I’ll be posting articles and audio-visual recordings up here regularly on whatever I feel inspired to write about and present on. I’ll also present the work of others that I find interesting and constructive. I hope it helps you in some way. If you have anything you would like to add, or any questions you’d [...]
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(c) by Ben Bruce. I have a lot of patients coming in to see me with anger problems. This has led me by necessity to come up with integral and effective ways to deal with anger and aggression problems. People are often seeking to understand why they are so angry and they often feel powerless [...]
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This is basically a ‘part 2′ expanding the previous article entitled: ‘Attachment and reflective feedback: how others treat you and why’. The reason I have provided this is due to the comments I received about the article, where people were still saying ‘okay I get all that, but how do I FIX my problems now?!’ [...]
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Temporal dislocation is a term I have coined to make sense of how people react to their own experience of the passage of time. How we let time affect us, how we relate to past, present and future, what we focus on and how and where we get stuck has a huge bearing on our [...]
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Why do people treat you the way they do? Why do we attract bad people into our lives? Why does the same thing keep happening where I end up hurt and emotionally winded? Can this fatalism be changed? A lot of this is based on your ‘Attachment Style’ and YES, this can be changed. Your [...]
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A drug addict has a terrible burden to carry. For drug addicts it can often seem as if they are fighting themselves to abstain from the drug and do what is good and right and healthy. How can you fight your self? Rather, how can we help someone liberate themselves from drug addiction and fight [...]
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This is an audio recording of myself talking about Ancient Greek philosophy, and hopefully you’ll enjoy it. (Remember kids: learning can be fun!)
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As a psychologist working with people, I might also be referred to as a counsellor, psychotherapist, therapist, mental health professional or ‘shrink’. We need a diverse raft of skills to work with all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds. One of the often overlooked niche areas in counselling is working with men as [...]
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There are certain habits of mind that can make depression stick around and that can make a person more vulnerable to depression relapse. These features of ‘mindlessness’ also apply for things like anxiety and other mental health problems. Fundamentally this is based on your relationship with your own mind. Learning to be aware of these [...]
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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder whereby a person engages in obsessive thoughts and compulsive rituals that he or she feels unable to stop
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Never underestimate the importance of exercise and sport in maintaining a healthy body, mind and soul. Studies have shown that regular exercise can have the same effect on depression, anxiety and other mental health issues as anti-depressants. Tiger Woods is currently in Australia for the Australian Masters Golf Tour. Golf is a particularly excellent sport as it [...]
