An animated TV documentary broadcast by the BBC illustrates some useful ideas in counselling and psychotherapy. It’s a bit creepy, too.
Posts Tagged ‘childhood’
Creepy
Posted in CBT, For patients, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged case study, CBT, childhood, counseling, counselling, emotion, family, feelings, love, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, relationships on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reflection
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Research, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged BABCP, CBT, childhood, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, recovery, Research, therapy, training on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent research study that asked CBT therapists to reflect on their own thoughts illustrates unwittingly how poor some CBT training has become.
Grass
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Review, tagged Carl Rogers, CBT, childhood, diagnosis, mental health, mental illness, paradox, psychiatry, psychotherapy, relationships, schizophrenia, therapy on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Far away to the North, in Lapland, some say, Santa’s elves are elving away making Christmas presents ready for good little girls and boys. What would be on a mental health Christmas list, I wonder? Immediate response to every psychiatric crisis? Coordinated team treatment without any referrals or waiting lists? Effective home treatment that keeps people off medication and out of hospital? Perhaps, if you’ve been very, very good…
Stigma
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Review, UK, tagged BABCP, case study, CBT, childhood, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy on October 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The BABCP recently lent its support to a confused and misleading media campaign about stigma and mental health. Now it has added to the confusion by publishing an embarrassing case study showcasing the worst kind of failed CBT.
Storage
Posted in CBT, depression, For therapists, Techniques, tagged CBT, childhood, emotion, feelings, mental illness, psychology, psychotherapy, relationships, therapy on June 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As the warm weather here continues, I naturally have thoughts of chilly places — cold storage for example. We put things in cold storage so that they will still be fresh when we retrieve them.
Cake
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, tagged amnesia, case study, CBT, childhood, counseling, counselling, detachment, distress, entrapment, escape, family, feelings, Freud, koan, love, mental health, mental illness, paradox, proverb, psychiatry, psychodynamic, psychology, psychotherapy, reality, schizophrenia, therapy, transference, victim, zen on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to the proverb:
You can’t have your cake and eat it.
According to another proverb:
There’s no such word as “can’t”.
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