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The Incest Taboo - in therapy and in life

9142447461?profile=originalIn my story of how after nine months of some pretty intense psychotherapy my patient and I decided to end our therapeutic relationship for a more emotionally and spiritually honest coupling that leveled the playing field, even in its telling, I break a taboo. The publication of my account of what it has been like for my husband and me to live with this history for twenty-four years has elicited the predicted ire and scorn from parts of the psychological community.

The evolution of a therapy relat

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Review: Platko's In the Tracks of the Unseen

Some topics are so controversial we cannot discuss them. Jane Davenport Platko’s In the Tracks of the Unseen: Memoirs of a Jungian Analyst brings one of those topics into full view: when the doctor and patient fall in love.

While we psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have thorough discussions as to why these kinds of relationships are problematic, we seldom have open discussions about what happens when they seem to work. Those who have entered such relationships rightfully fear judgement.

I will

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Organization
The Promiscuity Papersir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715381The Promiscuity Papersir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715381 by Matjaž Regovec

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The Promiscuity Papersir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715381
by Matjaž Regovec
ISBN 9781926715384, 90pp, Index, Bibliography, 2011

In The Promiscuity Papersir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715381, archetypal roots of promiscuity are explored. In classical Greek and Roman mythology some promiscuous father figures may be found viz. Chronos (Saturn), and Zeus (Jupiter). Another form of Saturnian promiscuous dynamic is explored in the mythological figures of Oedipus and Antigone. This is followed by pres
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