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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleExamples of the 4 Things Competent Therapists Do
The problem with principles is that they can lead to rules and checklists instead of empathic understanding.
View ArticleYour 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.
View ArticleBad 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...
View ArticleBasics 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,...
View ArticleSeven 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.
View ArticleBe an ADHD World Changer
You can use feelings of shame or of being different to help you discover where your creative contributions lie.
View ArticleUnderstanding 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...
View ArticleTechniques 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.
View ArticleWho 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...
View ArticleWhen 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.
View Article5 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.
View ArticleVoices & Vitriol in the Hearing Voices Debate
Can Post-Modernists and Scientists Ever Get On?
View ArticleWhy 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.
View ArticleHiring the One-Armed Surgeon
Working with an impaired psychotherapist is like hiring a surgeon with one arm.
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