Tag: therapy
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Los Feliz Therapy
Read more: Los Feliz TherapyIf you’re looking for a therapist in Los Feliz, you’ve likely noticed how much the neighborhood has grown into a hub for mental health care. When I first opened my office here, finding therapy or psychiatry often meant driving across the city. Today, with more local psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and wellness providers, it’s much easier to…
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Politics in Therapy
Read more: Politics in TherapyIn case you missed it: Why Therapists Should Talk Politics (NYT): There comes a time when people can’t take it anymore, when too much is being demanded of them. How much blame can people tolerate directing at themselves? When do they turn it outward? My sense is that psychotherapists are playing a significant role in…
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West Meets East
Read more: West Meets EastRonald Siegel wrote this long article about mindfulness and psychotherapy for the clinician-readers of Psychotherapy Networker. Doesn’t mean you can’t give it a look. A sample: [M]indfulness is the opposite of experiential avoidance…It allows us to feel the urge to have an alcohol drink arise and pass rather than heading to the bottle, to get on the…
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Shoulding
Read more: ShouldingCBTer Judith Beck uses a client vignette to look at guilt and the “shoulds.” John holds certain values quite dear and believes he is violating those values when he doesn’t quite live up to them. He is plagued with the shoulds: I SHOULD work harder; I SHOULD be a better husband/father/son/sister/community member. Every time John…
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Personality Delays Depression Treatment
Read more: Personality Delays Depression TreatmentFalse negatives in assessing depression occur with the outgoing and bubbly, a study says. “When a person who has enjoyed socializing and whose mood normally is positive becomes depressed, friends and family often don’t recognize it. Depression is inconsistent with the expectations that people have…”