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General Interest · 04. June 2020

ACCREDITATION & PROFESSIONALISM

ACCREDITATION AND PROFESSIONALISM Originally published in 2015. For those not in the know, back then we called our work Multi-Generational Psychotraumatology, and the method was known as The Constellaton of the Intention. Some people who are considering joining the London training in Multi-Generational Psycho-Traumatology and The Constellation of the Intention are asking me more in depth questions about exams, qualifications, accreditation and professional organisations, so I thought I would...

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General Interest · 04. June 2020

ACCREDITATION AND LEGALITY IN THE UK

ACCREDITATION AND LEGALITY IN THE UK Originally published in 2015. For those not in the know, back then we called our work Multi-Generational Psychotraumatology, and the method was known as The Constellaton of the Intention. Legality in the UK - the legal status of the designations 'psychotherapist', 'counsellor' and 'therapist' At this time there is no legal status for a psychotherapist in the UK: "In some countries, most notably the United States, individual practitioners are required by law...

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General Interest · 04. June 2020

So you want to be an IOPT practitioner?

As a result of the current 'pandemic' many IOPT practitioners, including Franz Ruppert and myself, have gone online. This has resulted in some interesting realisations about working with IOPT and the Intention Method in this way. Firstly, it works; not only does it work, but it actually works very well and gives some significant advantages: Suddenly IOPT is becoming much more visible across the world... I have heard many times at my online events people saying they have only just heard about...

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General Interest · 12. August 2019

"my mother was a perpetrator..."

What does it mean to say "my mother was a perpetrator"

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General Interest · 05. April 2018

a perspective on sexuality...

This piece is written by Professor Franz Ruppert, and originated in response to a discussion on the IoPT Facebook page. Thank you Franz for your contribution. To call one’s sexuality ‘hetero’, ‘homo’, ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’, ‘trans’, ‘queer’ etc. does not say anything about the quality of one’s sexuality, how I act my sexuality out – alone or with a partner. Also naming it ‘normal’, ‘natural’ or ‘colourful’ is often more an attempt to justify it for public...

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General Interest · 30. November 2017

Stages of Healing

Trauma of Identity The trauma of identity means that I am not able to be myself; I lose my true identity in the moment in which this trauma happens. My survival of this trauma at that earliest time of my life, usually pre-birth, meant that I had to give up on my wants, my identity, and identify with the wants and needs of my mother, with her identity instead. We call this identification. This is the strategy for surviving a Trauma of Identity. To exist is to have needs... and wants. They are...

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General Interest · 25. February 2017

Trauma of identity and the unwanted child

In general we tend to think that our life begins at our birth. Our 'birth day' is the day we celebrate each year. And yet there is a whole nine months of life before this that we have already lived that we rarely consider. Our life actually begins at conception. That is the day we really should celebrate, but usually we know little about this day. Our mother may not even know when we were conceived*. In Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy we see this time that we spend inside the body of our...

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General Interest · 13. February 2017

trauma, consciousness & the 'banality of evil'

Hanna Arendt used the term 'banality of evil' in relation to her witnessing of the trial of Adolf Echimann for crimes against humanity in Israel in 1961.

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General Interest · 19. September 2016

Who am I... really?

Who am I… really? Thoughts on Identity and Identification There's a difference between acknowledging a fact about yourself, and identifying yourself with something. Identification is a substitute for identity, it is a trauma survival strategy. A fact about myself is that I was born in the UK and so have a British passport. This means I am British. Emotional identification with being British, however is a way in which I outsource my identity because of a lack of real identity; this is due to...

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General Interest · 08. May 2016

"What's in a name?" - attributions and identifications

In Juliet's famous 'balcony' speech she laments the name of her beloved, Romeo Montague:

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 On the Trauma of Identity and the Trauma of Love:

"As the mother’s psyche is split, so her heart is split also."

(From my forthcoming book, Who Am I? - Trauma & Identity, due out late 2020)



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Personal statement: I am a psychotrauma therapist (originally a Gestalt psychotherapist) with over 30 years experience. My passion is working with people where there is the possibility of real, healthy emotional contact, where truth is honoured, and reality takes precedence over illusions. For more about me click here.


"All the trauma in the world comes originally from children trying to adjust to environments that are sometimes crazily impossible for them to understand and manage." 

Taken from my next book, due out late 2020.


Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. 

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet


"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."     Jack Kerouac.



What is the purpose of Life?

To live a good life, and to come to know who I really am.



"There are so many people in the world who have a good amount of 'healthy I'; it's just that they also have unresolved trauma and slide so easily into their survival strategies and ruin it all for themselves." (Vivian)


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German Versions of some blogs

"My mother was a perpetrator" 12/8/19

 

Will and I - Tales from the edge 8/8/19

 

That Blasted Rock - a poem by Kate Collier 1/6/19

 

Considering Your Intention 13/4/18

 

A Perspective on Sexuality 5/4/18

 

What does it mean to be in our 'Healthy Self'? 08/03/16

 

Stages of Healing 30/11/17

 

Steps to Understanding Re-traumatisation 24/4/17

 

Trauma of Identity & the Unwanted Child 25/2/17

 

Trauma, Consciousness & 'the Banality of Evil'

 

Who am I... really? 19/9/16

 

The Intention Method 3/8/16

 

"What's in a name?" - identifications and attributions 8/5/16

 

What does it mean to be in our 'Healthy Self'? 8/3/16


On my previous website I had many more blog posts... but I decided to prune them. If in doing that I have pruned out your comments, my apologies.

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