Summary: Andy reacts to a filmed street incident sent to him by a colleague. He recalls a similar situation more than twenty years ago when he attended an injured man in the street, and notes that this time everyone was filming. He goes on to discuss respect, taking offence, self-restraint and self-discipline in children, and how messages about having no limits relate to mental health. He also says he does not delete disagreeing comments.
Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.