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The Lying Artist

Posted by Catherine Ambrose, LCSW on 4/16/13 - 7:15 PM

Once upon a time and many years ago when I was a very new therapist, I worked with a client who had completely made herself up. A lot of things never added up with her. For starters, there was her presenting problem. Some days she would report a diet of jelly beans (not many) and carrots, and yet she was never low weight. But since clients with eating disorders are so often metabolically out of sync, it didn’t seem completely unbelievable...

The Therapist and the Fee: Why Everything Works out and Also Doesn’t

Posted by Simon Yisrael Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW

Self-Care for Therapists

Posted by Elizabeth Sullivan, MFT

Psychoanalysis is Alive and Well

Posted by Kim Chernin, PhD

Vanquishing the Inner Critic

Posted by Pete Walker, MFT on 3/19/13 - 4:37 PM

In my work with clients who were severely traumatized in childhood, I sometimes feel hopeless in helping them to address and deconstruct their inner critics. I feel daunted by the viciousness and incessancy of their self-attack. When a child is relentlessly rejected by contemptuous parents, she mimics them and learns to obsessively scorn herself. Like them, she focuses only on her defects and deficiencies; like them she radiates hate and scorn at herself. Her superego grows into an outsized critic as...

Through the Anger Looking Glass

Posted by John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD

When East Doesn't Meet West: Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Posted by Kim Chernin, PhD

The "L" Word

Posted by Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

Seeing Medusa in Every Client

Posted by Christian Conte, PhD on 1/15/13 - 1:38 PM

In Greek traditions, Medusa is the notorious stone-cold killer who was well known for turning people into statues. Her reputation became so brutal that she was often depicted as evil itself. However, like everyone who eventually comes to hurt others, Medusa had a life before she was the snake-haired statue-maker, but few seem to remember that. This is that story: Medusa was a stunningly beautiful young woman. She was so striking, in fact, that everyone around her pursued her and longed...

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