New to Therapy? Let Instinct Be Your Guide
Doing Therapy Well Requires a Certain Kind of Freedom
By Frank Dattilio - Often, therapy trainees in supervision feel more secure approaching every clinical encounter strictly "by the book," and are frequently so afraid of making mistakes that they stifle their own capacity for therapeutic intuition and emotional connection with their clients. Sometimes freeing their therapeutic imagination requires bold steps.
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Cognitive-Behaviorism Comes of Age
Grounding symptomatic treatment in an existential approach
Helping her make a connection between her emotions and the traumatic event was an important milestone for Celeste, because it enabled her to viscerally experience her human vulnerability. This emotional work prepared the way for examining Celeste's schemas, a major intellectual component of contemporary cognitive therapy. Schemas are templates--learned ways of filtering and structuring incoming experience.
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New to Therapy? Let Instinct Be Your Guide
Doing Therapy Well Requires a Certain Kind of Freedom
By Frank Dattilio - Often, therapy trainees in supervision feel more secure approaching every clinical encounter strictly "by the book," and are frequently so afraid of making mistakes that they stifle their own capacity for therapeutic intuition and emotional connection with their clients. Sometimes freeing their therapeutic imagination requires bold steps.
Daily Blog
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Cognitive-Behaviorism Comes of Age
Grounding symptomatic treatment in an existential approach
Helping her make a connection between her emotions and the traumatic event was an important milestone for Celeste, because it enabled her to viscerally experience her human vulnerability. This emotional work prepared the way for examining Celeste's schemas, a major intellectual component of contemporary cognitive therapy. Schemas are templates--learned ways of filtering and structuring incoming experience.
Magazine Article
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Frank Dattilio, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He's on the faculty of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
