Tag: therapy
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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 BooksThese are books you may find useful, whether or not you’re in therapy. Most are practical, and several are workbooks, which work best when you actually do the exercises and don’t just read about them, a distinction most of us learn the hard way. The last two are about meaning and about therapy itself. Anxiety…
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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…
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Adventure Therapy
Read more: Adventure TherapySkiing, pizza, and group–program for teens profiled in the Calgary Herald: There’s no texting on skis. No distractions. Just fresh air and the challenge of learning a new sport. So-called “bad kids” can leave their reputation behind at school and forge a better one in the outdoors. That’s the theory behind the Adventure Therapy program,…
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Dealing with Chronic Pain
Read more: Dealing with Chronic PainA new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic…