You probably haven’t heard the term antidote used in this context, but I’m proposing it because it is really helpful in bringing together elements from many therapies. It describes one of just three core elements that need to be present for psychotherapeutic change,...

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In the last TIFT I talked about how inner children signal their unmet needs. This article is to show how understanding the developmental context helps the therapist navigate. At every level, inner children are likely to expect the therapist to be unwilling, like the parent, so they...

This is the first of a series of Tuesday emails offering useful tidbits for clinical psychotherapy. Normally this will be on Tuesday, but this is the first time. Oh well...

This post is about making sense of some very difficult problems in psychotherapy through a developmental point of...