True Self / False Self
The Empty Chair
Many years ago, a photograph of an empty chair on a London Underground train caught my attention. Long after the photograph itself was lost, the image remained. Drawing on the work of Harry Guntrip, this reflection explores the hidden self, memory, and the question of how a life can appear full whilst something essential remains disconnected from it.
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He believed he was living with a narcissist. The controlling moments, the lack of empathy, the recurring arguments all seemed to point in one direction. But what happens when therapy begins to reveal that the qualities we struggle with most in others may also exist, quietly, within ourselves?
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