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Is your therapy making your clients worse? The Guardian Strikes Again
A while ago, an article appeared in The Guardian, one of the U.K.’s largest daily newspapers. “Counselling and Therapy can be Harmful,” the headline boldly asserted, citing results of a study yet to be published. It certainly got my attention. Do some people in therapy get worse? The answer is, most assuredly, “Yes.” Research dating — read more
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Good News and Bad News about Psychotherapy
Have you seen this month’s issue of, “The National Psychologist?” If you do counseling or psychotherapy, you should read it. The headline screams, “Therapy: No Improvement for 40 Years.” And while I did not know the article would be published, I was not surprised by the title nor it’s contents. The author and associate editor, — read more
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What’s disturbing Mental Health? Opportunities Lost
In a word, paperwork. Take a look at the book pictured above. That massive tome on the left is the 2011 edition of "Laws and Regulations" governing mental health practice in the state of California. Talk about red tape! Hundreds and hundreds of pages of statutes informing, guiding, restricting, and regulating the "talking cure." Now,… — read more
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Top Resources for Top Performers
Since the 1960’s, over 10,000 "how-to" book on psychotherapy have been published. I joke about this fact at my workshops, stating "Any field that needs ten thousand books to describe what it’s doing…surely doesn’t know what its doing!" I continue, pointing out that, "There aren’t 10,000 plus books on ‘human anatomy,’ for example. There are a handful! … — read more