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World of Psychology (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Image Microforum Italia This is Thanksgiving week ... the week some of us are very thankful that we don't live in the same city as our relatives. So I'm calling in the experts. My friend, Elisha Goldstein, who writes the "Mindfulness and Psychotherapy" blog on Psych Central, offers readers ... ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Berlin - A blanket ban on alcohol for your teens is counterproductive since it only increases the urge to drink, reports the German Professional Association for Children and Youth Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (BJKPP). Once children re...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
THE HAGUE.- During the past few years, Thom Vink has worked on a consistent body of work. His approach can best be described as a series of attempts to understand the city and its architecture as an organic process. Where urbanists, property developers and politicians who believe that social change can be effected through public policies would like us to believe that a city develops on the basis of...
Health Care (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is a an effective psychotherapy for a wide range of emotional problems. The theory underlying CBT is that our thoughts directly affect the way we feel - if we think in depressed ways then we will feel depressed. As such, a primary aim for a ...
planting words (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As a part of my Amida Buddhist psychotherapy training , I'm getting to read a lot of interesting books. 'Psychotherapy without the Self' by Mark Epstein is a psychodymanic (Freud and all that) as opposed to a person-centred take on using buddhist psychology in psychotherapy practice. I do like the epigram (that's the word for the quote at the beginning of books, isn't it'), by John Cage. "The...
Zaadz: Albert 's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Revealing times! We have heard about the tragic suicide of German sportsman Robert Enke who suffered from hidden depression. In a world where only performance counts. We have heard about the outing from Donal Og Cusack from ireland. The first elite sportsman who outed himself as gay. And British doctor Brooke Magnati who wrote for a lomg time the famous blog: http://www.bellledejour-uk.blogspot.com/...
Anxiety & OCD Exposed (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In recent weeks, several articles have appeared previewing the work to be published in November’s Psychological Science in the Public Interest. In this article, the authors allege that the majority of psychotherapists fail to use empirically validated treatments. Furthermore they suggest that millions of people are getting therapy based on the personal theories of their [...]
Breaking the Fourth Wall (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Dreamers of the Day : I think Mary Doria Russell is one of the best authors around. Usually, I like an author for a book or two, but then it becomes clear that all of their books have a general style that I'm done with. That's why I'm always stumped when people ask me my favorite authors. I rarely read everything an author writes. But Mary Doria Russell has written a group of books that seem to have...
Corpus Callosum (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The title of this article is a little bit misleading, although not deliberately so. The study examined the question of whether telephonic CBT - added to pharmacotherapy - was beneficial, in a primary care population. Note that the primary care population is NOT the population that psychiatrists typically see. Consequently, it is not possible to extrapolate these results to most typical psychiatrist's...
Integration Training Journal - Mark Walsh Brighton,... (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I found this post on mindfulness and PTSD. "One approach, which I have found particularly helpful, is a form of psychotherapy that combines mindfulness and experiential imagery, in what I call Mindfulness Meditation Therapy ( http://www.mindfulnessmeditationtherapy.com/ ). In this approach, the client is guided to form a unique relationship with the felt-sense of the emotional trauma. The felt-sense...
Mental Health Update (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Around 50% of chronically-depressed patients fail to respond to trials of antidepressants or psychotherapy and an additional 20% do not get completely better. Even after partial improvement a residue of depression can affect people's lives and increase their chances of a relapse. Doctors often add psychotherapy to a drug treatment if this fails to work but there is little research on this. A team of...
Recovery Is Sexy (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Psychotherapy is a unique relationship, a kind of connection that is unlike any other kind of relationship a person has in their life. In some ways, it can be more intimate than our most intimate relationships, but it also paradoxically values a vestige of professional distance between therapist and client. Therapists, alas, are just as human [...]
THE NICEGUIDELINES BLOG (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A recent review of the relevant scientific literature shows that the "revalidation therapies" for patients with ME/CFS, which are monopolized by the governmental institutions for example in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, are not only not efficient, but also aggravate the condition of many patients. Despite several major scientific breakthroughs, ME/CFS is still described in the popular...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Phelim McIntyre responds to the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) article "The Gay Cure" and a summarises the problems of the 'gay affirmative' argument. I am writing to challenge the article in the October Issue of Therapy Today about reparative therapy entitled “The Gay Cure.” This article is factually incorrect and raises a number of issues that [...]...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Sally Erickson, "after twenty-five years of being a psychotherapist and some thirty-five years since [she] first entered therapy as a client, [is] questioning some basic assumptions about the institution of psychotherapy" — The Culture of Pretend: How Psychotherapy Keeps Our Communities Sick . Some excerpts: America is part of Empire and our way of life “peaked” many decades...
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