Paul Salvage Psychotherapy

09/02/2022

"I find you;
You survive what I do to you as I come to
recognise you as not–me; I use you;
I forget you;
But you remember me; I keep forgetting you;
I lose you;
I am sad."

/Winnicott: Communication between infant and mother, and mother and infant, compared and contrasted, 1968, p. 103/

27/03/2021

Hello, here is a link to may latest blog on addiction and how good advice rarely works.https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/whats-wrong-with-good-advice/

17/10/2020

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all?

22/07/2020

Film release date fall 2020. Stay tuned! If you would like to receive updates from us regarding the film, please go to: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/...

10/07/2020

The Psychiatrist's I know working in the field do have a much more nuanced view but the actual discipline of Psychiatry, which if you've ever flicked through British Journal of Psychiatry is overwhelmingly biological.

Researchers find that UK psychiatrists are at odds with one another and support divergent understandings of psychosis.

02/07/2020

Nice little 1 minute audio at the end.

TEKUTÁ MODERNITA - NOVÉ VYDÁNÍ (ZYGMUNT BAUMAN)

Neškodí nám současný velký důraz na individualismus? To je jedno z hlavních témat knihy Tekutá modernita, jenž dnes vychází v novém vydání. Jde o nejvýznamnější a nejcitovanější dílo polsko-britského židovského sociologa a intelektuála Zygmunta Baumana (1925-2017). Ten v něm vychází z Freudovy teze z 'Nespokojenosti v kultuře' o potřebě vyváženosti mezi osobní svobodou jednotlivce a civilizačních omezení a tradic (tj. superega). A domnívá se, že v současné době se díky velkému důrazu na individualismu tato vyváženost ztratila. Mnoho lidí pak ve svých životech cítí úzkost podobnou situaci, kdy pasažéři sedí v letadle řízené autopilotem a nikdo neví, kam vlastně letí. Pevná modernita s pevnými a srozumitelnými společenskými pravidly, jak žít naše životy, "zkapalněla" do tekuté těžko uchopitelné formy, ve které se nejeden člověk může ztrácet. V psychoterapiích a psychoanalýzách v současné době nejde vůbec o vzácné téma..

Kniha je už několik let prakticky nedostupná i v antikvariátech a knihovnách. (Je však možné sehnat některé další Baumanovy knihy - Tekutá láska, Cizinci před branami apod.) Takže doporučujeme si knížku pořídit domů, než bude zase rozebraná.

(Pokud chcete malou ochutnávku Baumanova uvažování, tak si doporučujeme poslechnout toto jeho tříminutové krásné zamyšlení o tom, co je to vlastně štěstí - https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/12/thinking-happiness-wrong-161219115849195.html)

25/06/2020

I’ve not really digested what he’s saying here but I listened to a podcast about him recently and he seems like a big hearted dude.

EMMANUEL GHENT O ROZDÍLU MEZI ODEVZDÁNÍM SE ("SURRENDER") A MASOCHISMEM

"(...) surrender, implies not defeat but a quality of liberation and ‘letting-go‘. I have explored the thesis that at least in some instances masochism is the result of a distortion or perversion of a deep longing for surrender, a yearning to be known, recognized, "penetrated," and often represents the miscarriage of a wish to dismantle false self. Similarly, some instances of sa**sm are traceable to the obverse of this phenomenon: a failure in the consummation of a more active "penetrative" type of surrender as in object usage. Successful transition from object relating to object usage involves an act of surrender and risk-taking on the part of the infant (or later, patient), as well as a degree of surrender on the part of the facilitating caretaker, or later, analyst."

Object relating - nerozlišování mezi sebou a druhou blízkou osobou, omnipotentní nevědomé vztahování se k druhému člověku, jako by nám patřil. Object usage - zralejší vztahování se k druhému blízkému člověku jako k nezávislému subjektu.

Celý text dostupný anglicky zde:http://www.wawhite.org/uploads/PDF/E1f_9%20Ghent_E_Masochism.pdf

(Existuje i český překlad. Ale velkou kvalitou zrovna neoplývá.)

23/06/2020

A part of psychotherapy can be about creating a space for that littl girl, not taking away the pain, that can’t be done, but giving it a space to speak and be witnessed.

14/06/2020

27/05/2020

Great talk clearly conceptualising the concept of the unconscious

This talk will look at Freud's 'discovery' of the unconscious, and at his conceptualisation of it

05/01/2018

I have always been interested in working with adolescence, not least because of my own extended adolescent experience. As always a good video regarding Adolescence from the SOL.

It's miserable to be unhappy in your teenage years - but it is also profoundly important. It's hard to imagine adulthood going well if there haven't been qui...

16/12/2017

With one in four teenage girls being depressed, it’s clear that there is no shortage of people needing help, says Guardian writer and editor Susanna Rustin

15/12/2017

At times we are faced with patients who seem disconnected from us and from other people, and from themselves and within themselves. Or are they really so unconnected?

04/09/2017

This film is part of a forthcoming volume of short films, entitled: "On Groups, Couples (and Being Alone): The Short Films of Garrick Duckler, Volume 2." If ...

30/03/2017

So it is in relationships with other people that one learns
to understand oneself. And by understanding one’s self,
one begins to understand other people. Thus the world of
relationships is both the problem to be solved and the
means to its solution. (Howe et el 1991)

To develop normally, a child requires progressively more
complex joint activity with one or more adults who have
an irrational emotional relationship with the child.
Somebody’s got to be crazy about the kid.
That’s number one. First, last, and always.
(Bronfenbrenner, 1971)
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