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View ArticleWarriors & Quiet Waters
Montana has some of the world's best fly fishing, and a remarkable community program in Bozeman is sharing it with disabled combat vets. Warriors & Quiet Waters brings warriors to Bozeman, outfits...
View ArticleHow Money Issues Predict Divorce (& How to Prevent Them)
Numerous studies have identified disagreements over finances as one of the top reasons couples seek marital counseling, as well as one of the top reasons for divorce...read more
View ArticleCreating A Common Healing Space
Often the mental health system has failed to pay attention to the experience of individuals and has become locked into a reductionist medical model. We need a model that promotes self determination,...
View ArticleSwaptimism: The Best Recipe for Turning Lemons into Lemonade
Swaptimism is telling optimistic stories about how you gradually swapped out your former beliefs and values for new ones and how it turned out to be well worth it. You tell these stories as if looking...
View ArticlePerfectly Beautiful
Body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, is a serious appearance-based affliction. BDD sufferers feel unbearably ugly, and little you can say can change their minds. However, when BDD affects a patient's...
View ArticleIt’s Modes, Not Personality Traits
The old personality model, that we have fixed traits that stay with us throughout our lives, doesn’t do justice to how flexible our behavior can be.read more
View Article5 Strategies to Stop Sabotaging Change in Your Life
Many people who who are unable to make changes in their life do not understand why they keep sabotaging their efforts. Usually this is due to a hidden resistance or unwholesome belief associated with...
View ArticleLove-Based Psychology
What is love-based psychology and how may it help you becoming more caring and compassionate to yourselves and others? David Bedrick asks us to look within to something we find difficult, disturbing,...
View ArticleThink Tangerine Trees (Not Pink) for Breast Cancer Centers
A new idea in patient-centered design and art therapy? Through Design Psychology techniques you can envision and create nurturing places for yourself or your community. In her workshop "Creating a...
View ArticleTo Be or To Be 'Well': How Therapy Works
Presuming to know what makes someone mentally and emotionally "well" can be damaging, particularly for those of us in the LGBT communities. We should be asking how therapy helps, not why it helps, or...
View ArticleAre People Getting More Primitive, or Is Psychoanalysis?
There is a trend in psychoanalysis that privileges primitive mental states. This trend reflects a turn in theory but doesn't necessarily reflect importantl new insights that increase our therapeutic...
View ArticleWhen Traumatized Clients Cope by Avoiding Attachment
Those with a history of trauma cope by avoiding relationships, emotions and love, including in the therapy room.read more
View ArticleFive Days of Tragedy and Trauma
In a five day period, our nation has been rocked by devastation, terrorism and trauma. If you are reading this column, you are likely in the field of mental health, a student taking psychology courses,...
View ArticleLetter to a Young Student 5
This post concerns the struggle to establish faith and confidence in one's work as a psychotherapist of the severely mentally ill.read more
View ArticleResist the Urge to “Take Care of Things” for Those Grieving
Sometimes, “well-meaning” individuals want to go into a grieving person’s home and clean out things that they think will bring too much pain or, from their perspective, do chores that “should just be...
View ArticleThe New Psychology
In May 1927, a wealthy New Yorker wrote a check for $5,000 and handed it to his psychoanalyst to personally give to Sigmund Freud in Vienna. The man felt the treatment he received had been so valuable...
View ArticleThe Misunderstood Wolf Meets the Misunderstood Addict
Most people have never had the opportunity to experience a close cousin to canine therapy: wolf therapy. At first, wolves may seem like an unusual choice of therapy animal, but history suggests...
View ArticleDesperateness
Desperateness comes during combat when it is clear that you will die. You aredisconnected from everyone except those around you. But then you survive and return home to a world that does not...
View Article“Do People REALLY Talk to You?!”
She asked, “Do people really talk to you?” I took a brief second to collect my thoughts, and responded with an enthusiastic “Yes, people do talk talk to me.” With the elevator still moving to her...
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