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  • Treating Chronic Pain

    Back at Where the Client Is, a new interview with psychoanalyst Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD about treating pain the Dr. John Sarno way: By getting at underlying, unfelt emotion. Not mainstream at the moment, but look out. (The interview is intended for therapists, but is still readable.) Key: For people who have great difficulty being…

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  • On “On Death and Dying” (and Others)

    Another in case you missed it, this one from the New Yorker:  “Good Grief: Is there a better way to be bereaved?” looks at how we cope with death and loss. One autumn day in 1964, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist, was working in her garden and fretting about a lecture she had to give.…

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  • Ecopsychology

    In case you missed it, last weekend’s NYT Magazine asks, “Is There an Ecological Unconscious?” There are numerous psychological subfields that, to one degree or another, look at the interplay between human beings and their natural environment. But ecopsychology embraces a more revolutionary paradigm: just as Freud believed that neuroses were the consequences of dismissing…

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  • Cut Off from the Neck Down

    A big excerpt from Daniel Siegel’s “Mindsight” is up at wheretheclientis.com.  Dr. Siegel is a prolific brain science-meets therapy-meets mindfulness writer, based at UCLA.  PR says: • Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can’ t shake? • Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard…

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  • L.A. Therapists on Twitter

    In the not-so-long-ago olden times, people looking for therapy would generally get a referral from someone they knew, go to the therapist, and get therapy.  Simple as that. Things are different.  Now you can shop online for a therapists via various directories (e.g., Psychology Today), therapist websites, blogs, and, if you like, on twitter. Therapists tend…

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