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Showing posts with label psychotherapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychotherapy. Show all posts
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Psychotherapy happens in a political environment

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  Summary David Markham's email argues that psychotherapy inherently involves power dynamics, particularly concerning clients' self-...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Psychotherapy and violence as a tool of social change

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  David Markham , a mental health professional, reflects on the role of  violence as a tool for social change  in the United States. He obse...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Good enough

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Monday, October 31, 2022

The Power of Stories

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  Stories provide a moral model of the world. They teach how things work or could work. The question is what does the audience make of the s...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

What is the goal of psychotherapy?

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Along with this idea is the one that the presenting complaint is not the real complaint. The presenting complaint is just the ticket of admi...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Your provider will be with you shortly

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  Clearly there must have been “something in the air” in the mid and late 1980s, some shift in the zeitgeist of psychotherapy, that made psy...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

How can you do this work?

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Purely in human terms, psychotherapy is an intensely interesting and often personally impactful experience, dealing as it does with personal...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Majority of psychiatrists no longer provide psychotherapy

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Researchers analyzing 21 years of data found that the percentage of psychiatrist visits involving psychotherapy has declined by half -- drop...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Pscyhotherapeutic fads

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Question: When it comes to psychotherapy why do some therapists seem drawn to techniques which are fads that come and go? Answer: H...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Cognitive behavioral therapy improves functioning for people with chronic pain, study shows

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From Science Daily on July 11, 2017 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the most frequently used psychological intervention for people w...
Friday, June 30, 2017

What Kind Of Therapy Is Best For Me?

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What kind of therapy is best for me? By David G. Markham, L.C.S.W. Question: I have been depressed and unhappy for many years, ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Psychotherapy normalizes the brain in social phobia

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A study conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich, Zurich University Hospital and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zuri...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Benzodiazepines Continue to be Prescribed Without Psychotherapy to Older Adults

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From Mad In America, 02/24/17 "A new study, published in the  Journal of the American Geriatric Society , finds that older adults c...