About silence in families...

Peter Rober and Paul Rosenblatt wrote an article on war memories and family silences.  It is an article with a focus on Peter's memories on the silences in his family about his grandfather's captivity in a POW camp in Germany in WWII.

The article will be published in Family Process soon.


Here you can find the video abstract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJmFtYhuFY

New issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy on dialogical practices

Check it out...
it's free (for now)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anzf.2015.36.issue-1/issuetoc

Gert Biesta at the "Listen To Me!" conference in Kristiansand.

Gert Biesta is one of the invited speakers at  Listen to me! - The 3rd International Conference on Dialogical Practices, 23-25 September, Kristiansand, Norway.

Here he is in a clip where he talks about the purpose of education...

Here is the complete lecture from which the clip is taken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLcphZTGejc

Website 3rd International Conference on Dialogical Practices

Kristiansand, Norway, 23^rd to 25^th of September 2015.
«Listen to me!» 
Humanizing Human Practices

Here is the website with more information...

http://www.uia.no/studietilbud/listen-to-me!-humanizing-human-practices

Redefinition of Mental Illness by the British Psychological Society

Two months ago, the British Psychological Society released a remarkable document entitled “Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia.”  This document describes mental illness as caused, not only by brain deficits, but also by abuse, deprivation, inequality, and other social experiences. Mental illness thus requires social and psychotherapeutic interventions, not just pills.
Here's a New York Times article on the subject.

Sacred

She says that her mother died of cancer when she was seven.   

Her father committed suicide a few months later.   

“He couldn’t live without her.”

Tears fill her eyes.

She weeps in silence.

One tear rolls down her cheek.

Then another one.

I say nothing.

This silence is sacred.

Who am I to break it?

Stories about psychotherapy, loss and love
http://peterrober.blogspot.be 

Trying

People come to you because they are worried, scared, sad or confused.  

Some come because they want a better life.

Some have had enough and they just want to die. 

You do the best you can. 

Sometimes it makes a difference. 

Sometimes it doesn’t. 

That’s hard to bear.

So you try harder.

Stories about psychotherapy, loss and love

http://peterrober.blogspot.be