Interesting Psychotherapy Articles

Granted, i only read the first few paragraphs before I rolled my eyes, but if my T has ever done this...I have never noticed, and I am pretty attuned to her trying to "therapize" me and I point it out quickly.

Here's something, not an article but aon the concept of Transference.

An article about one person's experience with EMDR
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...3e7_story.html

Our Time Is Up: Ending the Therapeutic Relationship

I really like this one.

Brunch recipes for when your therapist is on vacation

How many of these does the therapist you hire engage in?
10 Ways Manipulators Use Emotional Intelligence for Evil (and How to Fight Back) | Inc.com

Interesting (though not surprising) that you read this as things T's do "at" their clients. I personally haven't noticed my T overtly doing anything like these things...I suppose you could claim they do have "home court advantage," because we come to their office at a specific time and day...but I don't know how we'd get around that. I bet there still are T's who go to people's houses as well.

Hey there buddies

I've just read this so WONDERFUL article that I found in my Bookmarks, I thought I've had it from this thread, but I can't seem to find from which post, or perhaps I got it from someplace else over the internet:

The Illusions of Psychiatry, by Marcia Angell, in The NY Review of Books.

Oh my God, I don't know what to say, every part of this article is a mind blower. The overall image in my mind that I got after finishing it, is how hurtful our situation has become...

Us, mentally ill people, are the most natural people in this world, our brains are "nature's evolutionary response" to the unnatural humanly-manufactured conditions that societies have constructed in our times... Our minds' conditions are nature's rebellion on the human consciousness level against the socially & culturally unnatural & deleterious construction our "un-self-consciousness-regarding masses" of so-called human societies have conditioned to shackle the human mind's free & natural pursuit to find her purpose

Each one of us, as a mentally ill person, has to try to understand his mind's desires, agonies, reflections toward this horrendous world, knowing that she's given a gift that many other humans haven't had... A naturally hightened self-cosciousnessed mind that is rebelling against these destructive settings!!!

And reflecting on this part of the article: "Critics of these books might argue, as Nancy Andreasen implied in her paper on the loss of brain tissue with long-term antipsychotic treatment, that the side effects are the price that must be paid to relieve the suffering caused by mental illness"... Yes! We have to suffer! We have to go through this suffering, because we are the "prophets & messengers" of the Earth's community at this age where it's taking a path toward the demise of our planet, & our humanity! The chaotic & confusing suffering of our minds is the very essence of the Universe Journey, where millions of years of evolutionary chaos always result in the emergence of higher level of Universal complexity... a higher level of a consciousness awareness of existence... Each of us self-consciously enduring this suffering, adapting to it, understanding its purpose will ultimately result in the emergence of a self that is beautifully & wonderfully (as wonderful as the creation of our Universe) enjoying an increased awareness of its purpose... & ultimately guiding others to freely search for their own individual & collective purpose as well

We have to go through this suffering with our rebellious mind that is disgusted at its social surroundings... to understand what it's trying to tell us, & to self-adapt our bodies, knowledge search, & behavior to its needs; not to adapt it to the destructive social settings that the so-called normal (or to better say, people who choose to go & delete their evolutionary gift - their minds) people abide by like zombies!!!

And yes, we have to fight back against the political & financial interests of those horridly diverted institutional settings, that try to silence, or kill our gifted minds, by forcing drugs on us to "lose our brain tissue", labeling us as insane (where our mind's divergent attitudes are the most sane response to our conditions), pressuring us to align ourselves with the flow (that un-self-conscioussnesly work their whole wasted life to increase the wealth & privilege of those elites, enforcing the social, economic, & political constructions that are the very ones that shackle them from freely pursuing their natural human potential!), pressuring us to seek social acceptance, professional prestige...



Indeed, as mentally ill people, we are already equipped with the natural gift to uninstall **** from, not just our, but also others' & the whole community of humans' heads...

A sidenote, my heart is hurting me from what I read in the article about Rebecca, a 4 year old girl who died because she was prescribed a bunch of psychodrugs!!! She's a little innocent sprout who is a martyr of our inhumanely ugly governing systems... She had the mental potential to pursue her free path in our lovely Universe, lovingly affect beings around her, change the world... but she was murdered by our systems We have to always remember her when we think about ourselves & the society around us...

And more on how they manipulate:
https://www.psychotherapy.net/blog/t...-psychotherapy

Clinical Observations About the Potential Benefits and Pitfa... : Harvard Review of Psychiatry

An article about between session contact for BPD

I found this to be a great list to read that was in the comments to this How to Tell If Your Shrink Sucks (And Then Fire Them)

Shouldn’t I Be Feeling Better By Now? Edited by Yvonne Bates. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Mind Games. Robert A. Baker. Prometheus Books, 1996.

The Psychological Society. Martin L. Gross. Random House, 1978.

House of Cards: Psychology and Psychiatry Built on Myth. Robyn Dawes. Free Press,1996.

Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists: The Common Roots of Psychotherapy and Its Future. E. Fuller Torrey. Emerson Hall Publishers; 1st edition (1972)

"The Bait-and-Switch Tactic in Psychotherapy" by Martin H. Williams, in Psychotherapy, 1985, vol. 22, pp. 110-13.

"Fringe Psychotherapies: The Public at Risk" by Barry L. Beyerstein for The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, circa 2002.

Smoke and Mirrors: The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims. Terence W. Campbell. Da Capo Press, 1998.

Psychotherapy: The Purchase of Friendship. William Schofield. A Spectrum book, 1964 (updated in 1986).

Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing. Jeffrey M. Masson. Common Courage Press, 1993 (revised edition, I think the first came out in 1988).

Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People. Tana Dineen. Robert Davies Multimedia Publishing (US),1998.

What Therapists Don’t Talk About and Why: Understanding Taboos that Hurt Us and Our Clients. Pope, Sonne, and Greene. American Psychological Association, 2006.

Therapy’s Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and Exploitation of Today’s Walking Worried. Ofshe and Watters. Scribner, 1999.

Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis. Theodore L. Dorpat. Jason Aronson, 1996.

The Death of Psychotherapy: From Freud to Alien Abductions. Donald A. Eisner. Praeger, 2000.

The Shrinking of America: Myths of Psychological Change. Bernie Zilbergeld. Little, Brown, and Company, 1983.

The Illusion of Psychotherapy. William M. Epstein. Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology. Edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn and Jeffrey M. Mohr. The Guildford Press, 2003.

Demystifying Therapy. Ernesto Spinelli. Constable and Company Ltd, 1994.

Psychotherapy and its Discontents. Edited by Windy Dryden and Colin Feltham. Open University Press, 1992.

Can Psychotherapists Hurt You? Judi Striano. Professional Press, 1988.

aww look at all those articles that go with your thinking

Yes - but the list came from another - we are everywhere.

changed my mind.

Psychotropic drugs cannot alleviate symptoms of mental disorders, say researchers

Study that shows that psychotherapy works better than meds

Ran across this on FB. Read it out of curiosity and it touched me. The video at the end is only 15 minutes long but is very thought provoking. It rendered my heart.

https://www.socialworkhelper.com/201...auma-just-get/

They rate themselves very highly.
https://www.psychotherapy.net/blog/t...wobegon-effect

Why Trauma Survivors May Not Begin Treatment - http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/trau...matic-0106114/

The Shaming Language of Spirituality - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...e-spirituality

Dependency in the Treatment of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder & Dissociative Disorders

Oregon State hospital patients upset over medical data breach by physician

http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/...r-data-breach/