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.
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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 »
Warning
Posted in For patients, UK, tagged diagnosis, distress, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychiatry, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy on July 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Many people seem to have bad experiences of mental health care in the NHS, yet relatively few complain. More complaints would put more pressure on NHS managers to improve. So why don’t more people complain?
Wisdom
Posted in CBT, depression, For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged CBT, emotion, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, psychotherapy, recovery, relationships, therapy, victim on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There was a psychiatrist (now retired) whose referrals for psychotherapy would include helpful advice about how CBT treatment should proceed. Alas, this psychiatrist had only the vaguest idea about how CBT works, and the advice invariably missed the point.
Shock horror!
Posted in CBT, depression, For patients, For therapists, Research, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged case study, CBT, distress, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy on July 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
You’ll enjoy this. No, really. Let me be clear: you will enjoy this. Otherwise there could be unpleasant consequences.
Phew!
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged Carl Rogers, case study, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy, zen on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s a very warm day here today, by UK standards, too warm to stay outside. So here I am, catching up on the huge backlog of blogs in my reader. Time was, I followed just a few mental health bloggers, reading everything. But I gradually added more and more feeds until now there is just too much to take in.
The trouble is, all of it is important — important enough for those bloggers to write about and share with the world, and surely important enough for me to read. Nevertheless, it’s a task in which I fail.
Failure
Posted in CBT, depression, For patients, Techniques, UK, tagged BABCP, CBT, counseling, counselling, emotion, feelings, mental illness, NHS, psychotherapy, recovery, relationships, therapy on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s time for me to face it. CBT just doesn’t work (in some cases). Even formulated CBT with an experienced therapist can sometimes be a failure. (more…)
Flowers and grapes
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, UK, tagged family, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, recovery, relationships, therapy on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Techniques, tagged addiction, CBT, counseling, counselling, emotion, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychodynamic, psychology, psychotherapy, recovery, relationships, supervision, therapy, transference, vampires on October 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
My recent ranting about fundamental difficulties with the psychodynamic approach to counselling and psychotherapy has one last twist.
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