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 There is something particular about Christmas. Even though nowadays we are so caught up in its flashy commercial excitement and ‘cheer’, I believe that its true soul and meaning still lies in the ‘love one another’ spirit that He advocated so fervently more than 2000 years ago, this…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist It has been known and documented for decades that for a person to enjoy full health he/she has to be in a state of physical, mental and social well-being (WHO 1948). As a result, any factor that affects one of these aspects of our health will naturally…
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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 Contrary to the general perception, human rights are not an outcome of modern society. On the contrary, their inception goes way back to half a century before Christ when Cyrus the Great, the first king of Persia conquered Babylon and opted to free all the slaves giving them…
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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 When physicist Isaac Newton was exploring the effects of forces on objects way back in 1687 he discovered that for every action applied to an object there was an equal and opposite reaction (third law of motion). Forces and motion are not phenomena which occur only to inert…
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by Shirley Galea ‘I do not want to add up to their troubles!’ this is what I often hear when I encourage a child to share her troubles with the parents. Some kids keep their lives secrfet out of a healthy self-interest to avoid fights or escape consequences. In some cases though, there is…
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