Jack

There’s a way of doing psychotherapy that’s known as integrative, because it is supposed to integrate other ways of doing psychotherapy. You get the best of them all that way…or do you?

Gremlins

Gremlins have attacked my computer. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Off the record

There has been some discussion recently amongst BABCP members in private about whether or not it is desirable to record therapy sessions, either just the sound, or on video. Whatever your views on the subject, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s good to know that professionals discuss these matters amongst themselves and learn from each other in the process.

Saturation

Market saturation is when the producers of a product or service are producing just enough to satisfy demand, but no more. It’s much easier if businesses can control demand to match their production capacity, and this is what sophisticated marketing aims to do. Sophisticated marketing of this kind dominates CBT in the UK, but you probably don’t notice it.

Anon.

Ever since I started writing here, I have thought of myself as an anonymous blogger. That’s not the case at all, it turns out, as two separate things that happened to me last week revealed. The two experiences illuminated opposite sides of what it means to have an identity, and why identity is important for psychotherapists.

Dots

A neuroscientist at University College London has explained how CBT works using coloured dots.

That is, his explanation uses coloured dots. CBT doesn’t use coloured dots (though if some wacky ‘third-wave’ therapy based on coloured dots turned up next week heralded as a new form of CBT it would not surprise me one bit).

Gem

This little gem of a sketch raises interesting questions about imbalance of power in the relationship between therapist and patient, the influence of the therapist’s own fears in informing intuition and advanced empathy, and more…or perhaps less.

Flowers and grapes

What do flowers and grapes have to do with mental health? It’s usual, when reviewing a newspaper article, to add some comment, but I think this one speaks for itself…

Twist

My recent ranting about fundamental difficulties with the psychodynamic approach to counselling and psychotherapy has one last twist.

Hot babes

For all these years I’ve been lacking the most important skills to succeed with hot women. In fact, I’ve been acting like a BNB (‘boring nervous bonehead’) around them. But now, at last, I’ve discovered how to get sex with hot babes.