Paul Gordon
I trained at the Philadephia Association,
set up by RD Laing and colleagues in the 1960s to challenge accepted ways of
understanding and responding to emotional distress.
Laing was very much apart
of the sceptical tradition in philosophy and I see myself in that tradition.
Scepticism requires that we constantly
question what we know, that we be thoughtful, reflective, paying attention to
things before us.
Its goal is what the greeks would call human flourishing.
My first training was at the Institute of
Psychotherapy and Social Studies.
I am also a member of the Society for
Existential Analysis and of the Free Psychotherapy Network.
I have been working as a psychotherapist
since 1990.
Since then, I have worked at Open Door, a psychotherapy service for
young adults and adolescents,
and also at the Arbours Crisis Centre, a
residential facility for severely distressed adults.
Therapy, to me, is a conversation, although it is a conversation about one person.
Often it is only through talking to another person that we can come to know what it is that we really think or feel;
where we might find what TS Eliot called ‘speech for that unspoken’.
Nothing, however troubling or bewildering it may seem, cannot be made sense of,
if given the right kind of time and attention.
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