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“how do I know what is right and wrong?”
Ethics, or moral philosophy, is the branch of philosophy that asks the question ;What is right and wrong; or; What is good and bad?; It...
It is beneficial to reflect constructively on the relationship between mind and body
The duality of mind and body has been a part of philosophy since the days of the early Greek philosophers. It is evident ,for example, in...
What Am I supposed to do?
I Over the course of one lifetime, many of us may find ourselves asking the question ‘what am I supposed to do?’ This question can arise...
'Secrets Worth Sharing': How to Talk about Childhood Sexual Abuse
School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health presents as part of the Psychotherapy and Research Tattered Couch Series an Online...
Suicide Or Survive (SOS) now recruiting for The Eden Programme 2022
Suicide Or Survive (SOS) is currently recruiting for The Eden Programmes and is contacting the professional community to ask for your...
"Talk to me like I'm a human"- the psychotherapy experiences of young people in foster care
The Care Experience Episode 28 Sep 1, 2021 This episode tries to gain a greater understanding of how children and young people, who...
Freud's Three Essays on sexuality study day
. Interested in Freud, well then you might like to consider booking a place at a study day on on his three essays on sexuality organised...
Mind Craft - Recognizing The Embodied Mind
Having an answer to the question, Where is my mind? opens up a whole series of possibilities for me in relation to being a student...
Courting, Coupling and Un-coupling: the trouble with Relationships Seminar 1
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/courting-coupling-and-un-couplingthe-trouble-with-relationships-seminar-1-tickets-160195251309 About this...
Voluntary Childlessness
Female voluntary childlessness has been defined as women of childbearing age who are fertile and either choose to be childless or have...
Why do so many professional footballers’ marriages end in divorce?
One third of professional footballers divorce within the first year of retiring from playing football. This escalates to 70% within three...
CLINICAL SUPERVISION: EXPLORING, ENHANCING & ENLIVENING PRACTICE
DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SUPERVISION CONFERENCE 2021 CLINICAL SUPERVISION: EXPLORING, ENHANCING & ENLIVENING PRACTICE The Psychotherapy...
Professional Diploma in Clinical Supervision / Level 9 Award
Applications are invited for the Professional Diploma in Clinical Supervision, in Dublin City University on offer from September 2021 to...
Why Something rather than nothing
This question 'Why something rather than nothing?' is not new. The narratives that we create regarding it are the oldest of all, the...
Death Anxiety in Psychotherapy
In 1957 a group of archaeologists excavated an ancient burial site in Sunghir, Russia (32,000 BC), subsequent study of these ancestral...
How Can I Know Anything? Do we know anything?
An age old question was once whether if a tree falls in a deserted forest, where no one is around to hear it, does it actually make a...
How do I know what is right and wrong?
How do I know what is right and wrong? Earnest Hemingway wrote: ‘So far about morals. I know only that what is moral, is what I feel good...
Why all this stuff and not some other stuff?
The choice of Hercules: Virtue versus Vice. Why all this stuff and not some other stuff? So, what makes us choose between one phenomenon...
Remembering Lyra
Anniversaries are opportunities to remember, to commemorate and to symbolise significant events. They can be a time to meet in an attempt...



















