How many people in authority, in schools, prisons, nursing homes, hospitals and mental health organizations believe they know what’s best for the people they care for when in fact they do them great harm?
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What’s scary is when you don’t see what’s really evil: A re-write of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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Loyalty Binds and How Couples Can Deal with Them
Here is a wonderful YouTube video that we found by Marcia Sheinberg of the Ackerman Institute: Loyalty binds experienced by families.
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In Struggling with Shame, a Man has as Much Right as a Woman to a Good Cry Now and Then
This story comes from a recent excerpt from The Writer’s Almanac published by Garrison Keillor. It’s an inspiring story because it reveals how a gifted man used his feelings of shame to create something beautiful. We often use the story to encourage the men we work with to show their deeper feelings of shame and […]
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Collaborative Divorce that Works
When the romance is over but platonic caring and concern for each others happiness and well being are still very strong, Marriage Couples and Relationship Counseling collaborative divorce coaching can help by reducing conflict and managing emotional reactions that interfere with good decisions that enhance the well being of your family, especially where kids are […]
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A Re-Write of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” that addresses serious ethical issues with an ending in which the ward patients are encouraged to heal and grow.
This post identifies a number of serious ethical issues in the treatment of patients in the psychiatric ward in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and proposes a re-write of the story climax in which the ward patients, including McMurphy, are encouraged to engage in narrative group therapy.
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