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The Acronymization of Psychotherapy and Mental Illness

Posted by Lawrence Rubin, PhD, ABPP on 6/6/18 - 4:52 PM

DBT, ACT, CCPT, ADHD and BPD instantly evoke a complete understanding of their parent constructs...or do they?! Perhaps psychotherapy and psychdiagnostics have been trivialized and commodified in the name of catchy acronyms and intialisms.

Imagine You Are a Smart Phone

Posted by Dan Williams, MA, JD

How To Help Your Clients Undo What They Haven't Yet Done

Posted by Christian Conte, PhD

Countertransference in the Rearview Mirror May Be Closer Than it Appears

Posted by Lawrence Rubin, PhD, ABPP

Superheroes in Psychotherapy?

Posted by Lawrence Rubin, PhD, ABPP on 4/27/18 - 11:54 AM

Superheroes are far more than two-dimensional fantasy heroes who model impossible standards for us to achieve. They are – despite alien origin, profound trauma and inevitable estrangement – very much human, and as such like the rest of us in need of connection, meaning and inner peace.

The $5 Snake Phobia Cure

Posted by Victor Yalom, PhD

O Psychotherapy, Where Art Thou?

Posted by Howard Rosenthal, EdD

The Power of Naming

Posted by Richard Makover, MD

Reflections on Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017

Posted by Victor Yalom, PhD on 2/2/18 - 10:25 AM

Hard to believe, but it’s been 22 years since I set up a small booth at The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in 1995 in Las Vegas, peddling my first videotape (yes, VHS) Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy in Action featuring James Bugental, a teacher of mine who happened to be one of the presenters. At that time the Evolution folks (namely Jeff Zeig, director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, which puts on the conferences) was kind enough to contact the other faculty...

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