Britain’s abortion laws would be tightened for the first time in more than 20 years under cross-party proposals recently unveiled. Senior MPs, including former Labour minister Frank Field and Conservative Nadine Dorries, a former nurse, will attempt to change the law so that women must be referred to an independent therapist for counselling before they [...]
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Of all fields of medicine, psychology seems especially prone to fads. Freudian dream analysis, recovered memory therapy, eye movement desensitization for trauma — lots of once-hot psychological theories and treatments eventually fizzled. Now along comes mindfulness therapy, a meditation-based treatment with foundations in Buddhism and yoga that’s taking off in private practices and university psychology [...] Gerard Egan, PhD, is a Professor of Organisation Development and Psychology and author of The Skilled Helper. He has written over a dozen books, some in the field of counselling, including Interpersonal Living and People in Systems. The Skilled Helper is currently the most widely used counselling text in the world. Most of the counselling [...] Self-harm, also known as self-injury, self-inflicted violence, self-injurious behaviour, or self-mutilation, can be defined as the deliberate, direct injury of one’s own body that causes tissue damage or leave marks for more than a few minutes and that is done in order to deal with an overwhelming or distressing situation. Approximately 1% of the population [...] A neuron is a nerve cell that receives, processes, and transmits information to other cells in the body. We each have a set number of neurons, so unlike other cells they don’t regenerate. Approximately 10,000 of the neurons in our bodies die everyday. Although this seems a very large number we each start out with [...] Carl Rogers based his theories on the following nineteen propositions. 1. All individuals (organisms) exist in a continually changing world of experience (phenomenal field) of which they are the centre. 2. The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced and perceived. This perceptual field is “reality” for the individual. 3. The organism reacts [...] |
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