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Art is about Resilience, It Always Has Been

Art expression and the creative process are really manifestations of the drive toward health and well-being, not merely signposts of repression, projection, displacement, and sublimation. As Louise...

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What If the Diagnosis of Autism Is Wrong?

How does this happen? There are many neuropsychologists who are excellent and take time to evaluate a child. Sometimes, children do not perform well because they are afraid of the unfamiliar adult or...

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What Happens When a Narcissist's Love Turns Into Rage

No one like being rejected or left, but for narcissistic individuals, a rejection can become the stimulus for a dangerous over-reaction. If you’ve ever been the target of one of these attacks, you know...

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Examples of the 4 Things Competent Therapists Do

The problem with principles is that they can lead to rules and checklists instead of empathic understanding.

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Your Feelings Are Keeping You Stuck

Using a bit of profanity for the sake of humor and enlightenment, a new book explores feelings and their uselessness in solving your most troublesome life issues.

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Bad Science Creates False and Dangerous Beliefs

Science is what is used to justify psychiatry today. If it is science at all, it is bad science. Both the pharmaceutical industry and many of today’s psychological theories including those that support...

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Basics of Getting Beyond Trauma

Three debilitating things that can happen in a traumatic event. With any complex issue, there are a host of solutions that equal in complexity. This article is going to focus on one, and often missed,...

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Seven Signs You Need to Find a New Therapist

As with any relationship, a connection between the therapist and client needs to develop. This is important.

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Be an ADHD World Changer

You can use feelings of shame or of being different to help you discover where your creative contributions lie.

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Understanding the Internal World of Psychosis

For the psychotic individual to be understood, empathy regarding his emotional experience might make a significant difference in his psychopathology and his relationship with the world. It is possible...

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Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention

Everyone experiences loss, because the world is a place of impermanence. There’s no question that loss is painful. But it is also potentially productive.

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Who Am I? A Fragmented Professional Identity

In prisons, where anything can happen, therapists' identities become fluid, constantly shifting until it’s sometimes difficult to remember who we even are. This post examines how such personal...

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When Food Is Medicine

Doctors designed the dietary intervention of this study of older adults because they thought it wouldn't impact mental health compared to psychotherapy. They were in for a big mood-brightening surprise.

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5 Reasons This Isn't Your Grandfather's Psychoanalysis

The image that many people have of psychoanalysis is from the 1950's or even earlier. Times change. And so has psychoanalysis.

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Voices & Vitriol in the Hearing Voices Debate

Can Post-Modernists and Scientists Ever Get On?

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As the Seasons Change

We need to trust our process and reap what we sow.

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Why Clients Smile When Talking About Trauma - Part 1

Do you have clients who smile or laugh as they recount traumatic experiences? There are possible reasons for this common phenomenon that you can explore in therapy.

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March of the Cybertherapists

What do philosophers say about online therapy?

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Hiring the One-Armed Surgeon

Working with an impaired psychotherapist is like hiring a surgeon with one arm.

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Breaking down the walls of the therapy room

Why community sometimes trumps therapy

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