General Table of Contents
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Main Theme
The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason
for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility
that yours is a fake. - H. L. Mencken
Circles of Confusion - by Stephen Bray
Rub it Better - by Joe Sinclair
Spirit Release - by Alan Sanderson and Deena O'Brien
Brief Therapy
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also
a matter of opportunity - Hippocrates
Brief Therapy - by Joe Sinclair
Strategic Therapy Mr Bond? - by Stephen Bray
Solution Focus - by Rob Cumming
Beliefs
"My aunt died of influenza, so they said. But it's my belief
they done the old woman in." - Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
Is you is - or is you ain't - by Stephen Bray
Faulty Assumptions - by Paul Schenk
Education
“If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future,
don't teach him to subtract, teach him to deduct.” Fran Lebowitz
Try Something New (Part II) - by Donna Brandes
Curriculum Development - by Mark Edwards
Health
“Doctors put drugs of which they know little, into bodies of which they
know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” Voltaire
Self-Help Groups and Strategies
Business
“My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything
you can't make your children carry.” Bill Bryson
Nurturing our Business Potential - by Terry Goodwin
Language
"For more than 40 years I have been speaking prose
without knowing it" - Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Language - the Two-Edged Sword
Books
I read part of it all the way through - Sam Goldwyn