What a corker of a term – and a concept. Coined by someone with a corker of a name: Jerold Bozarth, a big fish in the person-centred therapy world. I’m grateful to Bozarth, who posited that an empathic response could take a plethora of forms. He discerned exactly how Continue reading “What the **** is ‘idiosyncratic empathy’?”

Madness: a sane response to an insane world? The words give me a shiver; I should announce my bias now. In favour. As a psychotherapist I’m stretched and challenged further by Mullan’s work in terms of how to be with people that are pretty mentally unwell. Continue reading “Film review: Mad to be Normal (2017). Directed by Robert Mullan”