On Being A Civil Person

  by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist   Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne   One of the basic behaviours we are taught from a very young age is the way we behave towards others, namely social behaviour or what are commonly described as manners. The importance…

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Unconscious Phenomena in Therapy

by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist   Therapy is an process whereby the client and therapist work at building a therapeutic relationship with the threefold aim of creating a new experience in relationships different to the possible dysfunctional ones the client would have been used to, providing support to painful issues and situations at hand…

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The Legacy We Leave Behind

by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist   In the wake of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, the crass divide and polarity in the public’s opinion of her was very striking – at times one would have been safe to doubt if people were talking about the same person at all. Perhaps this comes to…

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On Being an Adolescent

by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist   Looking back, most of us would fervently insist that our adolescence was the best time of our lives, a time where our joints did not protest at every move, a time where we could smile and not have the skin of our face crack like dry mud, a…

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