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Therapy is a sanctuary to understand what it means to be you as much as what it means to be human.

Freud and Jung on Dreams. This online course will examine the creation of Freud’s theory of dreams. We will then explore Jung’s contrasting way of understanding dreams and of working with them in psychotherapeutic practice. 26 April. Book now!
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I added captions to this rare footage of relational psychoanalyst Stephen Mitchell from the 1989 Div39 conference in Boston (1/2)

Happy International Women's Day ❤️
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'The current culture of therapy... so often presents the therapist as someone who will validate, cheerlead, and support the patient—rather than someone who will collaborate with the patient to change their patterns of relating to others and to themselves.'
—Michael Karson

“My message is one of hope.”

Sexual assault survivor Sarah Grace talks about the tools available for survivors to help them heal

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This ♥️🙏🏻
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The Child - Erich Neumann (1955)
“When a child expresses the desire to have, to possess, to introject the objects of the world, as in a desire to eat them, this should not be interpreted as aggressive sadism. The child does not want to eat up its mother - even if it expresses

A small child presented to a specialist outpatient clinic suffering from ringworm infestation, iron-deficiency anaemia and severe dental decay that required 10 of her teeth to be extracted. Her diagnosis? Homelessness. Now more than 4,000 homeless children
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Some people think after 3 years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, one “should” be “healed.”

In reality, after 3 years of analysis, one might have begun to resolve some transference and resistance phenomena, develop maturation-ally, or rework character.

This sets the stage for

'Good psychotherapy creates the conditions for its own expiration because the patient will no longer need the therapist. As Winnicott noted, 'We all hope our patients will finish with us and forget us, and that they will find living itself to be the therapy that makes sense.'”

Our clinic office is closed now until Monday 8th of January for Christmas break. Nollaig Shona Daoibh #MerryChristmasAndHappyNewyear #Therapist #ChristmasWishes
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Gardaí have appealed for help from the public to trace the whereabouts of 17-year-old Charlotte Conway.

Charlotte was last seen in Limerick city at around 5.30pm on Thursday, 14 December after travelling from Waterford.

Therapist's Thoughts 💭 love this from Tiny Buddha 🙏🏻♥️ #TuesdayFeeling #December #Christmas2023 #MentalHealthAwareness #life #love #loss #therapy
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Thoughts before Bedtime 🙏🏻♥️
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'When therapists are able to tolerate uncertainty, the therapeutic alliance strengthens... being honest about one's uncertainty reinforces partnership rather than hierarchy. The patient is galvanized to think 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us.'
—Mary Jo Peebles

(How very different from therapists who

Wow 😲 amazing

Meaningful psychotherapy is often a process of mourning

To invest fully in life, we must mourn the past that never was and the futures that can never be