Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy

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Sepanjang buku, pembaca bakal dikasih suguhan narasi gimana praktik psikoterapi dilakukan. Memang nggak bisa covering all the "magic" things yg dilakukan psikoterapis. Namun bagiku, hal ini bisa kasih gambaran gimana tindakan kita masa kini ada pengaruh dari cara kita dibesarkan. I studied Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic in the 90s and graduated with a 2:1. My art work has featured in Vogue, Interiors Magazine and various newspapers, magazine supplements, and of course featured on Grayson’s Art Club on Channel 4. I have exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, and at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham. With most of the pictures, illustrated by an unknown artist Junko Graat, there are footnotes that provide more theoretical reflections, and explain the importance of a scene. In most people’s lives, there are three main areas: what we do, where we live and who we live with. Pat has tried the first area, what we do – work, in other words – and did not come up with anything. She’s moved on to the people in his life to see if anything untoward is happening there. Adapting to other people is a skill, and I suspect one you have in so much abundance that you might have lost some of yourself. Some people need to learn how to adapt and turn up the adaptation dial, while others – you seem to be among them – need to turn it down. If you adapt so completely to the other person, there is nothing left of you for them to have a relationship with. It is even hard for you to have a relationship with yourself. I expect you are putting in more energy to work out the other’s feelings than giving yourself attention to figure out your own.

Perry, Philippa (2009). "Relational marketing?". The British Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. Palgrave Macmillan. 6 (2): 47–51. ISSN 1759-0000. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Preview. Many clients report that naming the issue that brings them to therapy out loud for the first time can be a powerful experience, even overwhelming. I’m wondering if you are numb where feelings are concerned. You don’t say how you feel about your break-up. Perhaps you learned to numb emotion because to have your feelings meant having pain. Trouble is, we cannot just numb hurt and pain without numbing joy as well. I think you need to work on turning up your feelings dial. You don’t have to go from zero to 10; try turning to a two or a three to start with. It will take practice. Your homework is to ask yourself several times a day – perhaps every time you go through a door – “What am I feeling?” Then from the answer work out what you want and then, ask for it, go for it. It’s time for you to experiment.

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She had a regular column about psychotherapy in Psychologies Magazine [9] for two years; in September 2013 she became Red Magazine's agony aunt. [10] She also works as a freelance journalist specialising in psychology and was an occasional presenter for The Culture Show on BBC Two. A graphic novel that explores the months-long encounter between London psychotherapist Pat and her client/patient/co-lead James, a successful barrister with an unhealthy compulsive addiction, Couch Fiction does a superb job of illustrating what exactly happens in a modern psychotherapy session. Perry has presented various documentaries including: Sex, Lies and Lovebites: The Agony Aunt Story ( BBC Four); [11] Being Bipolar ( Channel 4); [12] The Truth About Children Who Lie ( BBC Radio 4); [13] and The Great British Sex Survey ( Channel 4). [14] Though outwardly unusual, the two of them live an ordinary, rather cosy kind of a life. She describes it to me. Philippa spends her day with her patients and then flops down in front of Countdown; Grayson spends his day in his studio listening to Radio 4 and then comes hoping to chat, only to find she is all talked out. At weekends, they go to their cottage, where they grow vegetables. Their daughter, Flo, is 17 and is hoping to read chemistry at Durham University and they are preparing themselves for empty nest syndrome. Together, they are growing older. A few weeks ago, Grayson celebrated his 50th birthday with a big party, at which he treated guests to some advice he received from an elderly gentleman whom he met when he gave the annual William Morris lecture. After 50, he told the assembled company, "a man should never pass a lavatory, never trust a fart and never waste an erection".

I wonder how much research has been done on the impact of recycling bins and their contents on the doorsteps of therapists’ premises? I would be especially interested to know of their impact on the first-time client. agnesvirtually: “Playing the violin’s my cerebral and spiritual practice. I feel sight reading does me better than crosswords ...” JUNKO GRAAT (illustrator) trained and worked as a graphic designer in Japan and came to England to study European horticulture. As well as illustrating this tale of psychotherapy, Junko is a landscape designer/gardener and has also designed Japanese hieroglyphics for some of Grayson's work. Junko is married to the gardener and furniture maker, Chris Graat. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did). London: Penguin, 2019. [19] What audience will it reach? I think this funny and enjoyable book will become required reading for psychotherapy students and would benefit anyone with even a casual interest in psychotherapy. Those who are thinking of consulting a therapist might ‘dip their toe in’ here, as might any lover of graphic fiction who relishes evesdropping on the lives of others: as a fly on the wall of Pat’s consulting room.

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In this warm, practical and witty book, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling psychotherapist Philippa Perry shows you how to approach life's big problems. Perhaps conflict is difficult for you because you have difficulty in knowing what you feel. Conflicts are usually far more about how we each feel than they are about facts. There will be conflicts in any relationship as we all experience things differently. It’s better if we can think of differences, not so much as I’m right, they’re wrong, winning and losing, but as an opportunity to gain understanding of the other’s view point and to communicate how you feel about yours. Then, considering your and their feelings, work together for compromise. If conflict is completely avoided, not talked about, never aired, a relationship can shrink because, as subjects become taboo, it means there will be less and less to talk about and areas of loneliness creep in where each of you remain unseen. One of the ways to increase wisdom and connection is to speak in the moment and work out things in conversation, rather than thinking we have to have everything right before we speak. This means not filtering all your thoughts: instead, say, “I love you,” or try to articulate other scary, self-revelatory thoughts without knowing how they are going to land. You can work out how you feel, not always on your own in your head, but in relationship with another. Say things spontaneously for the first time before you’ve thought them through. Practise being yourself and being unsure how you’ll be received. Dare to share. Is this a fail-safe formula? No. It is a risk. But without allowing ourselves to be really seen, a potential partner won’t be able to really connect with us. So, in my view, it’s a risk worth taking. Speak in the moment rather than filtering all your thoughts

Singkat cerita, apa yang harus dilakukan lelaki ini nggak bisa sekadar "berhenti" tapi tau akar masalahnya. Kalau pakai bahasa gambalng, "Kamu ini diapain orangtuamu sih kok bisa jadi klepto? Hidupmu berkecukupan, sekolahmu oke, sekarang jadi pengacara." Tapi Pat nggak mungkin bilang gitu langsung ke kliennya, kan? 🫣 Psychotherapy gives me the creeps. But – wait a moment – why did I say CREEPS? Was it because I was going to write that it gives me the WILLIES but I didn't want to write the word WILLY because I don't want to draw attention to my WILLY which as you see I have now done? How rancidly ironic. I see I have subverted myself – again. The process of telling the story and the relationship of the teller to the story is of more interest to a therapist than the content of the story itself. The content is the icing but the process is the cake itself. This is why therapists will often ask a client how they feel about the story they’ve just told. It is another of the differences between a normal conversation and a therapy session. Life bible incoming: Philippa Perry’s sage (and witty) advice will have you re-evaluating all the relationships in your life' STYLIST wuthering_alice: “My knitting is very important to me – it kept me steady during a recent anxiety episode ... I also have a bit of a thing for growing pumpkins. I marvel that something so big comes from a tiny seed.”I really looked forward to reading this, and it was an interesting read, but I thought it was shoddy. The story seemed too simplistic and wasn't really engaging, probably partly due to the many footnotes; the illustrations were rather poor and unattractive ; the font for the footnotes was so small they were almost unreadable ; the explanations in the footnotes were mostly too short to really offer an understanding, unless you already are familiar with these often complex theoretical ideas.