Eric Ruffing Therapy, MA, AMFT

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Modern power recruits us into policing ourselves. Influenced by the media, by what is readily available at the supermarket, by the standard curriculum for high schools, and by the clothes we see on pop stars, just to name a few, we tend to accept the dominant norms and discourses. We tend to try to live up to dominant discourses, to compare ourselves to what they deem good, or normal, or successful, and to judge ourselves through these comparisons. Apart from other things, I found that this opened up new avenues of inquiry into the context of many of the problems and predicaments for which people routinely seek therapy.

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We live multi-storied lives - Narrative Therapy Some of those stories are unauthorized biographies in which the author(s) refuse to allow us to edit, fact check or a re-write.... #narrativetherapy #narrative #collaborativetherapy #unauthorized #therapist #therapy #mentalhealthquotes #oc See more