In this interview Dr Patrick Carnes chats to Joe Polish, founder of the Genius Network about sex addiction, neuroscience and the most effective treatment for addictive behaviours. I have listened to this interview, usually as an mp3 file on my phone, many times and always seem to learn something new each time I listen to […]
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I was reading about the military experiences of Robin Horsfall, a former SAS sniper, in a newspaper article yesterday in which he recounted his involvement in the storming of the Iranian embassy on May 5 1980. That particular event predated my arrival to London but I can still recall the dramatic live TV pictures at the
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I read Dr Marie Adam’s article on ‘Therapists are human too’ with interest (Therapy Today, November, 2014). The article starts by asking whether counsellors in training pitch up for their therapy sessions without really ‘doing the work’. I’ve had the same thought: how many counsellors in training ‘do the work’ even on their courses? Do
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In this podcast I had a fascinating chat with Tommy Hanchen, about his article Quantum Leaps in the Evolution of Therapeutic Hypnosis in which he argues that contemporary psychotherapy owes a great debt of gratitude to the history of hypnosis. In the interview we discuss the work of Franz Mesmer, James Braid and Ernest Rossi as well
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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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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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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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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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I spent a day in the garden today and it was a nice escape from the demands of academic books. Working in the garden is not compulsory, of course, in order to get away from the intellectual realm. The earth breath technique can be done anywhere and can be a vital part of integrative psychotherapeutic
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I came across 3-s therapy or Spiritual Self-Schema in my recent reading. This is a manual based therapy developed by Avants and Margolin. The chief objective of the therapy is to enable clients to develop, build upon and habitually activate a cognitive schema, which is what is referred to as the Spiritual self-schema. See the step by step guide
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