…addiction, from acute anger and insomnia to relationship problems, stress is the cause and the outcome of so many seemingly insurmountable problems. Physically, too, long-term stress – the gnawing sense…
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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”….
6 Easy Behavioural Interventions for Anxiety
Continue reading »…at the root of OCD and of at least some people’s descent into addiction or compulsion as ‘self-medication’. Yes, anxiety is a many-headed hydra. Prefer to watch instead? Anxiety too…
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Continue reading »…with). The addictive nature of OCD An important aspect of OCD not addressed in the DSM classification is how addictive it can be. Just as with an addiction, the OCD…
Story Therapy: Why It Works And How To Do It With Your Clients
Continue reading »…just about every human problem from addiction and depression to divorce and grief. There are plenty of great books on stories and storytelling. Among them I recommend therapist Rob Parkinson’s…
Anchoring: A Vital Therapy Principle
Continue reading »…principle of anchoring can be powerful in addiction, phobias, and PTSD – not to mention superstitions, which can also last lifetimes! Now if an anchor or pattern match installation is…
5 Sensual Ways To Encourage Your Clients To Enjoy Healthy Pleasures
Continue reading »…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…
Does Your Client Psycho-babble?
Continue reading »…switching over to meeting these needs outside the consulting room, so that therapy itself doesn’t become an (expensive) addiction for them. Therapy should be a solution, not part of their…
Should You Use Regression with Your Clients?
Continue reading »…break free of addiction, we help them change their association to the past so that the compulsion disappears. The problematic regression is gone. Likewise, when we help depressed clients ruminate…
No More No Shows
Continue reading »…rid of their panic attacks, phobia, depression, or addiction. Some smokers have looked quite terrified at the prospect of ‘losing part of their identity’, while at the same time knowing…
