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Neat and clean stop
Recently I came across a beautiful quote: „There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.“...

Pavel Nepustil
Jul 6, 20232 min read


Postcards
Sunday morning, I wake up still with a kind of whirlwind of voices inside me, after 4 intense and pleasurable days with the group of...

Alexandra Moreira
Jun 30, 20232 min read


Without boundaries
I wrote two books in Czech that start with the word without: „Without treatment it goes“ and „Without conditions“ (these are raw...

Pavel Nepustil
Jun 6, 20234 min read


Conference afterglow
When you take MDMA, you may experience a strange state of mind the next day that is being referred to as afterglow. Right now, I am...

Pavel Nepustil
May 22, 20233 min read


The fatalism of addiction and love
„Am I addicted?“ „Is he an addict?“ „Is this already an addiction?“ I guess I am not the only psychologist specalized on addictions who...

Pavel Nepustil
May 8, 20233 min read


The way of a man
It is the end of April already but today´s sunny day is the first one when I can go out in a T-shirt and shorts this spring. Everybody is...

Pavel Nepustil
May 1, 20232 min read


What to connect with?
We have many reasons from both experience and research to think that making connection is the most important task for therapists. But...

Pavel Nepustil
Apr 27, 20233 min read


Beyond familiar patterns
I think one of the role of us as family therapists is going beyond the family (or familiar) patterns. It may seem obvious but I mean it...

Pavel Nepustil
Apr 24, 20234 min read


Registration for the Olomouc conference on dialogical practices is now open!
SPRINGS OF DIALOGUE 6th International Conference on Dialogical Practices Olomouc, Palacký University, Czech Republic May 18 - 20, 2023 +...

Pavel Nepustil
Jan 24, 20231 min read


SAVE THE DATE for the next Dialogical Conference in 2023!
The International Conference on Dialogical Practices will take place on May 18-20, 2023, in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Pavel Nepustil
Aug 20, 20211 min read


IS DIALOGUE LIFE, LOVE, OR CURE? Uncritical review of Jaakko Seikkula’s new book
Reading the book Why Dialogue C ures? Explaining What Makes Dialogue Unprecedentedly Effective in Difficult Crises (Springer, 2025) was, for me, a deeply satisfying experience. For more than fifteen years I have had the opportunity to meet the author of this book in different contexts. He is one of the most important teachers I have had in my life, and I do not mean only in psychology or family therapy. His ideas, experience, and way of being have inspired much of what I do.

Pavel Nepustil
Mar 88 min read


Words will come... 2: "To let the river carry me"
The following work was written in Spanish and translated into English, both processes carried out over a long period during 2023 and 2024. A third installment will soon follow, bringing this three-part publication to a close. I thank Pavel Nepustil for the invitation and Pablo Gómez for the shared translation. El siguiente trabajo fue escrito en español y traducido al inglés, ambos en un proceso artesanal largo, durante 2023 y 2024. Prontamente habrá una tercera entrega y con
martinglozman
Feb 1210 min read


The Silence of Men
"A man never gets rid of what he is silent about." (Karel Čapek) Illustration: Markéta Profeldová My mom used to say about her dad (my...

Pavel Nepustil
May 27, 20259 min read


From Sarajevo to Sydney (via Bratislava)
Hotel Holiday, Sarajevo The Congress Hotel Holiday, an iconic building in Sarajevo, is used to host conferences. And lots of them. People...

Pavel Nepustil
May 11, 20254 min read


Touching the background
„We need to attend to events that are always occuring in the „background“ of the more „foreground“ activities we do deliberately; these...

Pavel Nepustil
Mar 4, 20257 min read


Am I addicted?
I have asked myself this question countless times in my life. With regard to many substances and activities. And one of the things that...

Pavel Nepustil
Feb 19, 20253 min read


Shining through the roots
(Art: Markéta Profeldová @marketa_profeld_tattoo) In many artistic representations, the unconscious world, our "subconscious", is...

Pavel Nepustil
Sep 19, 20246 min read


Addiction in dialogue
(Art: Markéta Profeldová @marketa_profeld_tattoo) Since I recently turned forty-five, I realized that I have been working in the helping...

Pavel Nepustil
Aug 15, 20246 min read


Time to digest
"Everyday reveals the cold power of core values." (Jolanta Brach-Czaina) “What a nice hair tie you have, Dori,” I told my daughter. "Who...

Pavel Nepustil
Jul 28, 20245 min read


Grow and fall
Illustration: Markéta Profeldová “Summer would not last forever; he knew it and Ronia knew it. But now they began to live as if it would,...

Pavel Nepustil
Jun 1, 20243 min read
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