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From a fact to a structure

To promote change in counseling process by scaffolding a transformative structure, we need to work on three components and two different levels. They are the fact, the (narrative) content and the (narrative) structure. Here we will discuss how we can migrate from a fact to (narrative) content and from (narrative) content to (narrative) structure.

Delusion

Delusion is the mind’s tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience. Delusion would have me believe that I was my anxiety and that I was forever isolated as a result. Motivated by fear and…

How does Buddha heal? – The mustard seed

A young woman named Kisagotami lost her only child to illness around the time of his first birthday. Bereft, she was from house to house in her village, clasping the dead child to her breast and pleading for medicine to revive him. Her neighbors, thinking her mad, were frightened and did their best to avoid…

Structural VS Narrative

If someone who experiences dissatisfaction and comes for counseling, and we also believe that structural and narrative approaches are understood as the two ends of the same continuum, then which one you will adopt in the counseling process? The origination of dissatisfaction makes the difference. If the dissatisfaction is originated from unable to ‘plug-in’, I…

Modern symptom: Lose of relatedness

自我中心(self centred)不是失去連繫(lose of relatedness)的結果,反之亦然。而是來自自我保護及保存的一種嘗試。否則,一種冒然的開放,將會使個體超載(overloading)而面臨困擾,甚或解離。因此,人在自我保存與邁出之間,選擇了前者。

撕裂

面對需要(need),我被告訴要以自愛去照顧自己的,也要用慈悲去關顧別人的。就在自我與他者這咫尺之間,我們給無情地撕裂了。 誠然,只有在「以我為中心」的世界觀下,需要才找到其無可忽視的位置及重要性。