Reluctant and resistant. Moi? The double bind of therapy.

Counter-transference is more common than we think. Acknowledged and worked with it is a positive tool. But it happens most in encounters where the therapist is too inexperienced, or neither reflective, reflexive or self-unaware to notice it. For anyone who has been in a therapeutic encounter as either a therapeutic practitioner or person seeking assistance, … More Reluctant and resistant. Moi? The double bind of therapy.

The last of the ‘the first time’ I tried it syndrome.

What could you try for the first time? I have felt defeated by this topic for discussion and I turned to references to the ‘first time’ on the web. In large, and on an inspection of them that probably lacked rigour, the pages thrown up by both Google and Bing search engines seemed to fall … More The last of the ‘the first time’ I tried it syndrome.