Freud & creature comforts

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents

Play therapy: free from worries

UPDATE:Professional Development Training in South Africa 2017

In my internet surfing I have come across these psychotherapy continuing professional training options in South Africa, listed below. Do you know of any others?

www.factnetwork.co.za (PTA)

www.appliedjung.com

www.educationunlimited.co.za

www.childtrauma.co.za

www.playtherapysa.co.za.

www.redshoescentre.co.za (Play Therapy)

www.gestaltplaytherapy.co.za

www.familyzone.co.za

www.vistaclinic.co.za (Pretoria)

www.estherapy.co.za (Play Therapy in Pretoria)

www.crescentclinic.co.za

www.shiphouse.co.za/workshops (Potchestroom)

www.meisa.biz/workshops

www.neuropsychologysa.co.za

www.sasch.co.za

www.elizemorkel.co.za (Narrative Therapy in Cape Town)

www.cpdworkshop.co.za (in Eastern Cape)

www.schematherapysouthafrica.co.za/workshops (Schema Therapy)

www.cognitive-behaviour-therapy.co.za/training (CBT)

www.ipcp.co.za (Psychodynamic Therapy in JHB, CT, Durban)

www.jpccc.org.za

shrinkrap@mweb.co.za (in JHB)

irenetrauma@gmail.com (in PTA)

www.mastersoninstitute.co.za

www.iasp.webs.com (Rorschach and reading groups)

www.ububele.org  (e.g. group work, early parent-infant in JHB)

www.psychworkshops.co.za (Solution-Focused Therapy in JHB, Durban, Bloem, and online)

www.psychologyafrica.com

www.accinsa.co.za

www.saap.za.net/activities-training/activities

www.familylife.org.za/ www.famsa.org.za

www.sandplay.co.za / www.barbaraturner.org  (JHB)

www.health.uct.ac.za/departments/psychiatry/courses (CT)

PsyCad at www.uj.ac.za

www.eftsouthafrica.com

www.mindfulness.org.za

www.satoripsychotherapy.co.za

www.ctselfpsychology.org.za (CT)

www.jungsouthernafrica.org.za (CT)

www.taasa.org.za / www.transactional-analysis.co.za

www.imagotraining.co.za

www.dramatherapy.co.za

www.arttherapycentre.co.za/arttherapytraining

www.explorecreativeself.co.za

www.cpdwell.co.za (in Stellenbosch and online)

www.judyrankin.co.za

Sandplay: Doc ready to do sandwork!

Sandplay: Ready for the ball

Sandplay: Tangled free

Sandplay: Trading in the Alps for sunshine

Down from the Swiss Alps and getting ready to emigrate to a South African sandtray in Parkhurst in 2013!

Sandplay: Beautiful Belle!

Woman as unexplored

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"' 

Sigmund Freud

Giving life to authenticity

“We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.” 
― Hélène Cixous

Carl Jung: The Red Book

Sandplay: Beast arrives

From the north pole

Can't wait to use them in Sandplay therapy back in Johannesburg!

Disrupted attachments

Psychotherapist Kate White of The Bowlby Centre in London explores the development of insecure attachments developing in infants and children. She found that the classic The Story of Babar explores how our attachments to our loved ones can become disrupted through loss or unavailability of parental care.
                                                  

Sandplay: Wise owl flies in

Journeying to your true self

"But what if you, being a swan, had to pretend you were a mouse? What if you had to pretend to be gray and furry and tiny? What if you had no long snaky tail to carry in the air on tail-carrying day? What if wherever you went you tried to walk like a mouse, but you waddled instead? What if you tried to talk like a mouse, but instead out came a honk every time? Wouldn't you be the most miserable creature in the world?

The answer is an unequivocal yes. So why, if this is all so and too true, do women keep trying to bend and fold themselves into shapes that are not theirs? I must say, from years of clinical observation of this problem, that most of the time it is not because of deep-seated masochism or a malignant dedication to self-destruction or anything of that nature. More often it is because the woman simply doesn't know any better."

Clarissa Estes from Women Who Run With Wolves.

blissful heights

Fighter elephant and african warrior

Sandplay Collections around the globe

Puzzlement of feelings

So exciting feeling puzzles for play therapy just purchased them this week at www.ingoodcompany.co.za.
And today I just purchased more Schleich in Switzerland for sandplay...Christmas shopping galore!

Worthy of Imitation!

Holly Barnes' article in the latest Weigh-Less Magazine discusses the pros and cons of role-models in teen's lives!

Digging 'diep' into the South African soul

Freedom in creativity!

Sandplay intensive coming soon!

Sandplay therapy intensive training from the 4th to 9th of March 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Engaging the Other!

What a fantastic conference Engaging the Other 2012 in Bloemfontein at the University of the Free State, was over the last few days! Highly recommended!

Pick-up-sticks super-sized!

One of my favourite rapport builders and identifying feeling games in play therapy- just got a massive upgrade! Giant pick-up-sticks at www.ingoodcompany.co.za

Sandplay buildings in a jiffy!

I am a shopaholic when it comes to collecting miniatures for Sandplay therapy - and have just purchased Sandplay buildings from www.ingoodcompany.co.za which I have been waiting for in anticipation to arrive at my sister's store. Yes! Christmas has arrived early for a sandplay enthusiast!