From Psychotherapy to Psychopoetry: For Food, for Thought, for Curious Thinking

By Pierre Bonnet

The book is intended to challenge and is aimed at the curious reader who wants to think about whatand howhe or she thinks about things like choice, human nature, life, and so on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512725667

Pierre Bonnet

Pierre Bonnet is a Christian psychologist in private practice who has been privileged to share and learn from a wide variety of inhabitants of this planet over a lifetime. He has shared much about why and how people are troubled by things and tries to make sense of it.

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FROM

PSYCHOTHERAPY

TO SYCHOPOETRY

FOR FOOD, FOR THOUGHT, FOR CURIOUS THINKING

PIERRE BONNET

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Copyright © 2016 Pierre Bonnet.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-2567-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-2566-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015921451

WestBow Press rev. date: 01/20/2016

Contents

Thinking through CHAPTER ONE: Let’s Think about How we Think about What we Think about?

•   Thoughts about Thinking when taking Cognisance of Cognition

•   When a Thought is only a Thought

•   Common Sense or not so Uncommon Cognitive Sense

•   A Mindful Mentality

•   Mindlessness about Moodiness about Moodful Myths, or Meaningful Mindfulness about Mood?

•   Stretching the Mind from Perception to Perspective

•   Think it, Ink it, Read it, Speak it, Believe it

•   ‘Really’ Thinking about the Things

Getting to Know CHAPTER TWO: Which is about a mix of Knowing, Doing, Experiencing and Being

•   Knowing my Knowing

•   Quid Pro Quo about not knowing and wanting to know about what is irrelevant

•   Knowing why Not To make Worry the Main Thing?

•   Doing the DO’S

•   Problem-bias or Positivism-bias?

•   Authenticity

•   The You I Me More Give to get Paradox

•   Society’s Sadly Saturated ‘isms

•   Having to Have

•   A Sad State of Affairs

•   Knowing what You know, or Believing what They want you to know?

•   Truthfully Knowing or Unknowingly not Knowing the Truth?

It’s Time for CHAPTER THREE: which is about TIME and CHANGE – inextricably intertwined, irreversible and inevitably inescapable (forever changing as unchanging)

•   It’s about time for timeous thinking about time

•   Change alone is Unchanging, as Time Changes all, all the Time

•   Reminiscent of those were the days when reminiscing in futility

•   A Tell-tale Sign of Time - as often proverbially exclaimed as time flies

The Present presenting itself in CHAPTER FOUR: Not Seeing the present as the past!

•   Is the Past not Past Tense?

•   What is the Now PRESENTLY about?

•   Coming to terms with what we have to come to terms with

•   Regretting and Resenting, to Reviewing and Releasing …

Reading about Resilience in here-and-now reality in CHAPTER FIVE: Resilience, what on earth is that?

•   Grin ’n bear it

•   If it’s not fair it’s fairly true to life

•   Fear of Failure - fact, fiction, fixation or