Counselling & Psychotherapy
Who are you when you’re not managing someone else’s emotions? What do you actually want when there’s no one to perform for? These questions often surface after leaving a narcissistic relationship and the inability to answer them can be profoundly unsettling. What you’re experiencing goes far deeper than confusion or low self-esteem and this requires […]
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Why You Can’t Leave Someone Who Hurts You: Understanding Trauma Bonding in Narcissistic Abuse You know they’re harming you. You’ve catalogued the lies, the manipulation, the cruelty that comes out of nowhere. On paper, the case for leaving is overwhelming. Your friends have stopped asking when you’ll go because they’ve run out of ways to
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The Role of Empathy In Personality Change: What is the role of empathy in personality change during therapy? A Person-Centred Exploration. The role of empathy in personality change will be explored in this essay. I will examine the relationship that empathy has with the other five “necessary and sufficient conditions” (Rogers 1957, p.95) and the
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The Thwarted Self: How Narcissistic Abuse Dismantles Congruence and Blocks Our Natural Drive Toward Growth. A person-centred perspective.
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A systematic review of the existing literature on the person-centred experiential approach to post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth to establish if it is an effective therapeutic approach. Submitted as part of my Masters in Counselling & Psychotherapy.
A brief history on the development of a ‘radical’ approach The person-centred approach was developed by the psychologist, Dr Carl Rogers from 1940 onwards. Prior to this, the dominant form of therapy was psychoanalytic psychotherapy (Feltham, 2013), an approach developed by Sigmund Freud in the 1890’s which focused largely on interpretation and analysis of past
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