psychotherapy

Psychological Treatments: A Call for Mental-Health Science

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From Nature back in July, 2014, this is a call for more interdisciplinary sharing between neuroscientists and counselors/psychologists. There is often, in my experience, very little cross-pollination of ideas between the objective science and the interpersonal/intersubjective space of treatment. Reference:Nature 511, 287–289 (17 July 2014)doi:10.1038/511287a Psychological treatments: A call for mental-health science  Emily A. Holmes, … Read more

How Psychedelic Drugs Could Revolutionize American Medicine

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Here are two articles that look at the use of psychedelics in psychotherapy. The first was posted last week at Salon, a reprint from the original post at Scientific American. The second one comes from Utne Reader back in 2013, and it was reprinted from Spirituality and Health. Before these drugs became were banned as … Read more

Radhika Santhanam-Martin – Othering Spaces: Uses of Alterity in Psychotherapy Training and Practice

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  “A hermeneutic approach … sees interpretation emerging from the shared search for understanding. Unless jointly authored, it is really misinterpretation and misunderstanding. In other words, understandings are not conveyed from one mind into another but emerge from conversation and are thus felt as truthful.” ~ Donna Orange, The Suffering Stranger – The Divine Conspiracy, … Read more

Reflecting on the 50th Anniversary of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"

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Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia (2013), and in this article for The New Republic she takes a look back at 50 years since the publication of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, written by Joanne Greenberg. One of the issues raised about the book since it … Read more

George Atwood – The Abyss of Madness

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[NOTE: I originally posted this in August of 2012. However, I am seeing clients who would fall into the definition Atwood uses for “madness.”] I am reading George Atwood’s The Abyss of Madness (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series) (2011) as part of an intersubjective, relational psychoanalytic study group I have been a part of for the last … Read more