Search Results for: Psychotherapy

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Can Secure Attachment Make Us Less Afraid During the Coronavirus Crisis?

…apt to this new way of relating and gradually develop earned security. (2) Psychotherapy can be a valuable tool for developing more secure attachment. A therapist can help us explore our early life and how it has affected us. In building a trusting therapeutic alliance or relationship with our therapist, we can gradually change the way we feel about ourselves as well as our defensive attachment strategies, and develop satisfying romantic relations…

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The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Depression

…adverse life event was estimated to be twice as high after treatment with psychotherapy when compared to antidepressant therapy. The point here is not to suggest that antidepressants are ineffective or that people who experienced early trauma are in any way less likely to recover from depression. Rather, it is to highlight the potential value of therapy. As the research team concluded “psychotherapy may be an essential element in the treatment of…

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PTSD: Why Does It Happen? How Survivors Can Heal

…Society by Bessel A. van der Kolk and Alexander C. McFarlane Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Pat Ogden and Kekuni Minton The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book) by Bab…

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Neurofeedback: What is Neurofeedback and How Can It Help You?

…zed by the results and it explained why some of my clients were failing in psychotherapy. When a person has electrical irregularities in the brain, it interferes with processing speed, attention, memory, and flexibility. Those factors are important to fully benefit from psychotherapy. In 2001 I bought my first of many neurofeedback machines. It is an exciting field and I gain great pleasure seeing clients improving their lives with this technology…

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Nurturing Self-Regulation, Mindful Self-Awareness and Resilience in Children, Adolescents and Families

…somatic interventions will be illuminated through the lens of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy promoting resiliency, developing resources, regulating arousal and creating new competencies in an action-oriented atmosphere of curiosity, play, and discovery. Learning Objectives: Summarize somatically oriented techniques that can help enhance communication, foster resilience, help resolve trauma-related symptoms and develop mindful self-awareness in order t…

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Overcoming the Destructive Inner Voice: Interview with Robert Firestone

…sonally but I felt would inspire others. I have always enjoyed books about psychotherapy so when I acquired enough stories I wanted to contribute a book on the subject. These stories made me wonder about what led you to become a psychotherapist? My father was a medical doctor and since I was a child I wanted to help people in some capacity. In college, I started out as a pre-med student but when I was exposed to psychology, I was totally fascinate…

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Qualities of an Ideal Therapist

…’ progress and change.* In The Fear of Intimacy, I outlined my approach to psychotherapy and described personal qualities in therapists that I consider essential to forming and sustaining an effective therapeutic relationship. The psychotherapeutic alliance is a unique human relationship, wherein a devoted and trained person attempts to render assistance to another person by both suspending and extending him or herself. Nowhere in life is a person…

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A New Approach to Violence Treatment: An Interview with Dr. James Gilligan

…rvival of our species. Dr. James Gilligan on Psychotherapy One reason that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, when they are properly conducted are such powerful forms of showing respect to another human being. When a therapist is giving his full attention to one person, without distraction, and saying, “What you’re telling me is so important, I will push everything else out of my attention and pay attention to you.” You are showing that person resp…

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Being a good therapist and being a good parent require the same skills

…nd the client are human beings deserving the same respect. The equality of psychotherapy is evident in its inherent non-intrusiveness; that is, in the therapist’s acknowledgment of a client’s basic worth and right to an individual existence. In the same sense, good parents are not playing out the role of parents. They are relating to their children with respect rather than offering role-determined parental responses. Although a child is obviously…

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For those Living with Mental Illness by Michael D. Rosberg Ph.D.

…y, “They (persons with a diagnosis of a mental illness) can’t benefit from psychotherapy………..no access to insight.” That was that, no to a referral for individual relationship oriented treatment. Not worth it I guess. The paradox is glaring: disconnected people are denied access to therapy to treat their own isolation because someone decided it “wasn’t worth it”. In my work with individuals with a severe mental illness and their families and frien…

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