Tag psychotherapy
Treating depression – a case for psychotherapy
Feeling down and sad for a long time, feeling hopeless and worthless, finding it difficult to enjoy anything in life including that you used to enjoy before, struggling to make up your mind even about minor things, feeling fatigued a…
Depression – causes, symptoms, treatments
According to the World Health Organisation depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Over the course of a lifetime 16% of the population will at some time be diagnosed with depression, and in any given year 7%…
Supervision and the therapeutic relationship: What does Gestalt have to offer?
Note: This is an academic literature review, written as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Gestalt Therapy. It will not be everyone’s cup of tea, but here it is… Introduction Over the three decades since…
Mindfulness-based therapy
Mindfulness is about non-judgemental awareness in the here-and-now of one’s actual sensory experience + thoughts, feelings, reactions, behaviour and functioning. It is about noticing what is happening in each moment, to fully experience one’s life as it happens, rather than…
Gestalt Awareness and Dialogue
=================================== Gestalt [pronounced gue (as in guest) – sch – tullt] is originally a German word (literally meaning form, shape), incorporated into English, with the meaning “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts”.…