psychotherapy – A New Vision for Mental Health

Pluralistic Practice: The Inventory of Preferences: An International Evaluation

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2023 0 Comments

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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Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP), counseling, counselling, John Norcross, Mick Cooper, Pluralistic Practice, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Beyond Symptom Reduction: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Gets Empirical Backing

Author: Editorial 20th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that dives deep into a person’s unconscious thoughts and feelings. It doesn’t just aim to ease symptoms but also foster…
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José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, Mad in America, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Research, Talking Therapies

Changing the topic does not change the facts

Author: Editorial 30th June 2023 0 Comments

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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a coherent system

CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, counseling, counselling, Jonathan Shedler, psychotherapy, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Talking Therapies, The Lancet Psychiatry

Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society

Author: Editorial 23rd June 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Mick Cooper. The publishers say: “We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian ‘populism’ are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there been such a need for…
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a wellbeing society

books, Mick Cooper, politics, psychology, psychotherapy, social change, wellbeing

The Tyranny of Time: How Long Does Effective Therapy Really Take?

Author: Editorial 16th June 2023 0 Comments

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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Clients & Patients, Consumer Reports, counseling, counselling, Enrico Gnaulati, Jonathan Shedler, long-termism, psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Networker, Research, short-termism, Talking Therapies

Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach

Author: Editorial 1st May 2023 0 Comments

This abstract is of a chapter in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis that has been co-authored by Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes: “This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the…
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biomedical model, contextual model, holism, Marino Pérez-Álvarez, Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes, phenomenology, psychiatry, psychosis, psychotherapy

Why Good People Do Bad Things, and the Search for the Holy Grail of Psychotherapy with Dr. Jonathan Shedler

Author: Editorial 2nd March 2023 0 Comments

This podcast is described as follows: “In life we often keep repeating the same patterns, even if they are not beneficial to us. And even if we become aware of this, we likely may still not understand ourselves. That’s because we don’t…
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Uncategorised

audio, Jonathan Shedler, psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Is Psychiatry Working?

Author: Editorial 24th February 2023 0 Comments

This series of 30 minute podcasts from BBC Radio 4 has six episodes: Crisis : Writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode discuss psychiatric crisis care with patients and clinicians. Detention : How do we treat people, often against their will, under…
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audio, BBC, BBC Radio 4, coercive psychiatry, diagnostic labelling, involuntary detention, psychiatry, psychotherapy

That Was Then, This Is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy For The Rest Of Us

Author: Editorial 10th February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Jonathan Shedler has been published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The abstract says: “Psychoanalysis has an image problem. The dominant narrative in the mental health professions and in society is that psychoanalysis is outmoded, discredited, and debunked. What most…
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Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Jonathan Shedler, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic education, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

The Effectiveness of an Intensive Inpatient Psychotherapy Program for Chronic Depression: A naturalistic comparison with wait list

Author: Editorial 12th December 2022 0 Comments

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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affect phobia therapy, BMC Psychiatry, chronic depression, counseling, counselling, depression, psychotherapy, Research, Talking Therapies, VITA