change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!i have recently heard from a number of people who have difficulties with what could be called “hoarding” – ammassing and keeping more possessions or even animals than one can house in a living space. this oversupply then […]

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from WebMD:
When one person gets a headache, the family may feel the pain, a new survey shows.
The results show that headaches often run in families, with effects rippling through the family like waves on a stone-struck pond.
The survey included the statement, “I am unable to tend to

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i have
in my bathroom
a hidden place where
i scatter words.
it’s true!
behind my old pink mary kay bag,
between it and

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yesterday, at a lovely meeting of the vancouver chapter of valley women’s network, i met laara atley, originally from finland, the land of saunas. we were talking about body image, plastic surgery and the like when laara made the very valid comment that people who were brought up in a culture where nakedness is […]

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Many Authors Of Mental Health Diagnosis Guidelines Have Financial Ties To Drug Makers, Study Says
The majority of psychiatrists who worked on the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s widely influential diagnostic manual had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry before, during or after the manual was published.
more …
are we surprised?
isabella mori
counselling in vancouver

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john suler of rider university on the psychology of cyberspace, with titallating topics like
cyberspace as psychological space
cyberspace as dream world
bringing online and offline living together
and of course it includes a (large!) section on online therapy. in the myths of online therapy, there are two interesting comments:
Many sexual abuse survivors report

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medicalnews tells us today
Dutch researcher Maarten de Rijke and his co-workers Gilad Mishne and Krisztian Balog have developed a new programme that can trace and explain significant changes in mood patterns on the Internet. MoodViews is a collection of instruments that maps the mood of bloggers as they write their message.
this is […]

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and for today: some weeeeiiiiird ideas about the human psyche:
here we have a list of self defeating behaviours, which, nancy spoolman says, require ‘negative techniques‘. okay, that makes sense so far, although there is something a little strange about these long lists of negativities found on this web site. but how […]

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inspired by my last blog entry, the following is a slightly altered excerpt from the satir model, giving a model of how to help people deal with feelings.
anger transformed
behaviour: what action did you take when you were angry?
coping: how were you using anger to cope better?
feelings: were there other feelings associated with feeling angry?
feeling about […]

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last week i had the great pleasure of taking a goal planning workshop with mary-lou hill. this workshop was originally designed for women who are part of mary kay cosmetics. however, since mary-lou is the mother of my friend ronnie (of part-ninja), a few of ronnie’s friends got to have a workshop designed […]

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i just stumbled across a sober thought, a blog by dayvud, a recovering alcoholic. it looks like we have a number of interests in common, including buddhist nun and writer pema chodron and the book the spirituality of imperfection (the one by kurtz and ketcham, not the one by richard rohr, another

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back in january, i posted an entry about the controversy around the size of the “obesity epidemic”. i just received a comment about this, suggesting that the article i had pointed out in that entry was naïve

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it’s evening, and i’m really tired. i should go to bed. but wait, let me check my email. and the other email. and wasn’t i going to look up something on depth-oriented brief therapy? oh! ding! here’s another message! and i haven’t really played spider solitaire yet […]

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recently, i’ve had a number of interesting and sometimes heated discussions about plastic surgery. according to one view, plastic surgery is an artificial way to prop up a twisted body image - one that is only available to those who can afford it. according to another view, undergoing plastic surgery is not […]

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these days i am often called upon to talk about psychotherapy. i am very much of two minds about this. on the one hand it’s something that i feel very passionate about – this is what i do, after all! on the other hand, i find it difficult – therapy is such […]

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