Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Getting in touch with the wild in Sandplay
SYMBOLS: a name, term, picture or image which is familiar in daily life, yet has other connotations besides its conventional and obvious meaning. Symbols imply the partially unknown or hidden, and is never precisely defined. Symbols carry important messages and meanings from the unconscious to the conscious mind.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Beyond expectation
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Coming to consciousness
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious" -Carl Jung.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Monday, November 16, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Psychotherapy in Moreleta Park, PTA
Psychotherapy available in Moreleta Park, Pretoria. Contact details: 079 434 8444.
Safe havens and secure bases
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/41957-John_Bowlby
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/41957-John_Bowlby
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/41957-John_Bowlby
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/41957-John_Bowlby
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1269127
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1269127
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1269127
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1269127
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Encountering each other authentically
appreciate you without judging,
join you without invading,
invite you without demanding,
leave you without guilt,
criticize you without blaming,
and help you without insulting.
If I can have the same from you,
then we can truly meet and enrich each other.” -Virginia Satir
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
CPD Update 2016: Psychology professional development or training opportunities in South Africa
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?
http://appliedjung.com (JHB)
www.educationunlimited.co.za
www.childtrauma.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.affectregulationtherapy.com
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
www.familyzone.co.za
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Queen of Shemakha & The Golden Cockerel
Images: Margarita Kareva
... the magus, brought before him, From beneath his ample frock
Drew a golden weathercock.
"Let this golden bird," he chanted,
"High atop the spire be planted,
And my clever Cockerel
Be your faithful sentinel.
...Behold, the curtains part
On the tent. . .The prize of maidens,
Queen of Shamakhan, in radiance
Lambent like the morning star,
Quietly salutes the Tsar.
Silenced by her brilliant gaze
Like a nightbird by the day's,
Numb he stands - her sight outstuns...
Now she looked at him, beguiling,
Swept a graceful bow and, smiling,
Took his hand and drew him on
To her tent came Tsar Dadon.
At her table did she seat him
"Just you give me what I won,
This young queen of Shamakhan,"
Piped the sage in former fashion.
"No!" the Tsar spat, in a passion!
...Gone the empress sight unseen,
Just as though she'd never been.
Yalom's new therapy tales & an autobiographical film!
An important film for anyone interested in the human mind and our capacity to understand it and each other. Best-selling author, popular scholar and existentialist, 80-year-old Irvin D. Yalom is one of the most influential living psychotherapists in the world.
This documentary is a journey through the many layers of the human mind, in which Yalom shares his insights and wisdom, which stress the importance of relationships. Dr Yalom’s books have sold millions of copies and critics describe him as “mind-bending”, “stunning”, “inspiring” and “life-changing”.
"All of us
are creatures of a day,” wrote Marcus Aurelius, “rememberer and remembered
alike.” In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist
Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients’ struggles—as well as his own—to come to
terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful
life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end.
In these pages, we meet a
nurse, angry and adrift in a morass of misery where she has lost a son to a
world of drugs and crime, and yet who must comfort the more privileged through
their own pain; a successful businessman who, in the wake of a suicide,
despairs about the gaps and secrets that infect every relationship; a newly
minted psychologist whose study of the human condition damages her treasured
memories of a lost friend; and a man whose rejection of philosophy forces even
Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence.
Creatures
of a Day is funny, earthy, and often shocking; it is a
radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life, but also a
celebration of some of the finest fruits—love, family, friendship—that life can
bear. We are all creatures of a day.
Jung & Cinderella
The collective unconscious can be characterised as the body of knowledge with which all human beings are born. This knowledge is characterised by archetypes that represent inborn and universal ways of perceiving the world. Therefore, archetypes are notably reflected in fairytales.
Cinderella is the most universal fairytale theme, with over 700 versions worldwide. The story of abandonment, loss of love and recognition is known to humankind.
Films portraying genuinely meaningful archetypal figures create living icons that are used by
filmgoers as important personal anchors (Hirschman 2000). 
Archetypes: Snow White & The Wicked Queen
Jungians closely examine fairytales symbolically to understand personal complexes and stories that are based on profound ancient archetypal patterns which inform them. The aim is to glean the underlying message from the personal unconscious and collective unconscious as it holds the potential to inform and nourish one's individuation process.
Indeed, Snow White involves the confrontation of a woman's psyche with her more shadowy aspects. Snow White in meeting the Seven Dwarves is on her pathway to wholeness, providing her with hospitality, creative energy, truths and earthy wisdom.
Snow White in eating the Wicked Queen's poisoned apple is confronted with the darker aspects of life and her psyche, and in the subsequent coffin-like deep process she awakens to her devoted Prince and her maturation.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Snapshot of Therapy: Good Will Hunting
....So if I asked you about art you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that.
If I asked you about women you’d probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.
You’re a tough kid. I ask you about war, and you’d probably, uh, throw Shakespeare at me, right? “Once more into the breach, dear friends.” But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap and watched him gasp his last breath, looking to you for help.
And if I asked you about love you probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone could level you with her eyes. Feeling like! God put an angel on earth just for you…who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel and to have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. You wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term visiting hours don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.
I look at you; I don’t see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you’re a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and you ripped my fuckin’ life apart.
You’re an orphan right? Do you think I’d know the first thing about how hard ! your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don’t give a shit about all that, because you know what? I can’t learn anything from you I can’t read in some fuckin’ book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. And I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t wanna do that, do you, sport? You’re terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
Germinating soul language
YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.
They can be magnificent co-creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.” - Nicole Bonomi
They can be magnificent co-creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.” - Nicole Bonomi
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