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Truth Anchors: Correspondence, Coherence and Progress in the Digital Storm
In this essay, I want to inquire into the relation between public and private truth by drawing together schools of philosophy, the psychoanalytic process, and the impact of advanced digital technology. The therapeutic journey, like society’s broader truth-seeking, reveals how we negotiate between empirical reality and subjective experience. Likewise, the digital age demands similar discernment… Continue reading
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Questioning the Question: A Therapist’s Guide to the Delicate Art of Interventive Interviewing
In psychotherapy the questions we ask signally shape the therapeutic process. Karl Tomm’s inspiring paper ‘Interventive Interviewing: Intending to Ask Lineal, Circular, Strategic or Reflexive Questions?’ provides critical insights into the impactfulness of different questioning techniques. This essay will focus specifically on the role of questioning in relational-based psychotherapy. I want to examine three questions… Continue reading
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The Work of Therapy in the Age of Artificial Reproduction
Benjamin argues aura persists where transmissible experience still resists mechanisation. hence the obligation of facing fragile personhood endures beyond digitizing therapy’s surface features. While technology cannot replace moral presence, it may widen therapeutic outreach if guided by ethical care rather than vulgar profit. Benjamin exposes grave loss but also emancipatory openings when historic auras fade.… Continue reading
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Reflections from a therapy room 