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What is a Mentally Healthy Person? An Interview with Robert Firestone, Ph.D.

…person who was non-defensive; a person who had a strong sense of values; a person whose values were inner directed, rather than outer directed; a person who was neither defiant nor submissive, but independent. Basically, I would like them to have human qualities; the capacity to be compassionate, the capacity to deal with abstract reasoning, the capacity to be creative, to express their uniqueness as a person. Without a sense of your own values, y…

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fear of abandonment

Fear of Abandonment

…xed. We can develop earned secure attachment as adults in several ways. As Dr. Lisa Firestone, who recently co-taught the online course Making Sense of Your Life: Understanding Your Past to Liberate Your Present and Empower Your Future with Dr. Daniel Siegel, has said, “What’s broken in a relationship can often be fixed in a relationship.” What she means by this is not that a person’s current partner can be expected to fill the voids or heal all w…

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how to move on

How to Move On

…t something that happens after we split up. Often, couples enter into what Dr. Firestone calls a “fantasy bond,” an illusion of connection that replaces real relating and genuine acts of love and intimacy. Symptoms of a fantasy bond can include relating as a unit, valuing the form of being a couple over the substance of making contact, falling into routine, lacking independence, engaging in less affection, and entering into dynamics of control and…

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True Love: What Love Is and What It Is Not

…nk of love is as a verb. Love is dynamic and requires action to thrive. As Dr. Firestone wrote, “Often, we spend our time worrying about what our partner feels toward us or how the relationship looks from the outside. Even though it feels good to be loved by someone else, each one of us can only really feel our loving feelings for another person and not that person’s feelings for us. In order to connect with and sustain those loving feelings withi…

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Survivors: Those Who Have Lost Someone to Suicide

…m includes interviews with several of America’s leading researchers and clinicians on the latest advances and trends in suicide prevention research, as well as warning signs, risk factors and appropriate treatments for suicidal patients. Learn More Here…

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Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

…Relationships and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Visit her site at www.drlisa*]}*firestone.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 chronically stuck in a traumatized state. . The ‘A…

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PTSD: Why Does It Happen? How Survivors Can Heal

…ep returning and intruding on the person’s present awareness. What are the Warning Signs and Symptoms of PTSD? PTSD is a specific kind of stress-related disorder, diagnosed by mental health care professionals using a standard guidebook, known as the DSM. No words can describe the debilitating impact of severe trauma on survivors. But a diagnosis can help people with PTSD seek appropriate treatment. The DSM lists four clusters of symptoms: Flashbac…

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How to Find a Good Therapist

…. What are some signs that a therapist is a bad fit or a good fit for you? Signs of a bad fit Signs of a good fit You feel judged or ashamed. You feel heard and even better, understood. The therapist talks about the therapist’s own issues or is multi-tasking. Talking to you is the priority – no distractions. You feel talked to or at. The therapist asks questions to get to know you and collaborates with you on your care. The therapist does not seem…

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Saving Lives From Suicide: Two-Part CE Webinar

…uicidal ideation and behavior. This two-part CE webinar with suicidologist Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide an opportunity for therapists to become familiar with risk assessment and effective crisis interventions, as well as empirically validated, evidence-based treatments for suicide that are fast becoming the standard of care.   Learning Objectives: Discuss how to implement state of the art crisis intervention for suicidal patients Identify a num…

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Suicide: What Therapists Need to Know

…alidated treatments. This Webinar will: (1) provide the latest findings on warning signs and risk factors for suicide, (2) offer a conceptual model and a developmental perspective on the dynamics underlying suicide, (3) explore the internal struggle, the ambivalence of suicide, through expert interviews and insight provided by 3 survivors of very lethal suicide attempts, (4) address both objective assessment and the formation of clinical judgment,…

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