…hedonistic, to do nothing but selfishly seek sensual pleasures is a dead end, a seemingly infinitely-rich-in-promise road leading inexorably to a cul-de-sac of addiction, disillusionment, chaos, infantilisation, fractured relationships and…
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How to Help Your Client Overcome Fear of Rejection
Continue reading »…three: Teach self-kindness Externalizing a self-sabotaging emotional pattern, be it anger, jealousy, depression, or addiction, is a vital part of any therapist’s skill set. Ella showed maladaptive perfectionist tendencies. Perfectionists…
How to Use Problem-Solving Therapy with Your Clients
Continue reading »…locking of attention, and difficulty withdrawing it, in addiction, obsession, and, of course, depression. Sometimes, this kind of locked attention on problems can prove to be worse than the problems…
4 Effective Therapy Techniques For Treating OCD
Continue reading »…watch instead? But like all repetitive behaviours, the compulsion may start to function like any other addiction. The OCD sufferer may feel they have to do increasingly more of their…
A Brief History of Psychotherapy
Continue reading »…gastric catarrh, indigestion, severe vomiting, and morphine addiction. (Freud believed cocaine to be non-addictive.) He commented on the “gorgeous excitement” that animals displayed after being injected with the “magical substance”….
Trauma Treatment: Why PTSD & Phobias Are A Case Of Bad Hypnosis
Continue reading »…in a state of trance. Click to Tweet Bad hypnosis = bad (but very effective) learning The negative emotional states of depression, anger, addiction and fear are all hypnotic. They…
Set Your Clients Free From the Prison of Their Negative Beliefs
Continue reading »…to continue to learn…just a bit more! I suspect it could turn into an addiction! Furthermore, being delivered in various formats, i.e. audios, reading as well as in short videos,…
How A Clever Little Boy Can Help You Help People Quit Smoking
Continue reading »Sometimes when you talk about quitting smoking to a smoker, you see a look of terror (or defiance!) flit across their features – even if they have explicitly…
How to Use Psychoeducation With Your Clients
Continue reading »…wellbeing can be restored. We might describe how an addiction can be seen as a kind of hijacking of the brain’s capacity to learn and develop (as I describe here),…
Therapeutic First Aid: Step 1
Continue reading »…their needs, and they try to ameliorate that stress through the escapism of addiction (2). People develop panic attacks when they’re generally stressed. Emotional problems are caused by stress, but…