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What Can Carl Rogers Teach Therapists About Trauma?

“Carl Rogers showed how people grow following adversity.” This article by Dr. Stephen Joseph has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “KEY POINTS Posttraumatic growth refers to positive psychological changes following trauma. Carl Rogers described the process of breakdown and…
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Pluralistic Practice: The Inventory of Preferences: An International Evaluation

This blog-post from Prof. Mick Cooper has been published on the website of Pluralistic Practice. It begins: “Over the past few years, a team of us have been working together to bring together all the datasets on the  Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) . The…
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Changing the topic does not change the facts

This letter to The Lancet Psychiatry (journal) comes from Dr. Jonanathan Shedler. It begins: “In a Comment published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Scott Lilienfeld and colleagues 1 wrote that I encouraged psychotherapists to ignore new practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because…
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The Tyranny of Time: How Long Does Effective Therapy Really Take?

This article by Jonathan Shedler & Enrico Gnaulati has been published in Psychotherapy Networker. It begins: “It’s been a long time since a systematic study asked clients whether they were actually getting what they needed from their psychotherapy. To be precise,…
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The Effectiveness of an Intensive Inpatient Psychotherapy Program for Chronic Depression: A naturalistic comparison with wait list

This paper has been published by BMC Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Background Patients with chronic depression (CD) typically have an early symptom onset, more psychiatric comorbidities, more treatment attempts, and more frequent and longer inpatient hospitalizations than patients with major depressive…
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Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

This book has been written by . The publishers say: “Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines she recounts five true…
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Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Volume 1: Evidence-Based Therapist Contributions … 3rd Edition

This book [August 2019] has been edited by John Norcross and Michael Lambert. The publishers say: “First published in 2002, the landmark Psychotherapy Relationships That Work broke new ground by focusing renewed and corrective attention on the substantial research behind the crucial (but…
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