Between Therapist and Client: The Great Divide
For clients, perhaps the single, most valuable function of therapy is the unprecedented freedom of expression it allows them. Assuming that the therapist is competent, clients have full license to...
View ArticleWhy Freud Wrote Stories
Mind lends itself to stories. Stories certainly come closer to capturing the essence of human experience than logical categories.read more
View ArticleThe Deepest Bond: Our First Love
This is an introduction to Dr. Beatrice Beebe's work, which emphasizes the crucial importance of each mother's on-going attachment to her unique child.read more
View ArticleTalk Therapy: Your Own Reality Show On Demand
Whether you see your life as a tragedy, a comedy, a rock opera, a bromance, or a soap opera, talk therapy is a place where you can bring your story to life for a captive audience and not have to worry...
View ArticleYou Say Efficacious, I Say Effective: How Best to Feel Well
By the time this new treatment, this new hope, is approved for use by the general public, the patient expects that it will be overwhelmingly helpful to the overwhelming majority of patients. Time for...
View ArticleTreating Narcissists Like Alcoholics?
Is it possible then an old tried and true method of helping alcoholics and drug addicts actually be useful in the treatment of narcissists by helping them break through their denial?read more
View ArticleConfessions of a Recovered Insight Junky
Junkies are often self-medicating. So are insight junkies. Recovery often comes less from the insights than from looking squarely at our hunger for them. Meditate on the pain you're self-medicating,...
View ArticleFill Your Glass and Toast to Life
It can be easy to get caught and stay stuck in negative thinking. These negative thoughts and feelings can be part of a self-perpetuating cycle. You can break free by learning to pay attention to...
View ArticleLogic-Based Therapy to Go
Logic-Based Therapy (LBT) can help you to live more happily through the use of a little logic and a dose of applied philosophy. The theory grows out of one of the most influential psychological...
View ArticleHow We Story Our Life Experience Matters
We shape everything that happens to us into personal stories about the lives we are living. Only we can determine the meanings of these events to our whole life. Meanings can move us forward or keep us...
View ArticleMeaning and Life Purpose
Why do mental health service providers go out of their way to ignore our life purpose and meaning issues?read more
View ArticleUsing Hip Hop to Heal Trauma
Helping people connect, heal, and express themselves through dance and artread more
View ArticleRisky Sessions: Superheroes on the (Steel-Reinforced) Couch
Andrew Lesk of the University of Toronto has prepared a working bibliography of psychiatrists and psychologists appearing as characters in graphic novels and comic books, most of them as meaningful...
View ArticleFour Reasons He Doesn't Want Sex that Are Not About You
Beautiful, fit, desirable and desiring women make sex therapy appointments to complain about husbands that don't want sex. Why? Here are four reasons and resolutions.read more
View ArticleUnderstanding Hoarders
In recent years, many researchers have pointed out the similarity between hoarding behaviour in humans with the type of hoarding often seen in different animal species. The development of an animal...
View ArticleThe Sober Truth About AA and the Rehab Industry
The science behind 12-step programs and rehabs is severely flawed.read more
View ArticleYour Therapist Probably Has One of These Nine Blind Spots
Psychotherapists often apply theories that aren't specific to the client. They are guided by "principles of technique" learned in training and, unfortunately, gloss over the unique needs of clients....
View ArticleObsessing About Obsessing: When OCD Goes Meta
I was being terrorized not by the intrusive thoughts, but by the exasperating persistence of the OCD itself. Somehow, unbelievably, maddeningly—I had started obsessing about obsessing.read more
View ArticleBrain Injury: Methods and Treatments Part One
There are several methods available for treating each symptom of a brain injury. Finding out what works best for you takes some time and exploration, and an understanding of how and why each that...
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