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Exploring
Meaningful Relationships
Personal Relationships
NEXUS
- A Client's Dilemma
In
this article, the writer describes how he had to make a
decision - "The most important one I had ever
faced" - about a relationship. In fact, about
three relationships (if you include the relationship
with himself). He describes what happened before,
during and after two sessions of Symbolic Modelling
with Penny Tompkins and James Lawley.
The
story illustrates how clients' metaphors can crystallise
a whole complex of thoughts, feelings and behaviours so
that they are enabled to self-model how it all fits
together and come to know themselves at a deeper, richer
level.
Abusive Relationships
- by Recovery Man
Personality
traits of abusers and abused
How to recognise abusive relationships
Distinguishing abusive from healthy relationships
Abusive
relationships are characterized by
extreme jealousy, emotional withholding, lack of intimacy,
raging, sexual coercion, infidelity, verbal abuse, threats,
lies, broken promises, physical violence, power plays and
control games.
Abuse
does not have to be physical.
Abusive
relationships are progressive.
Abusers
are often survivors of abuse themselves.
Abuse is
a family dysfunction that repeats through generations.
The
article's provenance is the website of a confessed recovering
addict and survivor whose opinions are the result of his own
life experience and a great deal of reading in the Recovery and
Mental Health fields.
Linguistic Relationships
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Conversation
overheard between two participants at a philosophy
symposium:
"I
consider that the ontology referred to does not take
sufficient account of our conception of
knowledge."
"I
believe you are confusing ontology with
epistemology. The concern is not with knowing but
with relationships."
Whereupon
they part, scratching their heads.
Conversation
overheard between two people outside Whitechapel
Station:
"Greet god."
"What gives?"
"A few, and thou?"
"Small."
Whereupon
they part, smiling, having seemingly understood each
other perfectly.
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NOTE THAT LINGUISTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND ALL THE FOLLOWING
CATEGORIES WILL BE DEALT WITH IN OUR NEXT ISSUE.
PLEASE
LET US HAVE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR WHICH THE LATEST DATE FOR
SUBMISSION IS OCTOBER 15, 2004.
Cultural Relationships
Business Relationships
Relationships and the mystical arts
"The
art of astrology lies, at the most profound levels, in
the meaningful interpretation of powerful symbols.
Through making sense of a range of apparently chaotic
and unrelated events, astrology in the right hands shows
how these events relate directly to us and generate the
daily experiences of our lives."
Relationships in Science
"When
we say something is related to something else
we mean that the value of that phenomenon changes as the
other phenomenon changes: as one increases, so does the
other . . . this does not necessarily imply that
changes in one are caused by changes in the
other, although in science we are searching for such
relationships.
"A
relationship in science is a 'shorthand' way of
describing how variations in one part of a system affect
other parts. Some relationships are more complicated
than others, but we can often reduce complex
relationships to sets of simpler relationships."
(Albert
Goodman, Deakin University, Australia)
Educational Relationships
It
may not be adequately appreciated that programmes designed
to improve conditions and standards in schools - even when
there is substantial agreement about goals and means - may
be jeopardized by dysfunctional relationships between
teachers, parents and administrators.
Professional Relationships
and Boundaries
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