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Search term: Mark Emery
Volume: 23
Issue: 3
Year:
2012
Volume: 23
Issue: 10
Year:
2012
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- Nurturing reflective space
- Mark Emery
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We live in a culture of distraction. In today’s quick-fix culture, surrounded by myriad distractions that enable us to avoid confronting the lack of meaning in our lives, therapists can help their clients access and draw psychic nourishment from reflective space, argues Mark Emery. Tapping into a reflective space that is free from external distractions and proscriptive expectations allows the person to become their ‘own centre of initiative’, where they can become acquainted with their psyche and how it operates in relation to others, more in control, more able to accept our often contradictory complexity and better able to experience life as a revelatory process of exciting discovery
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