Tuesday is for Therapists: Biweekly Essays
This post is about the concepts of “bottom up,” “top down,” and how they relate to the art of communicating with the inner self, where problem patterns are formed and hopefully exchanged for healthier ones. I’ll start by putting these things in some...
Maybe it’s like the state of healthcare in the US, where corporate interests hove so overpowered the ranks of those who do the work that we have fallen into a state of passive demoralization. The field of psychotherapy is largely unaware that it is suffering the same fate. In our...
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We all have difficult cases and doubts. Of course you are hesitant to expose the areas where you feel unsure,...
The Affect Avoidance Framework adopts a modern view of mind to make lucid the problems psychotherapy is designed to treat as well as precisely how words and human interaction can produce enduring change. Today I’ve made a substantial addition to a previously shared diagram....
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Hi Jeffery,
I’d still be interested in your thoughts about online therapy as a continuing platform for therapy. It’s an issue for me because my therapist has decided to work only online. This means I will never meet her in person since I...
Internalizers Welcome: Share your difficult problems! Winning subscribers will receive free coaching via TIFT. All you have to do is Dare to Share (see below).
We all have difficult cases and doubts. As internalizers we think first of critiquing...
This is a continuation of TIFT #80, Confronting Therapist Anxiety. Here I share my own experience combining clinical knowledge with modern neuroscience to activate old patterns and deliver disconfirming information such that it reaches the limbic neurons where information needs to be...
The Dunning-Kruger Effect describes the fact that people of low competence tend to think they are highly skilled. At the same time, social researchers, Dunning and Kruger (1999), in a classic article, note that:
“Top-scoring individuals know that they are better than the average, but...
This is a follow-up to the previous post on how treating symptoms and diagnoses is so often unsuccessful because the real source of trouble is underlying immaturity, a very real problem that, unfortunately, has no diagnosis code. In that post, I described the problem. In this one, I...
One of the most troubling aspects of mental health treatment currently is the tendency to treat diagnoses instead of people. In the meantime we have a mental health crisis among teens and young adults where far too often, the underlying problem is developmental arrest, which isn’t...
A common clinical problem is the adult client who finds him or herself repeatedly overpowered by others. In this post, I’m sharing some thoughts about what we, as therapists, can do to help.
Choosing between survival and power
From TIFT #72, I want to repeat two points. First,...