Interesting Psychotherapy Articles

Not just about doctors, despite the title, but mental health professionals in general.

Why Many Doctors Are Authoritarians – and Harmful - Mad In America

Those people are truly clueless and out of touch.
Read the comment about the jerk who tries to get clients to sign "boundary contracts"

February Quandary: My Clients Are Asking Personal Questions!

Boundary contracts!!

A contract about boundaries- these therapists are so far up their own hole, it’s unbelievable

Believable.

If the guy can't handle being asked personal questions, I think he should be looking for a new profession instead of writing articles.

Some of these therapists are nuts.

Childhood Trauma Can Make Severe Depression More Likely

Childhood trauma can make severe depression more likely, finds report - The Scotsman

Maybe a bit tangential, but I really enjoyed Carolyn Spring's latest blog

When safe feels unsafe | Carolyn Spring

Well, I was on a totally different PC page when my cat swiped my iPad and I landed here... and clicked the article... dang, that was a sucker punch to the gut... ahh... thanks though.

Healing A Damaged Self

Not sure if this blog has been posted before but damn does he hit my issues with attachment, transference and desperate inner child needs from the therapist.

Does anyone know of any articles related to avoidant attachment and therapy?

Attachment Theory & Treatment: 4 Maxims for Therapeutic Change

and it refers to David Wallin's book on attachment in therapy

here is a video that talks about how those people manipulate clients into attachment
Connecting with Avoidant Clients

Therapist's metaphors
The mighty metaphor: a collection of therapists’ favourite metaphors and analogies

I find it funny how therapist make themselves so important. In the second article Diane talks about a client who found the therapy so threatening he used to take his glasses off to keep her face a blur.
Wtf, maybe he was shortsighted and didn’t need them. Don’t know why but I wanted to punch her after reading this

I think they might be better served looking at their own lies.

The truth about lies

Idiotic things therapists say:
‘Harmless’ Comments Therapists Said That Actually Hurt Their Patients | The Mighty

Effectiveness of Talk Therapy Is Overstated, a Study Says - The New York Times

I agree. Clients might be better served, too.

Some of those guys are giant jerks in real life.

Bessel van der Kolk and Joseph Spinazzola both fired from their trauma research institute | Student Doctor Network

The day my therapist killed himself: shock, tears and then came a revelation | Life and style | The Guardian

At least one of them admits they are just acting:
The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians

Toward a Critical Self-Reflective Psychiatry: An interview with Pat Bracken

This is not an article - just a horrifying thread on reddit where some of those people admit they get their "interventions" (what a load a crap) from youtube
https://www.reddit.com/r/psychothera...ions_that_you/

Depressed People See the World More Realistically - VICE

Why Do Placebos 'Work'?

They lie and they act (a therapist who identified themselves as aspd):
"If you had ASPD wouldn't you not be able to see something as wrong or reprehensible?
Sure, my "default" state is unable to see something as wrong or reprehensible. But years of therapy and coaching and training have taught me how to. Instead of being an innate compass, it's more of a skill to me, the same way a person learns to read or write. It's not necessarily something I feel, but it's something that I recognize *should* be "messed up" to others, and therefore I am able to ID that. Does that make sense?.......It might be helpful if you could describe your perception of ASPD, and I can help alleviate the concerns I’m not a sadist (poor Christian Bale hasn’t done much to paint us in a good light haha) and I’m not out to do harm. ASPD simply means that things don’t “get to” me. Patient hates me? Shrug, idgaf. Patients gang up and whine that the group I’m running is challenging? Good, you need to be challenged. Patient is struggling with a tough emotion? Okay, I’ve been trained on how to help them through this. I don’t need to feel the emotion to be able to identify and help them through it, the same way a doctor doesn’t need to have diabetes to treat it.
Or on the flip side, do y’all need to personally feel the schizophrenia, the OCD, or the depression to be able to effectively treat it? Nope. Think of someone with ASPD as an extreme - I don’t feel much of anything when I encounter another person, but that doesn’t mean I’m not effective at treating it. I don’t feel pity or sadness when someone tells me about their abuse or trauma, but I will try my damn hardest to make them feel better and help them process.
I also work largely from a psychoanalytic orientation and it works well for me. I can easily take on that tabula rasa front."