Therapy
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@PoetryofAfter 2/ This has implications for treatment, especially when dealing with long-standing, ingrained relational patterns (i.e., most people in psychotherapy). Interventions...
Use heat to heal. Saunas, an underrated longevity and mood-boosting therapeutic. A THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/YyIdo5A4MS
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1/ People who become therapists often "served as emotional caregivers in our families of origin." Their results in "a preference for passivity, an overemphasis on the client as a...
As a therapist, I found one common dynamic that keeps people in a cycle of feeling hurt and misunderstood. This dynamic is called the determiner and saver:
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy catches a lot of shit for the way it's abused by the system, and ok, fair enough. But no one who's doing it well is using it as a standalone modality...
“Even in psychoanalytic circles the idea of conflict between therapist and client as essential to the process appears to have been largely abandoned. It has been replaced by the id...
By age 30, you should be smart enough to never do this in your life: https://t.co/6j6nLX4RSD
Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset https://t.co/iANOBiG7rf
touch. the most natural way for humans to calm down is by being touched, hugged and rocked. this helps with excessive arousal and makes you feel safe, intact, protected and in char...
1/ It troubles me when therapists avoid the word "attachment" & instead warn about "dependency" Meaningful psychotherapy *requires* attachment. Without secure attachment to the th...
Alright let's do this 1 retweet = 1 harsh Psychology truth from a retired psychotherapist
"[The therapist] avoids being too supportive, because he hopes not only to offer sustaining help but also, through his therapeutic attitude of being nonjudgmental, noncondemning, n...
Goddamn, just from the abstract alone “Specifically, standard mental health scales appear unable to distinguish between genuine mental health and the facade or illusion of mental...
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/ Transference 🧵 "A person starting therapy is entering an unfamiliar situation & a new relationship & necessarily applies their previously formed templates, scripts, or schemas...
1/ When you're feeling awful about therapy with a particular patient—hopeless, despondent, overwhelmed, incompetent, furious—it may be because they are (unconsciously) communicatin...
2/ More specifically: we assume no one fully knows their own heart and mind & there is value in greater self-knowledge ("shadow work"), we understand problems in the context of the...
1/ Poll by @GoldfriedMarvin shows how CBT fails to grasp the role of the therapy relationship in psychodynamic treatment He can't conceive of a 3rd option 🔥The therapy relationsh...
@JonathanShedler Also, this hate is not to be used as an example of a “cognitive distortion” where one can deploy CBT techniques to realize it is irrational. In a therapy relations...
This is from Amy Wenzel, Handbook of Cognitive Behvioral Therapy (2021) chapter on therapeutic relationship, & special attention to @JonathanShedler ☺️ and it turned on she shares...
For some people in psychotherapy, the core psychological issue is *they cannot maintain relationships* OF COURSE they will want to end the therapy relationship before real therapy...
I’m going to talk about therapy. The world needs more high-profile people to talk about it, help normalize it, explain why it’s good, and remove the stigma surrounding it. I have...
