Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is sometimes accused of being focused on illness. That it doesn’t appreciate the whole of life because it has developed from treating sick people rather than healthy people. I think this is partly unfair. Medical doctors don’t get criticised for focusing on sick people and I think it denigrates the compassion that can be [...]
It’s been a great time in the part of the blogoshpere that I inhabit: lots of excellent posts. So here are some excellent posts that I have found from my travels in the blogosphere lately. First up a couple of posts from one of my new favourite bloggers, kaushik at beyond karma. First up is [...]
Two studies on the power of thought. The first found that counselling is 32 times more effective than money at increasing happiness (there has been a bit of discussion about this in the blogosphere) – some of the responses are quite possibly evil I think. The second study found that thinking of a loved one [...]
This is a guest post from Marie who writes the Coming Out of the Trees blog. This is a remarkable blog – it is excerpts from Marie’s journal about therapy and her therapeutic journey. It is consistently well written – vivid and with depth too. It may not be for you if you are in [...]
In my experience making significant and lasting change means dealing with the stuff we don’t like about ourselves. Broadly speaking there are two ways to do this: try to ignore/suppress/eliminate it; or we can, welcome/embrace/learn from it. The biggest problem with the attempt to ignore/suppress/eliminate the parts of ourselves we don’t like is that it [...]
One of the more exciting developments in therapy over the last few years is online therapy. This is different to face to face therapy – and has some strengths that face to face therapy doesn’t have. People may be more willing to do therapy online as they may feel that it is less confronting – [...]
This is just a quick note to alert you to a very thought provoking post. Meditation is usually taken to be at worst harmless and usually very beneficial. In my experience meditation has been beneficial. This post is about the experience of a zen practitioner who found that meditation was (at least) not enough. His [...]
Robert Graves, a friend of mine, and I have a blog. It is called Community Psychotherapy. We started it because of our frustration with the way most psychotherapy is done. The impetus was Robert’s work as a community development worker. The normal ways of doing psychotherapy (ie. talking one on one in an office) didn’t [...]
