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Crisis Capitalism and the crisis in our minds.
How Capitalism at its worst, impacts our emotional worlds. Crisis capitalism refers to the practice of exploiting economic, political, or...
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Kernbergs attachment styles.
Numerous clinicians have studied the emotional attachment mechanisms between people. John Bowlby who founded this way of thinking left...
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Propaganda
This, a reflective piece on the paper by Larkin (2020)1 considering the impact of propaganda within the therapeutic setting.
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Mass media consumption
Stacking the plate with beige food. The Singing Ringing Tree. 1957 Maybe as close adult siblings occasionally do, my sisters and I recently enjoyed momentary wonder reminiscing for 1970s & 80s British children’s TV shows. How we came upon this topic is difficult to say but I suspect we were in a particular state of mind. The usual programmes such as Rainbow and Blue Peter invited a shared enthusiasm to keenly recall the more avant-garde. It turns out there were several option
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Narcissism considered.
This comprises general comment on narcissistic thinking and includes supplementary reading, lecture, online notes. (Where 'he' is mentioned, gender is non specific). The infant. The human infant is born uniquely premature and consequently always close to the edge of catastrophe. Without physical touch and emotional contact his form and mind will ache, diffuse & disintegrate. Born this way he is subject to the whims of cultural forces and his environment. He is subjected to
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Opinion. Anxiety in a pandemic.
An image of a road sign not showing which direction to take.
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