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 By Graham Wilson, on July 19th, 2011It’s interesting how a random question from someone who doesn’t know you, can make you sit up and think for a moment. I’m a facilitator, but that probably means all kinds of different things to different people and maybe it’s time to explain what I mean by it? I don’t normally find it very … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 26th, 2011Existential psychotherapy is a philosophical approach to therapy that works on the basis that conflict within a person is due to that individual’s confrontation with, what are called, the four ‘givens of existence’. These givens are: The inevitability of death Freedom and the consequence of it… responsibility That we experience the world and all … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 20th, 2011A new and quite extraordinary, indeed unprecedented, scientific study of cyclothymia has shown that it can be cured using a powerful combination of two different forms of psychotherapy. WHAT IS CYCLOTHYMIA? Most people are aware of manic depression, often refered to as bi-polar disorder, in which the sufferer experiences substantial mood swings from a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 20th, 2011Psychodynamically, scapegoating is defined as a “process by which the mechanisms of projection or displacement are used to focus unwarranted levels of aggression, hostility, frustration, etc., on another individual or group.” Aggression, hostility and frustration are behaviours, as is the act itself of scapegoating. What underlies them is emotional energy and it is the … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 30th, 2011PLAYGROUND DYNAMICS If you look at the way in which cohorts of children distribute themselves in the playground, you soon discover some fairly consistent patterns. There will usually be two or three, predominantly single sex, groups of upto eight, then there will be one or two groups of four, roughly four groups of … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 15th, 2011Very reasonably, a couple of people have raised an eyebrow at the statistics I quoted in my blog items over the last couple of days about the prevalence of mental health issues. These statistics are incredibly difficult to establish and to verify, and there are so many different variations on a theme that it … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 14th, 2011Thank you all for the positive comments both public and private around my article, published yesterday, about Catherine Zeta-Jones and bipolar disorder. My own particular interest is in the contribution of mental health extremes to productivity (deliberately avoiding labelling it as creativity, which I think is a subset, and also avoiding the assumption that … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 13th, 2011Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of many creatives to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but what is it? Imagine that you have three states of being in your day-to-day life. In one, everything is perfectly normal – life goes on pretty much like life goes on for everyone else. In the second, you experience periods … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 8th, 2011From casual violence to genocide, acts of cruelty can be traced back to how the perpetrator identifies with other people, argues psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. Is he right? An interesting article about the work of one of the country’s leading psychologists specialising in autism spectrum and Asperger’s syndrome. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-a-lack-of-empathy-is-the-root-of-all-evil-2262371.html If you would like to … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 8th, 2011If you’ve not seen or heard his talk before, then I really recommend the talk at the RSA given by author and journalist, Evgeny Morozov, in which he presents an alternative view on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics. The talk was originally given … / continued 
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