Islam: what are we to do?
Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by Ben.
We are living in a culture of tolerance and freedom in the West. We allow others to migrate to our countries and they often bring with them a clash of laws and values to our own. As we are preaching tolerance and ratifying this with racial vilification laws we are getting to the point where [...]
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Carbon Tax Debacle
Posted on 04. Jan, 2011 by Ben.
This is not my usual topic on this site – but hey, let’s not limit or restrict ourselves. This is a warning post to all Australians and in fact all people living in Western nations in the world. Our government is currently debating how a carbon tax will be taken from us, The People. I [...]
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Schizophrenia: a different approach – according to Dr. Clarence D. McKenzie
Posted on 26. Dec, 2010 by Ben.
In this youtube video, Dr. McKenzie, a US based psychiatrist, discusses his approach to treating schizophrenia.
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Antidepressants : are they really the one-stop-shop cure for depression??
Posted on 10. Nov, 2010 by Ben.
Between 2008 and 2009 $743 million was spent on antidepressants in Australia. GPs are prescribing most of these antidepressants (85%) and they have little time to scrutinize the medical journals and publications that provide so-called ‘evidence’ for the use of these pills in treating depression, not to mention the use of medications in general. So [...]
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How to be a man: wrestling with blame, responsibility and courage
Posted on 29. Oct, 2010 by Ben.
This article might also read: “how to be an adult…”. A major problem befalling us in our development as adults is this: the inner child is reluctant to let go of the tight grip on the being that you are. Whilst the ‘inner child’ will always be a part of you it may not possess [...]
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The ease of cynicism
Posted on 24. Oct, 2010 by Ben.
Generally speaking, we in the West have it so easy these days. Yet people complain a lot, become bitter and cynical. It is easy to become cynical when we forget how good things really are. This is an age where people are safer, healthier, happier and more educated than we have ever been before. We [...]
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The pain body surfaces
Posted on 17. Oct, 2010 by Ben.
Here is a selection of Bible verse, for Christians lay and active, committed and confused, and for the rest of us who are neither here nor there. This, regardless, is for times of tremendous calamity, when the pain body surfaces and all other lights go dim – (Isaiah 5:24). It is powerful and truthful, comforting [...]
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The Wise Wildman
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Ben.
Men are losing sense of themselves at an alarming rate. In many ways we have lost our innate power and we live in fear. We don’t know what a man is supposed to be or do or know. Gender and sexual identity confusion is endemic. Most of us have heard of ‘identity crisis’, and this [...]
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Despair: the ultimate luxury
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Ben.
Who would have thought that a psychologist working with human suffering every day, would call despair a ‘luxury’. And yet I do. Giving into despair is all about taking the path of least resistance; not having to try any more. What is easiest is to despair, and die, to ‘give up’. It requires an absence [...]
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The Nature of the Beast: Anger problems and how to overcome them
Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by Ben.
(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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Transcending attachment issues: inner healing and resilience
Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Ben.
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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Lost in Time: how temporal dislocation screws us up
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Ben.
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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Attachment and reflective feedback: how others treat you and why
Posted on 17. Apr, 2010 by Ben.
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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Addictions: how to fight yourself
Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by Ben.
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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Greek Philosophy
Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by Ben.
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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Working with men
Posted on 04. Apr, 2010 by Ben.
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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