Talking Therapies

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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The IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure

This article by Michael Scott has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “In 2012, an  editorial in the prestigious journal Nature  claimed that the UK’s IAPT Service is ‘world-beating’—meaning that the service is the world’s best for treating mental health concerns. Now that 10…
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Viktor Frankl: The doctor who prescribed the meaning of life to his patients

“Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.” This article by Scotty Hendricks has been published in Freethink. It begins: “Many people struggle with the question of what the meaning of their life is. The dread that can…
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Beyond Symptom Reduction: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Gets Empirical Backing

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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Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online

Rosie Taylor reports for The Observer: “Twice as many people with mental health conditions are being given virtual therapy on the NHS compared with before the pandemic began. An Observer analysis of data from private providers, cross-checked against NHS figures, reveals around one…
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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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Delusions as Storytelling Gone Wrong in Bad Life Situations: Exploring a Discursive Contextual Analysis of Delusions with Clinical Implications

This theoretical article by Bernard Guerin has been published in The Psychological Record. The abstract says: “A contextual model of delusions drawing on discourse analysis is explored, which changes current attributional models to more concrete and observable forms of language-in-context. Most current…
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Why Good People Do Bad Things, and the Search for the Holy Grail of Psychotherapy with Dr. Jonathan Shedler

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

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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