There is a magnificent scene in the film "Whiplash" (2014) that shows Sleight of Mouth at work in everyday "hard-nosed negotiation". What is interesting is that in some families digs are not the exception but the ordinary way of talking to one another.
What changes in people's lives after the course “Working with the Inner Child and the Inner Parent through the methods of transactional analysis”? What happens in their personal life and in their relationships with their children and their parents?
At the women’s request we are carrying on with MEN’S MANIPULATIONS, now that we have worked through the female examples. Manipulation No. 2 — playing on SOCIAL ROLES. A reminder: we put the list together jointly, on the basis of what we discuss at our meetings and in the comments, because the best way to stop a manipulation is to expose it, and to BUILD A RELATIONSHIP means replacing manipulations with agreements.
Van Gogh is famous for more than cutting off his own ear. It was Freud in Austria who raised psychiatry to the rank of a science, but what I am writing is an ode to art therapy, which was brought into the world by the famous Dutchman Van Gogh thanks to the Christian mercy of one of the most creative French psychiatric asylums in Provence.
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