Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist Before you accuse me take a look at yourself – Eric Clapton Addiction to social media is one of the scourges of the 21st century. Many of us tend to run away with the idea that it is an affliction of our present day young generation, what we dub…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist Many clients who come to therapy struggle to understand why the therapist makes it a point to stop the session after an hour even if they would be in the midst of an existential crises. Some believe it centres around financial gain while others claim it is related…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist When John Bowlby put forward his Attachment Theory in the late fifties he brought to light the dynamics of a relationship that dates back to the inception of humanity that is the relationship between a mother and her child. Bowlby in fact believed that the primate infant had…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist In general, we tend to associate loss and grief with the death of a loved one. However it is not the case. A loss is experienced with any life event that we perceive as negative, and which results in long-term changes in our social situations, relationships, or way of…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist I believe that one of the most challenging situations for any human being is to be in the presence of another’s deep suffering. It brings up a hotch-potch of emotions and drives ranging from the need to make it better for the other to releif that the suffering…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist In geometry, the triangle is a plane figure with three straight sides and three angles. Outside our mathematics textbook the triangle symbolises ancient wisdom, mysticness, the Holy Trinity, the number 3 and the sacred feminine and masculine energies. In psychology , the triangle is found as a concept…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist “How would you feel if you lost all your family in one day?” I confess that I was so deeply struck and moved by this question, posed to me during therapy by a 20 year old client, that I was at a loss for words as my…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist We tend to assume that people, who are for the great part sane, are fully aware of what they are doing and are left with full freedom to decide, at times even the outcome of important events or the fate of vulnerable people. Such are the basis of…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist It is a known reality in our everyday experience that we find it easier to connect with some people and not so easy or not easy at all with others. It is also true that the ease of our interactions may also be affected by particular experiences in…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist Honesty is a value we treasure. It gives us the security of knowing that we are receiving what we are perceiving and thus supports us to relate to the other fully, without reservations. Yet we all have to concede that there are many facets of us we do…
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