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Psychotherapy | HIV writing | Ot
http://www.guscairns.com/Advice.htm
Since November last year I've been contributing a weekly Agony Uncle column to the uk.gay.com website. I'm a journalist, I'm a psychotherapist, add the two together, you get agony uncle, eh? Well yeah, except journalists are there to entertain readers, not help people (as if! And psychotherapists don't actually give advice, knowing that everyone's story is infinitely more complex than it may appear on the surface. Sometimes write back and say thank you. Which makes it all worth while.
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Gus Cairns - writer, trainer, consultant, therapist, AIDS activist
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A Journey Through AIDS. In September 2007 I was the keynote speaker at the biennial conference of people living with HIV and AIDS in Taiwan. This semi-autobiographical talk uses my own experience of HIV and AIDS as a starter to talk about t. He epidemic's major themes. The entire photo diary of a walk up. Is now in the travel section. Includes. A couple of introductions to HIV and mental health:. Is the second talk I gave in Taiwan, to the social work team at Taiwan University Hospital. Want to know more?
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Therapy | HIV/AIDS | Pieces/stor
http://www.guscairns.com/Lazarus2.htm
Lazarus 2: radiation poisoning. I thought long and hard before publishing this one in its original form. For two reasons. Firstly, I don’t feel the same as I did when I wrote this (in 1999). I’m not as angry about the anticipated rejection for being HIV positive. Which takes me back to the first point. A recent. Found that 40% of HIV positive men never. Lazarus 2: radiation poisoning. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Oh my God oh my God! Why did you do it? I’ll have to get a test tomorrow. You shouldn’t go ar...
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http://www.guscairns.com/sex.htm
This is a teaser, of course. I'm not going to put my Gaydar profile on here like some people. (Of course I have one.). I will however post the odd sex-related commentary in this section. Such as. It was odd putting this website together, when one page is an advertisement for my psychotherapy practice while other pages include reasonably explicit writing about sexual encounters. Regarding your sexuality as shameful or humiliating is a major driver behind sex addiction and the HIV epidemic. So is the '...
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Therapy | HIV/AIDS | Pieces/stor
http://www.guscairns.com/lazarus6.htm
Nothing to do with sex, drugs or HIV, this one, it just celebrates rock’n’roll, something my life would have been poorer without. Do you hate gay music? Normally my ex-boyfriend Love Rat (more of him another time) is a better dancer than me, but when they put on the Stone Rose's She Bangs the Drum. I went crazy, initially swinging from the stair-rails like a demented chimp, then settling into this spastic gurn routine, yelling. Kiss me where the sun don't shine, the past is yours, the future's mine.
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http://www.guscairns.com/Kilimanjaro.htm
Everyone knows what it looks like; it's one of the world's iconic places, like the Taj Mahal or Macchu Picchu. It's the tallest mountain in the world you can walk up without rock climbing or special equipment. Thanks to global warming, those famous snows will only be around for a few more decades. So when we landed at the grandly-named Kilimajaro International Airport the first thing we asked was: Where's the mountain? So here's me, the fat one in the silly hat, at the National Park gate the following mo...
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http://www.guscairns.com/Zanzibar.htm
Go back to Kilimanjaro.
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Therapy | HIV/AIDS | Pieces/stor
http://www.guscairns.com/lazarus8.htm
I've had writer's block - not for journalism, but for the personal stuff I was pouring into these columns. Now I don't. The following explains why. Lazarus 8 - D*I*V*O*R*C*E. It’s taken me 18 months to even get myself to the point where I can articulate what I feel. Before that, experiencing my emotions clearly enough to write them out was like grasping white-hot metal. We only lived together for the last six months (that was the last straw! No, I call him LoveRat because he’s small, quick, dark and has ...
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Psychotherapy | HIV pieces | Oth
http://www.guscairns.com/Presentations.htm
As examples of my work, here you'll find a number of different presentations and papers I've delivered at various meetings. Some are for training workshops, others are presentations at conferences, round tables, etc. A Journey Through AIDS. Mental health and HIV. A talk given to the social work team at the HIV clinic at Taipei University Hospital, on the same trip. Mental health and HIV. IMPACT 10, Condoms and Beyond. For the Changing the Focus Conference, Edinburgh, 30 June 2006. For CHAPS, 7 March 2006.