ccpsychotherapy.uk

11/11/2025

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning.
We will remember them.

For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon

15/09/2025

The erosion of community, the breakdown of the extended family, the pressures on marriage relationships, the harried lives of nuclear families still intact and the growing sense of insecurity even in the midst of relative wealth have all combined to create an emotional milieu in which calm, attuned parenting is becoming alarmingly difficult.

The result in successive generations of children is seen in alienation, drug use and violence—what Robert Bly has astutely described as “the rage of the unparented.”

Bly notes in The Sibling Society that “in 1935 the average working man had forty hours a week free, including Saturday. By 1990, it was down to seventeen hours. The twenty-three lost hours of free time a week since 1935 are the very hours in which the father could be a nurturing father, and find some center in himself, and the very hours in which the mother could feel she actually has a husband.” These patterns characterize not only the early years of parenting, but entire childhoods. “Family meals, talks, reading together no longer take place,” writes Bly. “What the young need—stability, presence, attention, advice, good psychic food, unpolluted stories—is exactly what the sibling society won’t give them.”

Gabor Mate, Scattered Minds

04/06/2025

In fact, you might say that capitalism is in many respects a mental illness generating system – and if we are serious about tackling not only the effects of mental distress and illness, but also their causes and origins, we need to look more closely, more precisely, and more analytically at the nature of the political and economic womb out of which they emerge, and how psychology is fundamentally interwoven with every aspect of it.

By Rod Tweedy Originally published at Red Pepper . Mental illness is now recognised as one of the biggest causes of individual distress and misery in our societies and cities, comparable to poverty and unemployment. One in four adults in the UK today has been diagnosed with a mental illness,

07/05/2025

«Βλέπετε: η λογική, κύριοι, είναι ωραίο πράγμα, δε χωράει συζήτηση, αλλά η λογική είναι μόνο λογική και ικανοποιεί τη λογική ικανότητα του ανθρώπου, ενώ η επιθυμία είναι εκδήλωση όλης της ζωής, δηλαδή, όλης της ανθρώπινης ζωής μαζί με τη λογική κι όλα της τα παρεπόμενα. Η ζωή μας, βέβαια, απ’αυτή την άποψη αποδεικνύεται συχνά τιποτένια, ωστόσο είναι ζωή κι όχι εξαγωγή της τετραγωνικής ρίζας. Εγώ, λόγου χάρη, θέλω να ζήσω φυσιολογικά για να ικανοποιήσω όλες μου τις ικανότητες για τη ζωή κι όχι να ικανοποιήσω μόνο τη λογική μου δυνατότητα, δηλαδή το ένα περίπου εικοστό όλης της ικανότητάς μου για ζωή. Τι ξέρει η λογική; Η λογική ξέρει μόνο αυτό που πρόλαβε να μάθει (ορισμένα πράγματα, ίσως ποτέ δε θα τα μάθει. Αυτό, βέβαια, δεν είναι παρήγορο, αλλά για ποιον λόγο να μην το πούμε;) ενώ η ανθρώπινη φύση λειτουργεί συνολικά με ό,τι έχει μέσα της, συνειδητά ή ασύνειδα, μπορεί να ξεγελά, αλλά ζεί».

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Το Υπόγειο.
Πίνακας: Departure Of The Winged Ship - Vladimir Kush

03/04/2025

LCPC offers timely and affordable psychodynamic counselling to the local community. We are open and available to take on clients between 9am and 7pm Monday to Friday. We can offer contracts for up to 2 years and currently have no waiting list to be seen.

If you would like to arrange an assessment appointment please contact Jay at lcpc.no12@gmail.com or text to 07961709575.

07/03/2025

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