Because sometimes a duck.. is just a duck.. And some therapists have truly uncomfortable couches. Though I suppose it’s not the furniture that’s supposed to be supportive… ;) CARTOO...
Absolutely no transference was acted out in the making of this cartoon. CARTOON ARCHIVE (hours of fun!)
(Well this is all change, eh? I’m trying something new with the digital colouring. Let me know what you think!) Part of therapist/client “fit” has to involve the therapist’s w...
Good day and happy sunny weekend! (and Memorial Day weekend for our American friends – I understand) Those of you who have been paying attention will have seen my new blog of psych resources an...
Inspired by a conversation* on Twitter with Linda (@talktherapybiz) about clients’ expectations of therapy and the realisation of how much like hard work it is! I can’t think of any other...
This one is almost a direct illustration for a stack of research papers I was reading on the role of the therapist in the room – and the essential impossibility of achieving anonymity/blank scr...
Therapy isn’t (often? ever?) about enormous ground-breaking strides that overcome all previous hurt and pain.. it’s more likely to be about making things a little bit better, step by step...
Well the British do like a queue.. so why not apply the principle to our public mental health services? Many thanks to a couple of my online MH consumer friends for the unintended and unrelated inspi...
Fulfillment: Satisfaction or happiness as a result of fully developing one’s abilities or character. The achievement of something desired, promised, or predicted The process or business ...
In Eigen’s The Psychotic Core he says of Freud that “he depicted dream life as a psychosis that occurs for every individual each night” on which basis, we’re all DOOOOMED! ...
I got very excited yesterday when I discovered an awesome website of all things Jungian (my favourite flavour of therapist.. slurrrp*) and in particular, this humongous list of archetypes (of which t...
This one is dedicated to Gustav Fechner, a psychologist back in the days when the term psychologist was used much more loosely than it is today. Really he was a panpsychist or believer in vitalistic ...
Mokita – a Papua New Guinean word – describing the concept of “truth we all know but agree not to talk about.” Also known as ‘the elephant in the room’. It could b...
RIP Maurice Sendak. Thank you for scaring the shit out of me :) MORE CARTOONS
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Ah the internet.. so enriched by lexicological experimentation. However, in the real world getting confused between your counsellor (ok American WordPress spellcheck.. “counselor”..tsk) a...
I was reading a marketing article for therapists about how to grow your practice by sending out newsletters and just aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhh hhhhhhhh. That is all ...
Inspired by the link-based Facepage stylings of good friend Mr Noel McDermott. I have no memory of the exact link, but it was something to do with fortune cookies and I couldn’t resist. And als...
Therapeutic types of the internet.. I give you The Therapist’s Toolkit! [Warning: contains sarcasm] A wonder of modern magic, digital inking and lashings of sarcasm! Rather amazingly this one t...
What do you mean you don’t have tiny anxiety-ridden electric sprites living in your brain? You don’t know what you’re missing out on! I think this one might be evidence that my othe...
Yeah.. I can only apologise. But things have been far too high-brow round here recently. Nearly the weekend, eh. MORE CARTOONS
George Wald (1906-1997) was a Nobel Prize winner. He produced a paper in 1964 which defined the “conditions for life”. I saw some similarities and drew a cartoon. You can blame the intern...
This is not a chair. This is your office. This is where you meet and think. This is not a chair. This is what you are trying not to look at. This is the elephant in the room. This is not a chair. Thi...
A bonus cartoon dedicated to the person who googled “narcissistic boundaries”. Thank you very much. :) MORE CARTOONS
Some may have noticed I have a thing about therapeutic felines. Well, there’s always room for more. Miaow etc. MORE CARTOONS ______________________________ ______________________________ I’...
(CLICKY) In celebration of WordPress now providing country-level stats (city-level next please so I can plan my world tour!!) I thought I’d do a quick visual of TT visitors for 2012 so far (whi...
Here’s a little one that the Facebook crew got a few weeks ago. What do you mean you’re not following Therapy Tales on Facebook yet? Tsk. I’ve also made a tshirt because I thought i...
Ooooh this is all a bit different! I warned you.. I’ve been reading comic books :) This one is inspired by some of the search terms I get since I added the research papers page, many of which a...
I don’t know about you, but I need a laugh today. :) Folie à deux as we all know of course is a shared psychosis where the symptoms of a delusional belief are shared by two people. You can also...
Be careful what you typo. :) Hello! I’m currently working on a whole new series of Therapy Tales which I am scheduling for later in the year however you are warned that things are going to get ...
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