psychotherapy

Psychotherapy’s Missing Link – “Why Don’t the Majority of People Who Could Benefit from Seeing a Therapist Go?”

The video below is of an address by Dr. Scott Miller to the “Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017” conference. It’s a long video (1 hour), but very well worth watching for some very challenging facts, figures and ideas concerning not just…
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Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy and Social Change

Written by Prof. Mick Cooper, this book has just arrived (March 2019). Sage Publications say: “How can therapists integrate theories and practices from across the psychological therapies? This book presents a framework for understanding distress and change that can unite different orientations,…
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Time for a New Paradigm? Psychotherapy Outcomes Stagnant for 40 years

Dr. Scott Miller “You’ve heard it said before. Flying is the safest form of transportation. Facts back up the claim. In fact, it’s not even close. In terms of distance traveled, the fatality rate per billion kilometers is .003, improving…
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It’s Not Always Depression

This article by Hilary Jacobs Hendel in the New York Times concerns both the diagnosis of depression and something called Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). The article begins: “How can it be that a seemingly depressed person, one who shows clinical…
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Positive Psychotherapy: Clinician Manual

The publishers say: “For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. And indeed,…
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The Human Elements of Psychotherapy: A Nonmedical Model of Emotional Healing

The publishers say: “The dominant paradigm in psychotherapy is the medical model, which views therapy as a clinical treatment rather than a healing interpersonal connection. Words like patient, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and modalities reflect this medically oriented view of therapy….
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Leaving It at the Office, Second Edition: A Guide to Psychotherapist Self-Care

The publishers say: “Mental health professionals provide better care to their clients when they care for themselves. This highly practical guide – now revised and expanded with even more self-care strategies – has helped thousands of busy psychotherapists balance their…
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