Talking Therapies – Page 3 – A New Vision for Mental Health

It’s Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis

Author: Editorial 23rd January 2023 0 Comments

“I will challenge CBT’s understanding of mental illness and its therapeutic approach by evaluating the following interrelated claims made by CBT: 1) Individuals with mental illnesses have epistemic issues with their thoughts and that 2) CBT can rectify these epistemic…
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a coherent system

Aaron Beck, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Epistemology, Sahanika Ratnayake, Talking Therapies

The Effectiveness of an Intensive Inpatient Psychotherapy Program for Chronic Depression: A naturalistic comparison with wait list

Author: Editorial 12th December 2022 0 Comments

This paper has been published by BMC Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Background Patients with chronic depression (CD) typically have an early symptom onset, more psychiatric comorbidities, more treatment attempts, and more frequent and longer inpatient hospitalizations than patients with major depressive…
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affect phobia therapy, BMC Psychiatry, chronic depression, counseling, counselling, depression, psychotherapy, Research, Talking Therapies, VITA

Words As Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic

Author: Editorial 19th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Russell A. Lockhart. The publishers say: “Quietly passionate and urgently intent, this book belongs to the very best tradition of depth psychology. It appeals first of all to the intelligently psychological reader who wants new modes of…
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books, counseling, counselling, depth psychology, psychology, Russell A. Lockhart, Talking Therapies

Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by . The publishers say: “Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines she recounts five true…
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books, counseling, counselling, Deborah Anna Luepnitz, intimacy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

A walk on the wild side

Author: Editorial 16th June 2022 0 Comments

“A walk on the wild side” is an article by Nick Tarrant, in Therapy Today. It begins: “It’s a winter evening – cold, dark and raining – and we’re camped out on a piece of private land in rural Wiltshire. A…
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collaborative practice

counselling, ecotherapy, Nick Tarrant, Talking Therapies, Therapy Today, wilderness therapy

Therapy Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Editorial 3rd June 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “A nonjudgmental psychology is failing patients who need to hear hard truths”, this article by James Mumford has been published on The New Atlantis website. It begins: “It appears innocuous at first. The psychologist writes one word at the center…
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, James Mumford, psychology, Talking Therapies, The New Atlantis, values

The Psychologist

Author: Editorial 25th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Charlotte Beale has been published by Mad in the UK It begins: “One day, after very many preceding days, I decided to stop functioning. I lay in my mother’s bed, which was sodden with hours of tears, and…
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CBT, Charlotte Beale, Mad in the UK, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Schema Focus Therapy, Talking Therapies, trauma

Psychodynamic therapy helped me overcome trauma when CBT couldn’t

Author: Editorial 18th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “The first time I saw my therapist, she was standing in front of a room full of people, talking about William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies…
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CBT, emotions, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, post-traumatic stress disorder, Psyche, psychodynamic psychotherapy, PTSD, Talking Therapies, trauma

CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami

Author: Editorial 14th March 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Farhad Dalal. The publishers say: “Is CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of CBT’s understanding of human suffering, as well as the…
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books, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Farhad Dalal, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), managerialism, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), scientism, Talking Therapies

Three Surprising Facts About Psychotherapy You and Your Doctors Need to Know

Author: Editorial 12th May 2021 0 Comments

This article has been written by Dr. Daryl Chow and published on his Mind of Health blog. It begins: “This is for those who are thinking about seeking help. Maybe you are wondering, unsure of who to go to and what…
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counseling, counselling, Daryl Chow, Mind of Health (blog), NNT, Number needed to treat, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies