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Implementing a well-defined wagering strategy is crucial for extending your betting life. Implementing a betting strategy can enhance your likelihood of success when placing wagers; nevertheless, […]

My Colleague Leonie Hibbert found this interesting article on https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/psychological-injuries-physical-illness/ While I might personally have some reservations about the self- administration of his test and some […]

First Posted on April 5th, 2013 by alisonball Various theories grapple with and try to come to an understanding of the notion of Self. The grappling […]

First Posted on April 29th, 2012 by alisonball In the last year or so I find that I am gradually moving toward retirement. Maybe it is […]

First Posted on March 31st, 2012 by alisonball Many years ago I asked a friend of mine who was wanting to practice her new found skill […]

First Posted on February 29th, 2012 by alisonball Today I was talking with a couple of colleagues about a particular dynamic frequently observed in our clients […]

First Posted on October 9th, 2011 by alisonball Psychotherapists of my ilk are frequently talking about “boundaries”- In the first place what are they? Does someone […]

First Posted on August 18th, 2011 by alisonball I am not looking at the current market situation from an economical point of view as I am […]

First Posted on May 11, 2011 by alisonball Further to my last piece regarding the amalgamation of my own professional association- the Australian Association of Somatic […]

First Posted on July 27, 2010 by alisonball Suddenly as the neurological effects of trauma can be validated and it is becoming “mainstream” to think that […]

First Posted on July 31, 2010 by alisonball My initial psychotherapy training was in a neo- Reichian approach. This encouraged trainees in the work as well […]

First Posted on July 23, 2010 by alisonball Why does psychotherapy matter? It matters because people matter. We hear a lot of silly talk about psychotherapy being for […]

First Posted on August 5, 2010 by alisonball As a psychotherapist who is not a psychologist, I get rather fed up with the implications these days […]

Saturday 2nd May: Venue. Cairnmillar Institute, 993 Burke Rd, Camberwell, VIC 3122 Encounters Through Generations is a film in which eminent psychoanalysts in conversation with a younger generation of colleagues,  […]

This Exhibition and Panel discussion of “Afterburn” is a wonderful offering very relevant to our work as psychotherapists. From The Fire 27 May – 30 October […]

Alison will present at the A.S.P.A Professional Development Seminar on 30 May 2015 Whether you love or detest the concept, language or the experience of psychoanalysis, simply […]

Recently I attended a wonderful seminar on the subject of what it is that draws people toward terrorism and even taking off from our country to […]

While I was writing the previous paper I also gave some thought as to what else, other than psychoanalysis, had influenced me over the years of […]

First Posted on July 21, 2011 by alisonball As is evident from my name and if you talk to me, from my accent, I am one of these people […]

First Posted on June 22, 2011 by alisonball Many people have expressed their views regarding similarities and differences between individual counselling and individual psychotherapy. So I would like to […]

First Posted on August 14, 2010 by alisonball There are no simple solutions in psychotherapy. Strategies that can help the person in any moment of stress […]

First Posted on September 3, 2010 by alisonball Having just spent last Monday listening to Dr. Norman Doidge give a series of lectures on the plasticity […]

Posted on July 20, 2010 by alisonball I am realizing that there are various themes that I will want to follow, come back to and/or start […]

First Posted on October 12, 2010 by alisonball Lately- perhaps because I had been on holiday myself- I have been thinking quite a lot about absence […]

First Posted on November 21, 2010 by alisonball I have now been working as a psychotherapist for many years- since 1986. In all that time I […]

First Posted on August 18, 2010 by alisonball I want to bring to your attention some of the pertinent presenters in the neuropsychotherapy field that are […]