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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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist When 7 year old Jan* was brought to therapy by his mother he made it clear he was coming under protest and that he was not going to utter a word. However as soon as he entered the clinic his face broke into a shy smile and he…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist You want answers? The Truth? You can’t handle the truth – Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men We are expected to say the truth, and nothing else, as soon as we can assimilate two thoughts into a concept. Failure to do so has been known to…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist To Doreen & Jerome – with much love I have been intrigued by death since I lost my maternal grandmother at the age of 5. As a child I could never understand how a person could suddenly become cold and lifeless and then simply disappear from our lives never…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist In the norm, a parent is that person who brings up and cares for his/her child. Winnicott (1964) in fact describes the ‘good enough’ mother (parent) as the caregiver who in the beginning is totally there for the child’s needs and then starts attuning more realistically as he/she…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist This story is “a story similar to many others” (Spagnuolo Lobb 2007:27). It talks about Jan (not his real name), a 25 year old engineer. When I met him for our first appointment, which he attended with his mother, he sat hunched with his arms wrapped around him.…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist Ema was 15 when she was brought to therapy by her mother due to low weight and severe anxiety especially around her academic performance, appearance and social acceptance. At the time she had just started sixth form after performing exceptionally well in her Ordinary levels and her dream…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist Nutrition, or the taking in and the use of food as a source of energy, is one of the seven basic functions of life. Without it our well-being and survival is severly compromised. In developed countries where starvation is a mere news item and food of all shapes and…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist 2pm, November 13th, 1895, Clapham Junction Station Author Oscar Wilde recounts his traumatic experience of ‘coming out’:”I had to stand on the centre platform of Clapham Junction in convict dress, and handcuffed, for the world to look at. I had been taken out of the hospital ward without a…
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by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist Chloe Abbott’s dream was to become a medical doctor since she was a child, and she did. Four years into her training, she buckled under the extreme pressure she was enduring trying to juggle long hours of training and studying and committed suicide. She was 29. Had Chloe’s…
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