Interesting Psychotherapy Articles

Because of this:
" For a therapist, it helps to be able to establish a sense of connection quickly with a wary client or gently disarm a hostile one. It’s great to have that just-right timing and sense of playfulness that gets a sullen teenager to crack a smile, or to say “mmm-hmm” with such a sense of deep rapport that it releases a tightly controlled client to finally let go and cry"

They are doing it at a client to get a reaction.

i did read the rest of it last night, and it did get ridiculous. i take it all back.

May be "they" are doing it for some unhealthy purpose -- one more related to their own needs than to the client's.

May be not.

Considering printing out this article for my therapist, highlighting the most relevant parts, and having him read it while I hide behind the chair.
It was scarily accurate. It was like someone knew my deepest most shameful feelings and secrets and wrote an article about them.

Attachment to Therapist: A Primer

"When children carry distressing neediness day in and day out, in order to manage the constant pain, their mind eventually develops a value system that functions to suppress the constant ache. This system discourages conscious neediness by adopting an internal prohibition against it. “You shouldn’t need attention.” This is effective in pushing the yearning out of awareness, but further fuels its intensity."

"Having these three types of values standing against one’s natural feelings and longings intensifies them greatly and leads to huge amounts of shame. Along with the unfulfilled needs, themselves, these internal defenses form significant part of the difficulty patients bring to therapy."

"Transference refers to times in therapy when the patient’s words and actions reflect the child’s perceptions and methods for solving problems. Usually this is (unconsciously) filtered to make it seem reasonable. For example, the patient might think, “I just want help feeling better.” The feelings surrounding that thought would be more consistent with, “I want you to take away my pain.” Hopefully later, the patient might feel safer and more comfortable and might admit that “I want you to hold me and be there all the time.” That would be a more accurate rendition of the inner child’s true wish."

[QUOTE=LabRat27;6097270]It was scarily accurate. It was like someone knew my deepest most shameful feelings and secrets and wrote an article about them.

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It’s not shameful though. Even if it feels like it.

This article is immensely helpful, thank you so much for posting it!

Thanks for the link to this article. It was a long but very worthwhile read for me.

This guy is so full of himself. What misplaced snobbery:
"They [clients] leave therapy just like they’d leave a supermarket or a hairdresser...."
https://www.pesi.com/blog/details/14...IyMzE4MjgzNQS2
Oh No - Not like A hairdresser - the horror.
Oh those poor misguided clients who don't want to pay a therapist to say they are going to stop therapy or who mistakenly believe they are fine leaving without boosting the therapist's ego and bottom line one last time.
And for the record - hair dressers also consider themselves professionals and my mother's came to her funeral.

I've really been struggling with validating fragments that have come to me of abuse.

I've been trying to understand memory and making sense of it all.

This found me today and I wanted to share it. It really helped me sort some things out.

Memories of childhood sexual assault - why are they different? how can we trust them? - May We Dance on Their Graves

The Sound of Madness

Wow. That was a really interesting read. Thank you, AY.

Thoughts about psychotherapy:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...y-take-so-long

London's famous 'therapy book-store'

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...d-relationship

very interesting article: a feminist perspective on the limits of therapy and how therapy pathologizes very normal behaviours considering the patriarchal society we live in. https://www.feministcurrent.com/2017...nist-activism/

Thanks Myrto,
I really enjoyed this article!
Especially this paragraph makes so much sense.
Despite knowing this, psychology does not exist or function to address these issues and the systemic reasons behind them — the oppression of the poor, racialized, and female, for example. Rather, therapy aims only to address each individual’s emotional reaction to their circumstances. It can make you wonder what good psychology actually does for society at large, and for women, in particular.

Diana Fosha on "trauma is a patient left alone with overwhelming affect" .

Interviews with 100 CBT therapists show that 43% of clients experience unwanted side effects from therapy: Interviews with 100 CBT-therapists reveal 43 per cent of clients experience unwanted side-effects from therapy – Research Digest

When therapists do harm:
When Therapists Do Harm | The Ferentz Institute

Why We Suffer: Psychologists of the world, go deeper

This guy is a complete asshole very caught up in his "authority"
https://www.whywesuffer.com/how-to-r...psychotherapy/

good lord-i couldn’t even make it all the way through the article.

An unexpected possible positive consequence from (moderate) trauma on cognitive processing: For some, experiencing trauma may act as a form of cognitive training that increases their mental control – Research Digest

Negative effects of therapy
http://coping.us/images/Barlow_2010_...cts_of_EBP.pdf

10 ways therapists make clients worse
10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People - Mad In America

How we treat the violently mentally ill -- The Marshall Project: A Turbulent Mind

A clinical psychology professor's take on harmful and iatrogenic effects of therapy:

Potentially Harmful Treatments - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology

I was especially interested in the next to last paragraph and his suggestion that: