Jonathan Shedler
Professor, psychologist, author. Tweets about psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy. I say the quiet part out loud.
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If your therapist gives advice about what to do, it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad advice. What matters is you’re not getting psychotherapy. Advice is cheap, and real psychot...
9 tips for getting the most from teletherapy* 1️⃣ The most important thing is privacy. Please do whatever it takes to make certain you are in a private place where you will not be...
"Patients lingered for hours on gurneys with serious, time-sensitive problems. Surgeries were delayed. Other patients developed bed sores—gaping wounds that for frail patients can...
1/ I had a role on the first task force on ESTs. This was the report that put the concept of EST on the map. The original intent was to counteract the oversized influence of big ph...
1/ I caught myself doing exactly what I teach others NOT to do. I was solicitous & conciliatory because I didn't want to take the brunt of a patient's intense anger They have a ri...
Not sure I want to answer to "psychtwit" That said, every clinician is different & needs to discover their own rhythms. Assuming you are doing relationship-based/exploratory psych...
@aidangcw @drjanaway Yes, most of the empirical work is done by people who are not not clinicians & do not understand the clinical personality constructs. We have a century of accr...
Here's one takeaway (of many) from this interesting thread. Empathy is not a technique. It's also not caretaking, warmth or sympathy. Real empathy is attunement to the patient's ac...
1/ People often ask what readings I recommend for clinicians & trainees who want to learn about psychodynamic therapy. Here's a partial list For a bird's eye, jargon-free introduc...
This is not what happens in real psychotherapy. This is not what skilled psychotherapists do. It may be called "therapy." It may be marketed as "therapy." But it is not psychothera...
1/ It causes me pain when I hear someone describe themselves as "a person living with [psychiatric disorder]" the way they might say "I'm a person living with diabetes"—when I know...
1/ If a therapy patient describes something & omits how they feel, *there's a reason* for the omission, not necessarily conscious. It's more helpful to be curious about the omissio...