Mindfulness Can Quiet Down the A**Hole Voice in Our Heads
…to right now? Go ahead and give yourself this gift, learn how to quiet that critical mind. Adapted from Mindfulness & Psychotherapy…
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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on Therapeutic Alliance and Emotional Communication
…re: 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 communication. And that is the central heart of the treatment. So that would be in a relationship. At the same time, the movement in early development is showing that the growth facilitating environment — the attachment — is essentially the same kind of a situation whereby the pers…
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How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed
…their goals.” In a chapter she wrote for the book Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy Dr. Neff listed the following benefits of self-compassion in relation to motivation and goal accomplishment: Less engagement in rumination Greater emotional coping skills Greater ability to repair negative emotional states Increased feelings of autonomy and competence Enhanced motivation Greater personal initiative; the desire to reach one’s full potential Les…
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Changeology: Tailoring Therapy to the Stages of Change
…ill present Changeology, a proven science of self-change. The evolution of psychotherapy and the science of behavior change call for integrative, evidence-based treatments tailored to the individual client and couple. Backed by 30 years of research, this workshop provides effective methods for adapting the treatment method and the therapy relationship to the patient’s stage of change. You will learn to rapidly assess the stages of change (preconte…
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Video: Dr. John Norcross on cultural universalism and cultural relativism
…. So in this meta-analysis conducted by Guillermo Bernal and colleagues in Psychotherapy – Relationships that Work, they located 65 studies that did just that. There was a culturally adaptive therapy compared in the same study to a non-adaptive therapy. And sure enough, the effect size was of a quite impressive magnitude, the D of .46, which, not to get too geeky, is a medium-effect size. So you improve therapy by adapting it to the cultural needs…
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The Dharma of Politics
…r in my own social circle –as well as experiences shared by patients in my psychotherapy practice — that the presidential election posed (and continues to pose) daunting challenges to equanimity. Many have complained of changes in mood arising in phase with news cycles. Making matters worse, political differences have sometimes become contentious between friends and family members. There is even a name for it: Election Stress Disorder. Even though…
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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on the Physiological Impact of Dissociation
…at projective identification and dissociation are the major players in the psychotherapy. To end this part, what I’m suggesting is that in order to understand, not the mind of the suicidal patient, because, what you want is the mind/body of the suicidal patient. Because it’s one thing to have just cognitions. It’s another thing when the body is collapsing, so to speak, when the heart rate is dropping 30, 40 beats a minute, in the next beat, so to…
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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on the Roots of Suicide and Early Attachment
…he mother/infant relationship. And as you’re well aware now, all the major psychotherapy models now are coming back to the centrality of this early development. And that’s what I want to talk about. And also we’re seeing another shift now. We’re also seeing a shift, if you will, maybe three decades ago we were into behavior and behavioral models and then it shifted to cognitive models. I think right now we’re seeing a shift into affect as being ce…
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VIDEO: Dr. Kirk Schneider on Psychological and Cultural Polarization
…y and in our contemporary lives. And I think you also see the relevance to psychotherapy, to psychological breakdown — individual breakdown as well as cultural breakdown. When a culture or an individual gets to a place that they so identify with one single view, it’s a recipe for either a breakdown or a tyranny of some kind. And the tyranny can be cultural, it can manifest in wars, in ethnic hatreds, is us-them religion, many manifestations. But i…
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