Monthly Archives: January 2011

Whilst it is good news that more people believe it is better to talk to someone about their problems than take medication (‘Good news for therapists’ p28, The Independent Practitioner, winter 2010), perhaps we, as therapists, should do more to … Continue reading →

I came across this quotation in an article by Howard Jacobson in his column in The Independent on Saturday 13th November 2010 – ‘How happiness can inspire great art’. “Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden … Continue reading →

I came across the following in Dorothy Rowe’s Why We Lie (p7): What determines our behaviour is not what happens to us but how we interpret what happens to us.

A bit late I know but then Christmas and New Year were a little hectic to say the least. Two weeks before Christmas my wife, Heather, had an accident in her car on black ice cracking her sternum which severely … Continue reading →