Dr. John Norcross explains the 5 basic steps of change in his book Changeology JN: So it begins in the Psych Step. That is, people are getting motivated, energized, heading in a new direction. As the term designates, it is truly getting revved up. From Psych, we go to the second step of Prep, short… Read more »
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Dr. John Norcross describes what motivated him to write Changeology LF: In your new self- help book, Changeology, which I really liked, you describe five steps to realizing your goals and resolutions. What motivated you to make your research findings available to the general public in a reader friendly way? JN: Well, Lisa, as we… Read more »
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Dr. John Norcross talks about his view of the future of psychotherapy The following transcript contains part of an exclusive interview with Dr. Lisa Firestone and Dr. John C. Norcross. LF: So, what do you see as kind of the future of psychotherapy, particularly of integrative psychotherapy? JN: You know, every ten years,… Read more »
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You’ve been with me for all my years, I never knew who you really were. Haunting voices without a name, Are you me? Are you real? Am I insane? I live in fear, do I exist? Myself I just can’t find, Your loving hate towards me, An agonising double bind. You fill me with your… Read more »
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Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore talks about the etiology of somatoform dissociation, its role in suicide, and the potential for therapy to alter this trajectory. Dr. Allan Schore: Well, the classical is the disruption of consciousness and ongoing states of consciousness. And so therefore, when the infant, let’s… Read more »
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Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore describes the therapeutic alliance as a bond of emotional communication, right brain to right brain. Dr. Allan Schore: The therapeutic alliance literature, which has been on the efficacy of psychotherapy is now showing that essentially the therapeutic alliance is a bond of emotional… Read more »
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Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore talks about hypo-arousal, hyper-arousal, dissociation and the inability to take in comfort. Dr. Allan Schore: It’s pretty clear that, you know, that the externalizing pathologies go more towards the males, the internalizing psycho-pathologies go more toward the females. So that you have more… Read more »
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Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore describes the balance of rupture and repair as the foundation for resilience. Dr. Allan Schore: In the normal developmental work, we now know that the mother is attuned maybe 30% of the time with infants, you know, the first 2, 3 or 4… Read more »
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Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore discusses the non-verbal communications critical to affecting outcomes in therapy with suicidal patients. Dr. Allan Schore: Just for the record, we’re not talking here about anxiety and guilt. Anxiety and guilt are kind of left (brain). We’re talking about affects which are, have… Read more »
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Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore describes key factors in treating suicidal individuals, particularly the therapists’ capacity for affect tolerance. Dr. Allan Schore: The principle of affective communication goes on throughout the lifespan. So just as the centrality to be able to communicate one’s internal affective states to another… Read more »
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