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Psychotherapy, supervision, training, and the craft of helping people change.
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Just One More Session: On asking clients to meet again before dropping us
You’ve been seeing a client for therapy, perhaps thinking everything was going well enough, and suddenly receive a voicemail, email, or text message shutting it down: “Please cancel our …
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Mentalizing As Functional Inquiry
How to move away from “interpreting” or “challenging” patients, and toward relating to them as full mental partners
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How to Succeed or Fail as a Psychotherapist
A clear, practical guide to mentalizing and its failure modes in psychotherapy.
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Why Recording Sessions Makes You A Better Therapist
The dirty secret of clinical training, and one practice that reliably improves client outcomes.
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The Problems With Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
There has been a tremendous movement toward evidence-based treatment in clinical psychology over the past decade. On its face, this is a good thing — the idea that we should use scientific …
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Early Recollections And The Lifestyle
A few years ago, when I was only just beginning to learn about Adlerian theory and therapy, I attended a workshop given by Al Milliren for the Chicago Adlerian Society. The topic was the …
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The Medical Model of Psychology
The “medical model” that currently guides the majority of psychological research, assessment, and treatment is a deeply entrenched historical, social, and political phenomenon (Maddux, …