Dr Renier du Toit, a qualified Clinical Psychologist, life and health coach and a Doctor of natural medicine writes about Amino acid therapy for Depression.
There is a long history of using amino acids in the treatment of depression. Amino acids were discovered in the early 1900s and used until the 1980s as the mainstay for treating of depression. Amino acids have continued to be a popular option for natural medicine modalities like naturopathy and herbalism in the treatment of depression. Read Amino Acid Therapy for Depression here
I was drawn to Core Process Psychotherapy as it rests on a contemplative foundation. While the training is long and rigorous, what is being cultivated is a sense of rest and being in the therapist. From this state of presence/being knowing naturally arises in the mutual field created between client and therapist. Read What is Core Process Psychotherapy? here
The aim of this article is to focus on the meaning-making experience of men and women who suffer from psoriasis and the impact of this on the various dimensions of the self-concept. Read Impact of Cutaneous Disease on the Self-Concept here
Very often pain that is being experienced in a marriage is the smarting of an earlier wound, perhaps a wound we acquired as a child in the marriage that created us. And where this is the case a similar process is usually happening for our partner – the pain that he or she is experiencing is the activation of an old wound, a long-ago experience that happened to another person, to the child that we once were. Read Love's great Service here
In this paper Johannesburg based Clinical Psychologist Dr Aharon Segal describes the therapeutic potential of metaphor in psychotherapy. Read Metaphors in psychotherapy here