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Writing in theory and therapy. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. The fee (and free) story. May 30, 2012 · 12:28 am. Writing in theory and therapy. Of course I’m very far from the first to discover the therapeutic power of writing. No doubt it had been recognised for centuries even before the illustrious English poet George, Lord Byron (1788-1842) made his famous observation that if I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. Another celebrated theorist, the ‘neo-Freudian’ Erik Erikson, was inspired by the ‘seven ages of man’ soliloquy from Shakesp...
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Writing therapy. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. Dean Johns combines decades of experience as an advertising copywriter/creative director, journalist, creative writing coach and author mentor with a graduate diploma in counselling in his Sydney-based practice of writing therapy, Write.Mind. Dean Johns is happy to see clients in virtually any location that is both convenient and comfortable for them personally, be it one of the several professional rooms in which he works, or in favourite coffee shops, or outdoors sitting or strol...
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Spelling it out. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. The fee (and free) story. →. August 16, 2011 · 2:40 am. As a passionate believer in the power of being heeded, heard, accepted and understood, I’m extremely grateful for all the validation I’ve been receiving from people who have taken the time and trouble to visit this blogsite and to respond to its contents so positively. Here are the queries she kindly emailed me:. Are you offering an electronic service, or a mix of face to face and electronic? In other words, my clients and I m...
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Writes of passage. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. June 26, 2011 · 10:07 am. It has often been observed that the tragedy of a great many of us men is that we define ourselves by what we do, not who we are. Which is all very fine for conventional career success or even survival. But this focus on our outward roles rather than our inner realities can come at a terrible price. If all this strikes you as too airy-fairy and new-age for words, I wouldn’t be surprised. There was a time when I felt likewise. But then the crunch came. One d...
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Sick of thinking? Try inking. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. A few words about ‘counselling’. Age rage. →. July 9, 2011 · 9:42 am. Do you ever find your mind full of so many competing or conflicting thoughts that you can’t get your head around them all? Or so swirling with notions and emotions that you feel you’re about to spin out? Or so overcome by mental multi-tasking that you fear you’re headed for meltdown? Writing to and through the confusion has a wonderful way of clarifying things. Or, to resort to metaphor, instead of making fut...
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Age rage. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. July 14, 2011 · 10:25 am. When I turned sixty I couldn’t believe it. Impossible , I thought, there must be some mistake. But no, the arithmetic checked out, and my disbelief turned to dismay. Sixty isn’t an age, it’s an outrage , I felt like screaming at myself. Six decades down the drain, and so little to show for it. Have you any idea how little time you’ve got left? Or some plan for making the most of it? But rage at what, exactly? Rage too at not spending enough time relishing ...
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A few words about ‘counselling’. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. Try inking. →. June 30, 2011 · 10:52 am. A few words about ‘counselling’. Of course I have nothing but good to say for the concept of counselling, having studied long and hard for a post-graduate qualification in its theory and practice, and greatly admiring the talents of many of my counselling colleagues. But I do have trouble coming to terms with the actual word. There are several very sound reasons for considering the giving of advice as a professional vice. OK then, I hear you...
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The fee (and free) story. | Dean Johns Write.Mind
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. Writing in theory and therapy. →. March 15, 2012 · 2:14 pm. The fee (and free) story. There’s a cynical and politically-incorrect old saying that goes Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychotherapists collect the rent. It may even have had a basis in truth back in the old days of daily psychoanalytic sessions that sometimes continued for years. So we counsellors by and large have to keep our fees as affordable as possible for our clients. In any ...
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Dean Johns Write.Mind | Writing-enhanced counselling and psychotherapy | Page 2
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Dean Johns Write.Mind. Newer posts →. June 28, 2011 · 12:05 am. On the face of it, writing as a component of counselling or therapy for people who are neither current nor aspiring writers doesn’t make a lot of sense. It’s easy to see how it could benefit would-be or practising writers, professional or otherwise, who find themselves wrestling with so-called ‘writer’s block’ or struggling to find fresh inspiration. A further revelation is that the point of the whole exercise is not the written product, but...
