Review of Part One, 28 January 2017
by Georgia Feliou
The concept of personal identity, which is closely related to the concept of self, has always been a fascinating subject for me even before the time I started studying philosophy and psychotherapy. In 2015, I gave a speech on it in relation to gender
There’s a commonly held misconception that Anorexia and Bulimia are the preserve of girls in their teens and early twenties. Whilst there are many younger women struggling with distressed eating, recently we’ve seen an increase in women in their 40s and 50s and men of all ages struggling with eating and body-image concerns. It’s
By Chaitanya Pankhania, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist
Although there are many factors and layers that cause depression, the real cure is changing your perception. We all view the world through our own filtered perceptions and the way we view the world is subconsciously influenced by our past experiences. Therefore if we had negative life events,
Guilt is something that all mums experience. It comes with the job. Guilt about feeding them the right things, at the right time. Guilt about letting them watch too much TV. Guilt about leaving them with a babysitter if you really, really need a night out.
Paula Bendon, Harley Street Therapist, was approached by
By Paula Bendon, MSc, PG dip, PG Cert, MBPsS, MBACP, ACBS, – Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist
It is very common for mothers to struggle bonding with their babies. Mothers can be filled with guilt, shame and self criticism for not instantly bonding with their newborn. It can be even harder when friends and
By Paula Bendon, Counselling Psychology
Are you like many people in the UK, struggling with your emotions or having relationship troubles, feel you this is part of human nature and the demands of a Western culture are adding to the burden we put on our minds, bodies and soul. One in five people suffers
Many heavy things are there for the spirit, the strong load-bearing spirit in which reverence dwells: for the heavy and the heaviest longest its strength.
What is heavy? so asked the load-bearing spirit; then knelled it down like the camel, and wanted to be well laden.
What is the heaviest thing, ye heroes? asked
t in the loneliest wilderness happen the second metamorphosis: here the spirit become a lion; freedom will it capture, and lord-ship in its own wilderness.
Its last Lord it here seeketh: hostile will it be to him, and to its last God; for victory will it struggle with the great dragon.
What is the
But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child?
Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new begin- ning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea.
Aye, for the game of creating,
I teach you the superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?
All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?
What is the ape
