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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 [...]

Roberto Assagioli (1888 – 1974) was an Italian psychiatrist who developed an integrated approach to psychiatry in the early 20th century. He looked at the theories of Freud (psychoanalysis), Jung, existential psychology and Christian philosophies in developing his theory of psychosynthesis. Psychosynthesis is another word used to describe human growth. It is the ongoing process of bringing [...]

The idea of a private and public persona comes from social psychology, the word persona originating from the Latin meaning ‘mask’. Do we wear different masks depending on the situations we find ourselves in? What is our private and public self? Our private self consists of what we are and feel inside, while our public self is the identity [...]