With platinum white hair expensively snipped to look boyish, her heals go clickety clack on the glossy tiled floors of the shopping mall. “We forgot to pay for it.” The little girl, all pink, is clutching a Barbie book in […]

    September 11, 2017
  • What is Happening to Therapy?

    This is the post excerpt.

    September 10, 2017
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