Tag: therapy
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The Depression Debate
Read more: The Depression DebateA while back, I linked to Louis Menand’s big New Yorker article about the history of depression treatment. Didn’t read it? Here’s a conversation about the piece–The Depression Debate–in a podcast from the magazine’s website. Meds, placebos, Freud, CBT, and depression itself all come under the microscope.
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Self-Defeating Behavior
Read more: Self-Defeating BehaviorPsychiatrist Richard Friedman, MD, writing about on self-defeating behavior in the NYT, confronts a client with a long pattern of not-so-coincidental-seeming disappointments: “Do you ever wonder why so many disappointing things happen to you?” I asked. “Is it just chance, or might you have something to do with it?” His reply was a resentful question:…
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Psychotherapies
Read more: PsychotherapiesMaybe this is for therapists only, but take a look at Wikipedia’s long list of psychotherapies if you’ve got some time to kill and some curiosity about the different approaches to therapy that are out there. The list goes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (which I’ m a fan of) to Wilderness Therapy (haven’t tried).…
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Therapy Books
Read more: Therapy BooksA reader poll at Where the Client Is came up with the “best-ever therapy books” for therapists and for everyone. Both list-toppers, I think, make good “everybody” titles. They are: Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl The Gift of Therapy, by Irvin Yalom Both worth the time.
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Manufacturing Depression
Read more: Manufacturing DepressionA long review/think piece in the New Yorker about therapy and psychiatry, including the view from Gary Greenberg’s book, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease: Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to…