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The 10 most common psychological mistakes made by financial traders

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There are lots of reasons for making psychological mistakes when trading in financial markets. The recent lock-down experience has witnessed an explosion in the number of day traders seeking to capitalise on increasingly volatile markets in addition to others seeking to make financial trading a source of additional income or as a means of changing

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Scott Miller on deliberate practice

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Today I interviewed Scott Miller about what works in counselling and psychotherapeutic practice and how to boost one’s effectiveness as a practitioner. Scott is the founder of international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators (ICCE), which is dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioural health. He is the author of many books, the most recent one

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Sexual anorexia and the challenge of social isolation

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The term sexual anorexia is one (amongst many) that causes a fair bit of conflicting discussion in the addiction treatment and therapy field. For some the term trivialises the more serious eating disorder conditions by seeking to give credibility to a behavioural pattern that is not pathological. For others the two conditions share similar characteristics

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Stockpiling is entirely rational to prepare for uncertainty

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These are crazy times. Amidst the widening economic, social and health crisis associated with the spread of the COVID-19 disease there has been a lot of hysterical reports in the media about so-called panic buying in the shops and how people are acting irrationally on the high street. I wonder whether such reporting is actually proving

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My interview with Dr Paul J. Leslie

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This podcast interview with Dr Paul J. Leslie discusses the issues contained within his latest book release The Art of Creating a Magical Session. Paul is a licensed psychotherapist and educator, based in South Carolina. In the interview we discuss what might be considered the key elements necessary to bring about transformational therapeutic change in clients. The book

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Dependence and addiction are often conflated in treatment and recovery circles

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Physical dependence is not the same as addiction but the terms are often conflated in treatment and recovery circles. Physical dependence is a process that occurs when the brain adapts to the effects of a drug and develops the phenomenon of tolerance. In other words, an individual will require more and more of the particular

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