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

   Notions, Potions and Nostrums

   Circles of Confusion - by Stephen Bray

   Rub it Better - by Joe Sinclair

   Spirit Release - by Alan Sanderson and Deena O'Brien

   The Sceptic's Response

 

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

  

Verse

  

Books  

I read part of it all the way through  -  Sam Goldwyn 

   Book Reviews

   Book and Tape Offers

 

Letters to the Editor

 

The Last Word