Interesting Psychotherapy Articles

stopdog · Jan 09, 2016, 11:21 PM

50 Warning Signs of Questionable Therapy and Counseling

stopdog · Jan 16, 2016, 01:14 AM

Interesting set of tricks they use and interesting language:
"You Can't Make Me!" - Effective Techniques for Managing Highly Resistant Clients - by Clifton Mitchell, Ph.D.

stopdog · Jan 16, 2016, 01:26 AM

And this fun quote
"When clients drop out early, everyone loses. We clinicians lose a chance to help someone in need and our wallets and reputation suffer as well. The consequences for clients are even more dire. Those clients who drop out early display poor treatment outcomes, over-utilize mental health services, and demoralize clinicians."

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/therapy-failure

Poor demoralized clinicians.

stopdog · Jan 16, 2016, 01:28 AM

And more of their techniques to be aware of "friendly persuasion"

http://www.unk.com/blog/psychotherap...ore-receptive/

stopdog · Jan 16, 2016, 01:53 AM

Some Patients Arouse Hatred, Therapists Find - NYTimes.com

I like how they put the focus on some patients arouse hatred rather than therapists can hate - if those pesky clients would not arouse them all would be well.

stopdog · Jan 16, 2016, 01:57 AM

Info and a questionnaire about whether the therapist is helping or not

Have doubts about your therapy? Test it online!

stopdog · Jan 16, 2016, 02:52 AM

A description of therapist types
Psych Gripe: therapist typology

precaryous · Jan 19, 2016, 02:07 AM

Therapy Wars: Psychoanalysis vs. CBT

Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud | Oliver Burkeman | Science | The Guardian

WrkNPrgress · 12:33 PM

Here's something kind of fun. It's not an article but a fictional short story read out loud. The programs contains three stories. A funny one about a group of clients who get together to discuss their therapist is @ thirty minutes in. (Bonus: The program is hosted by David Strathairn, my favorite on-screen Psyche from "Alphas")

"True Confessions"

I am just a few minutes in but laughing because of similarities with my own Therapy session, mainly the T being sucha mystery and insisting the patient start at each session.

precaryous · Jan 25, 2016, 08:00 PM

The brochure, "Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex."

Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex - California Department of Consumer Affairs

Document about the law in California requiring distribution of "Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex" to clients who report alleged sexual intercourse or alleged sexual contact during the course of a prior treatment.

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Jan 26, 2016, 03:29 AM

Blog article on trying to cry in therapy by Ryan Howes
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...cry-in-therapy

stopdog · Jan 31, 2016, 10:43 PM

Check out the language used when the therapist describes therapists versus the verbs and adjectives she uses about clients.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/arti...ing-boundaries

stopdog · Jan 31, 2016, 10:45 PM

What Therapists say they Learn from Clients

http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR17/hatcher.pdf

stopdog · Jan 31, 2016, 10:55 PM

Bad Therapists

https://www.continuingedcourses.net/.../course050.php

I particularly enjoyed this category:
"Signs that the Client is the More Powerful Individual in the Relationship"

This is how they see themselves.

stopdog · Feb 02, 2016, 12:40 AM

The Theory That Says Some Depressed People Might Be Right - KnowledgeNuts

stopdog · Feb 04, 2016, 06:21 PM

Reflections of a Lone Wolf Maddass in Search of a Better World - Mad In America

Feb 06, 2016, 04:03 PM

Basic but popular and informative article explaining Erotic vs. Eroticized Transference:

Recognizing and Managing Erotic and Eroticized Transferences

Psychiatry (Edgmont). 2007 Apr; 4(4): 47–50
PMCID: PMC2921238

Also a good article for those new to this subject.

Out There · Feb 10, 2016, 12:42 AM

Unspoken « what a shrink thinks

caseygirl · Feb 11, 2016, 08:52 AM

Can a Psychotherapist Brainwash a Client?

Source: PsychCentral.com

stopdog · Feb 12, 2016, 10:31 PM

Some sense about drugs
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...-chemical-cure

stopdog · Feb 24, 2016, 09:55 AM

Managing clients - seriously - this is how those people talk about clients.
Managing.
Managing resistant clients - Counseling Today

nushi · Mar 04, 2016, 03:02 PM

Thank you so much for this thread. I'm seeking to apply psychotherapy with myself if I don't find a proper psychotherapist to help me cope with mad life. And having a thread that combines all psychotherapy related articles sure helps.

When I find a good article I'll sure share it here

stopdog · Mar 05, 2016, 03:11 PM

CBT

http://www.nocread.com/gopdf/cogniti...a-template.pdf

http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dfresc..._a_Session.pdf

I particularly like the section of the appointment labeled "check in":
Limit the check in to 5 - 10 minutes
• If a significant event has happened, propose it gets added to the agenda and addressed in good time
• A time to chit chat and express warmth and to build the alliance
• Important that the therapist maintain a distinction between check in time and the rest of the session

atisketatasket · Mar 23, 2016, 06:47 PM

“There’s an idea out there that psychological therapy is only helpful. But we think that patients who make choices about engaging in psychological therapy should be given information at the start, which is most people are going to benefit from an intervention, but some people may not.”

Therapy can actually make things worse for some people

stopdog · Mar 26, 2016, 10:00 PM

"One of the most surprising findings was that relatively few participants (23%) reported that their therapists used humor appropriately. Not only was appropriate humor generally absent during the course of therapy, but inappropriate humor was amazingly prevalent, reported by almost 94% of the participants. Participants described some dismaying instances of hurtful jokes and related put-downs. One participant, for example, wrote that her therapist joked about her being suicidal; another described how her therapist belittled her for her fear during a biopsy for her fear during a biopsy for breast cancer. Such findings suggest that graduate training programs might devote more time to exploring the uses and misuses of humor in therapy."

The Therapist As Patient