change therapy

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drug therapy and what i call “armchair therapy” that seems to never […]

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the other day, marc challenged me with this idea: can depression, or any other challenge such as alcoholism or bipolar disorder, be an entity of its own, with its own agenda and will to survive?
i’ve been familiar with this concept for quite a while but it’s never really grabbed me. that’s why i’m grateful for […]

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yesterday, we had a guest post by david about using the law of attraction to lose weight. since david’s and my views are a bit different, i promised you a dialogue about it. so here we go. i will start with some of the ideas with which i agree:
i completely agree that […]

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suspicion is a heavy armour and with its weight it impedes more than it protects
robert burns
the range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. and because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing […]

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over at my “buddy blog” finding your marbles, there is a really good discussion about what happens in therapy. this post here talks about ending therapy. scott asked me to comment on a conundrum a commenter is experiencing.
here’s the problem:
i was sure i could go it alone but couldn’t face telling my therapist […]

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hello and welcome to the last carnival of eating disorders for 2007. this time around, it’s a “pure” carnival – i’ve only included those submissions that talk directly and unmistakenly about eating disorders. i’ll invite the other submissions to participate in the progressive dinner carnival next month. (yes, i know, that’s a […]

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dear reader friends, here is the new buddhist carnival. i feel very fortunate to do this service to the – buddhosphere?
and dear blogger friends, thank you so much for all the excellent submissions to the buddhist carnival. in keeping with the suggestions in our first post featured here, i have decided to break […]

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(this is part 2 of my reflections on the connection between therapy and research, started yesterday).
in traditional research, an answer to a research question can be formulated quite easily because a) the things, people, and processes involved with the research are controlled as much as possible, and b) the answer to the […]

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this is part 1 of my musings on the connection between therapy and research.
at its most basic, research is the act of

systematically investigating a thing or process,
systematically and carefully recording that process,
and drawing conclusions.

the system or method, the investigation itself, the recording and the drawing of conclusions are always tied into some […]

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i’d like to thank sarah for a very insightful analysis of the counsellor’s creed, which i had posted last year.
the wording of that creed is not necessarily the one i would have used – but then, i try to read for what seems to be the spirit of the words.
what sarah says about the parent/spouse/lover/master/servant […]

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the other day, nancy asked an interesting question in her saturday case study:
jeff and his two siblings, a brother and sister, each inherited a sizeable legacy when their parents died. jeff was conservative, and grew his legacy into an even more significant nest egg and is now independently wealthy.
he came to me because there was […]

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the other day i was listening to a little audio clip of an interview with albert ellis, the no-holds-barred founder of rational-emotive behavioural therapy (REBT, also known as RET and RBT). ellis was one of the grandfathers of cognitive therapy; he wasn’t too enamoured with the theories he said freud “made up” and jung’s […]

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108 years ago today, sigmund freud’s most significant work, the interpretation of dreams, was first published (it was later forward-dated to 1900). dreams, freud thought, were “the royal road to the unconscious”. chapter one of this book starts with these words:
in the following pages, i shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique […]

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i just stumbled across my term paper of my very first counselling class, 17 years ago. here is what i wrote about my view of human nature. i’m sure i could nip and tuck here and there, and would probably use a slightly different writing style - but generally, most of what i […]

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have you experienced recovery and healing in your life? goodtherapy, a great new resource for people who believe in affirmative therapy, therapy that is non-pathologizing, empowering, collaborative is starting a healing story collection. if you have something to share, go here.
the first contribution you’ll find starts like this:
once upon a time there was […]

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