Theory
Praxis
Theory
Emergence
One of the main focuses of Praxis counselling is ‘emergence’. Emergence is when we stop rationalising certain angst-inducing behaviours, instead honing in on the contradictions that required rationalising it to mitigate it. An important part is also exploring what it means to stop rationalising, and allowing the contradictions to clash.
Intrenchment
Knowing where anxiety comes from does not necessary mean addressing its roots. Beyond exploring the roots of anxiety, it is important to engages ‘intrenchment’; which is becoming aware of angst-inducing phenomena, and postponing or ignoring emergence. We then become intrenched in an anxious way of being.
Praxis
Social, political and historical events affect us intimately. Of course, neither society, nor politics or history exists in our minds, they are external, yet they affect everyone differently and in unknown ways. In praxis counselling sessions, both client and practitioner, try to make sense of how certain external realities affect our internal ones. This is we encourage joining the reading circles.
More
To learn more about Praxis counselling, read Part II of Politically Unconscious: the Psychic Aftermath of the Sudanese Revolution.
Mohamed Khougali
I am not a registered psychotherapist in Germany.
I’ve worked as a therapist in England and Sudan. Though I have worked in psychiatric hospitals, universities and clinics, I believe the most meaningful breakthroughs were made by combining psychological reflections with an understanding of the social reality we inhabit.
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