COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE The therapeutic alliance is the collaboration between the therapist and client in psychotherapy or counselling. It has been claimed that this alliance is one of the most important aspects of the process, whichever techniques are used … Continue reading →
Karen Horney In line with Adler in particular, Karen Horney strongly believes in an innately constructive nature of the human condition. There is a natural tendency towards positive growth, or self-realisation. Only when this tendency is frustrated, again primarily by … Continue reading →
STRUCTURAL MODEL AND INSTINCT THEORY In line with his structural model, Sigmund Freud conceives of the human personality as evolving in three areas. He termed them id (broadly speaking, the biological), ego (the psychological) and superego (the sociological, or simply … Continue reading →
George Kelly George Kelly is the founder of personal construct psychology. Although his writings are not quite as voluminous as those of most of the other theorists studied on this course, his style has been credited as appealing: Let us … Continue reading →
Jean Piaget Jean Piaget is widely recognised as the most influential developmental psychologist of the twentieth century. His central thesis is that human development occurs through the interaction between maturational processes and the environment. In line with Piagetâs initial training … Continue reading →
Erich Fromm Unlike Freud or Erikson, Erich Fromm advocates no specific developmental stages. Personality can even continue to develop during adulthood, although external influences would obviously have to be proportionately stronger to affect the older, often less impressionable, individual. Like … Continue reading →
Why Smoke? It is important that you are fully aware of the reasons why people start to smoke and why they continue. Perhaps the crucial factor is that a reason may have been valid once, but may no longer be … Continue reading →
RELAX: LEARN TO LET GO! Refresh Yourself With Self-Hypnosis There are countless books on self-hypnosis, what it does, how it works, techniques for use, etc. There are even more books on relaxation, meditation, self-helpand similar subjects. Many hypnotherapists teach self-hypnosis as a part of their … Continue reading →
IMAGINATION/VISUALIZATION What Your Mind Can Conceive, You Can Achieve The subhead appearing above what your mind can conceive, you can achieve presents in eight words the most important message that any person will receive in a lifetime. The dramatic and … Continue reading →
Treating Anxiety and Panic Attacks with Hypnotherapy How can this help? Anxiety is natural, normal & necessary: but is yours just too much? What are the potential benefits? hypnosis is a pleasant, relaxing experience which can help you to develop … Continue reading →
