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For as long as I can remember I have struggled to manage my emotions. Everything will be fine one moment, and then out of the blue something will go wrong. I will start to feel a deep sense of injustice … Read More

What is meant when it is asserted that someone is mentally ill? In this essay I shall describe the main uses of the concept of mental illness, and I shall argue that this notion has outlived whatever cognitive usefulness it … Read More

What it would be like if you could stop expecting too much? If you could let things develop in their own way. My old girlfriend used to say I was too reactive.  I couldn’t see it at the time, but … Read More

I am very sensitive to other people, to how they react to me.  It’s like I have a 6th sense. I instinctively know what they think of me.  I think it’s like my superpower.  I pick up on things really … Read More

Wishful thinking describes the formation of beliefs that are based on what we want to imagine happening rather than what is happening.  In wishful thinking, we overlook the evidence, the facts, and concentrate on what we wish for instead. Is it … Read More

This post is a response to an article by Martin Seligman Building Resilience, which was originally published in the Harvard Business Review, April 2011. It seems ironic to me, that the testing ground of positive psychology became the US Army.  … Read More

“The lockdown happening sent me into a tailspin.  I had been working hard to get my café off the ground, healthy fresh food at affordable prices.  There was nothing like it in my local town.  We were starting to go … Read More

Sometimes I dream that I am playing a game of hide and seek.  I have gone off to hide somewhere in a big house.  I find a good place and then I sit really still and wait for someone to … Read More

The Secure Base model is intended to provide a positive framework within which therapeutic caregiving can be developed.  The aim is to help people move towards greater security and to build resilience. It was developed by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek … Read More

Clinical supervision is an integral part of working and developing as a psychotherapist or counsellor. Supervision is built around the task of understanding more about another person, in this case, a client or patient.  In clinical supervision, a representation of … Read More