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Horticultural Therapy – Fiann Ó Nualláin

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Horticultural Therapy – Fiann Ó Nualláin

Horticultural therapy is an emerging field of clinical practice based on proven benefits to the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing that accrues from gardening as a healing or therapeutic process. ‘Nature interaction’, ‘outdoors activity’...

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Michael O BrienMar 30No Comments

My life with borderline personality disorder- By Fiona Kennedy

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My life with borderline personality disorder- By Fiona Kennedy

My life with borderline personality disorder- ‘I’ve always felt like an outsider, an imposter, someone who was tolerated’ Fiona Kennedy underwent treatment for depression and had long stints in hospital before being diagnosed with an...

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Michael O BrienMar 23No Comments

ICPPD’s Online Personal Development Course

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ICPPD’s Online Personal Development Course

(Excerpts from lesson 1, week 1 of ICPPD’s On-Line Personal Development Course) In this lesson I invite you to take the opportunity to reflect on and identify – what it is you would like to get from this course, and what you would like to change...

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Michael O BrienMar 16No Comments

On Endings… by Karen Wallace

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On Endings… by Karen Wallace

‘Endings are only a necessity, a necessity for new beginnings…’ (Grana, 1991) Just as all living things must at some point reach a natural ending, so must psychotherapy. From the outset all the work that clients undertake propels them...

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Michael O BrienMar 09No Comments

Addiction is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté

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Addiction is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté

By John Lavitt 01/06/16 The Fix Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the “disease-prone personality” and the pathology of positive thinking. A Hungarian-born Canadian physician, Dr. Gabor Maté specializes in the study...

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Michael O BrienMar 02No Comments