Author name: Noel Bell

I am a psychotherapist practicing online and based in London.

Dealing with endings

We all have endings, whether it is with people, jobs, courses, families, therapy, groups, schooling, etc. How we deal with our own individual endings is often a reflection of how we dealt with endings within our family. Families tend to set the blue print for how we operate in groups and how we left our family

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The treatment of personality disorders with psychotherapy

I attended another DSM 5 seminar at the weekend on the management of personality disorders which I found to be very informative. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The manual is used by psychiatrists and other health care professionals as a diagnostic tool for

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My interview with Windy Dryden about CBT and integrative psychotherapy

I recently chatted with Windy Dryden about CBT and integrative psychotherapy. Windy was the first appointed professor of counselling studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1992. In the interview we discuss the challenges of editing the Handbook on Individual Therapy, often viewed as essential reading for anyone wanting to know more about counselling

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DSM 5: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

It seemed appropriate that I recently attended a DSM 5 seminar entitled Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, given that the recent World Mental Health Day centred on the theme ‘Living with Schizophrenia’. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and is used

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Creating greater connection with essence to better cope with triggers to addictive processes

Creating greater connection with essence to better cope with triggers to addictive processes What? an experiential workshop Where? CCPE, 2 Warwick Crescent, London W2 6NE (see map below) When? 29 & 30 November, 2014 Having gained insight from how to deal with addictive processes, are you now ready to look deeper within? Would you like

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Meditative practice can help the physical brain to change for the better

In an era when public health commissioners are intent on establishing the evidence base of psychological interventions, and often, as a result, concentrate on one particular approach, it was refreshing to recently discover the book The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz, a psychiatrist and meditator and a proponent of mind/body dualism. The book investigates neuroplasticity and maintains that

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My interview with Jocelyn Chaplin

I met the wonderful Jocelyn Chaplin the other day and we had an amazing chat about feminism, psycho-spiritual development and integrative psychotherapy – at her consulting room in North London. We also chatted about seemingly anything, and everything, remotely relevant to counselling and psychotherapy and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Her recent book was Deep Equality:

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Do unpaid placements abuse trainee psychotherapists?

I read with interest the article in the April 2014 edition of Therapy Today about bullying in the workplace and specifically when the bully is another therapist. The article by Dr Werner Kierski and Jessica Johns-Green raised a number of important issues which resonated with my own experiences undergoing psychotherapeutic training. The authors refer to a

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