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Suicide on the Rise – What We Do by Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

…ople who had made previous suicide attempts endorsed negative thoughts or “critical inner voices” that told them they were a burden to their family and friends. “You’d be doing your family a favor if you killed yourself.” (This has been labeled “perceived burdensomeness” by researcher Thomas Joiner.) Suicidal people tend to endorse thoughts on the questionnaire about being alienated from others, “You don’t fit in. You don’t belong. You just don’t…

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Upcoming Webinars

…of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006), Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002), and Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003).   Learn more or register here Learn more or register here   Learn more or register here   Learn more or register here Learn more or register here   Webinars with Sheldon Solomon, Ph.D. Dr. Sheldon Solomon is a psychologist and the Ross Pr…

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PTSD, Violence treatment, psychalive

Dr. Don Meichenbaum on the Application of Stress Inoculation Treatment for Individuals Suffering from PTSD

…and that focus in on behavioral elements. The third phase, which is really critical, is application training. You want to make the training as similar to the real life situation as possible. So one of the things that becomes real interesting is that we can have rehearsal within the session, we can use imagery rehearsal, we can have graded in-vivo exposure, we can get you to perform personal experiments. In fact, if you stay with the concept of ino…

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Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

…thor of the books: Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Visit her site at www.drlisafirestone.com. Articles on the Self As Iraq Ends, A New Battle with PTSD Begins With 40,000 men and women returning home from Iraq in the next few months, we must greet them with the tools to combat the emotional wounds of battle. Developing resilience can truly break the internal cycle that leaves so many individuals chroni…

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Dr. Lisa Firestone Phd, Lisa Firestone, Psychalive, The Glendon Association

Dr. Lisa Firestone Parenting Articles

…thor of the books: Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Visit Dr. Firestone’s PsychAlive profile page for her latest articles. Visit her website at www.drlisafirestone.com. How Childhood Defenses Hurt Us as Adults When we internalize destructive attitudes during hurtful or traumatic experiences in our past, we strengthen our “anti-self.” As we grow up, our anti-self resides within us and encourages us to ta…

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How to Begin Again: From Wounds to Wisdom

…d patterns of thinking that had originated very early on in an excessively critical family system. This was not news; I have spent many years working directly with emotional patterns that were limiting. The news comes when present day experiences allow remnants of old negative beliefs to be revealed. Then, with this awareness, we can choose a response versus habitual reaction. It is up to us to decide how we will create the context that transforms…

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PsychAlive Event Calendar

….D. 11am – 12pm PST Learn more or register here Oct. 17-19 Challenging the Critical Inner Voice: Four Steps to Differentiation of Self NASPR 2013 Conference Memphis, Tennessee Learn more here Oct. 22 Helping Clients Overcome Depression CE Webinar Presenter: Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. 4pm – 5:30pm PST 3 CE’s Learn more or register here Nov. 5 Psychological Hardiness and Mental Health CE Webinar Presenter: Salvatore Maddi, Ph.D. 4pm – 5:30pm PST 3 CE’s L…

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Intimacy issues, alive to intimacy, the fantasy bond, Psychalive

Staying Compatible by Staying Yourself

…eir fantasy is being disrupted. They become cynical and disillusioned, and critical of each other. Neither idealization nor cynicism has a place in a relationship between two adults who see each other as real people with positive attributes, amusing idiosyncrasies and personal limitations and flaws. * Don’t distort your partner so that you can see him/her as perfect. * Don’t try to avoid seeing your partner’s flaws. * Don’t punish your partner for…

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prescription drug abuse, addiction

Is Our Aversion To Pain Killing Us?

…e, her notebooks became filled with her greatest fears, concerns, and self-critical thoughts that she’d tried to bury but that were keeping her mind from being at rest late at night, and often, for much of her days. As she wrote down and acknowledged these fears, she began to deal with them on a conscious and “feeling” level. Alleviating her fear of the anxiety in itself helped this woman to take control of her sleep disorder. Through dedication a…

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Effective Ways to Fight Depression

…leviate symptoms of depression. She will introduce a concept known as the “critical inner voice,” an internal enemy we all possess that fuels symptoms of depression and often discourages those suffering from engaging in the very behaviors that could help them feel better. Learning how to challenge this inner enemy and take the actions that can strengthen one’s real sense of self provides powerful tools for those fighting to overcome depression.  …

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