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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

'Inner equanimity stems from knowing that it is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of things.' Irvin Yalom, Staring at the Sun This always resonates with one of my favourite poems, 'Invictus' by W.E.Henley, the last verse of which has helped me many times when life has been tough.

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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

'As my study of theory progressed it was gradually borne in upon me that the field I had set to plough so lightheartedly was no less than the one that Freud had started tilling sixty years earlier, and that it contained all those same rocky excrescences and thorny entanglements that he

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Meanwhile in the other place insanity continues to reign

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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

'... a developing person strives for individuation, growth and fulfillment of his or her potential. But there is a cost! In emerging, expanding and standing out from nature, an individual encounters life anxiety, a frightening loneliness...' Irvin Yalom, Staring at the Sun. #anxiety #loneliness

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 08/12/2024

Too many autistic students are imploding from autistic burnout and lack of accommodations for different learning needs. "If only schools had a space where students could step out & say 'I can breathe here, I can take time out'." www.bbc.com/news/article... #neurodiversity

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Autism burnout cost teen three years' of school, say parents

The 16-year-old has been home schooled after suffering meltdowns on the way to school.

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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

W.F.Bach and R.D.Laing between client appointments. A new happy place for me! I haven't read this book for around 19 years (when I started my therapy training). Amazing how a book written in the 1950's is still so relevant to modern psychotherapy in the 21st century.

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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I love old books! Just wondering about the journey this wonderful book has been on to find its way into my office on the other side of the Atlantic makes me very happy! #Newyork #books #journeys #1965

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Elpis Counselling and Psychotherapy @elpiscounselling.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

'Existential phenomenology attempts to characterise the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself.' An eternal truth, if we don't understand the other person's experience and their internal world, how can we help them heal and grow? #psychotherapy #counselling #mentalhealth #rdlaing

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Captain Zenscuel is Taking a Break @captainzenscuel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I suppose I don't talk about my autism that much, but I can completely understand this. I have a carefully built mask I have to maintain and wear whenever I'm dealing with people I'm not comfortable with and its a constant drain and stress. The urge to isolate and vegetate is often strong.

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British Psychotherapy Foundation @psychotherapy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

‘It is not merely that we, the audience, may be hypnotized by what leaders say, but rather that they may well be under their own spell, weaving a delusion with their words to further insulate themselves from reality.' Read Jamieson Webster's essay here: bit.ly/4ioe6Ye LARB Quarterly #freud

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Freudulence | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 06/12/2024

Autistic creator Ashley Storrie's lauded series Dinosaur has "great charm and unassuming depth, with a sharply observed running theme about the unseen but relentless daily accommodations that neurodiverse people have to make to exist in the neurotypical world." www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

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‘Am I allowed to be funny?’ Ashley Storrie on acting, autism – and grieving her mum, Janey Godley

The Scottish comedian received two Baftas last month, just after the death of her mother. She discusses secrets, sadness, success and how comedy sustains her

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