We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
A Client’s Severe Anxiety Disorder May Be a By-Product of a More Primary Purpose
Bruce Ecker
Sometimes panic and anxiety have no function—they aren’t the means of fulfilling a hidden purpose for the sufferer—yet in a different way, they’re still necessary to a coherent underlying pattern.
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Traditional Parenting Rules Often Don’t Apply Anymore, So Parents are Seeking Out New Solutions
Ron Taffel
On top of losing faith in a secure future, mothers and fathers deal with everyday dilemmas that make a joke of traditional parenting rules and childrearing practices.
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Elisha Goldstein on Treating Depression with Self-Compassion
Rich Simon
While the source of physical wounds can usually be easily identified, the cause of emotional wounds are often hidden and hard to recognize, leading many depressed clients to assume they’re responsible for their own pain and therefore their suffering isn’t legitimate.
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When Treating Some Forms of Anxiety, Reenacting a Traumatic Memory May Be the Key
Bruce Ecker
The coherence that underlies panic and severe anxiety disorder has a neurobiologically distinct form: flashbacks of unresolved, unconscious traumatic memory.
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Diane Poole Heller on Bringing the Concrete to the Abstract
Rich Simon
One of the more unique challenges of working with clients who have attachment-based issues is the lack on concrete goals in their treatment.
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Margaret Wehrenberg on Working with Low-Energy Depressed Clients
Rich Simon
The techniques you might employ to help a quiet avoider client dealing with depression won't work with a panicky depressive client, so identifying the type of depression you're working with is imperative.
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Zindel Segal on the Three-Minute Breathing Space
Rich Simon
When thinking about the mindfulness practice of meditation, we usually imagine the ideal situation: a quiet place, ample time to ruminate (anywhere from 40 minutes to several days), and no distractions to disturb the meditation process. Unfortunately, this ideal is rarely a realistic option for most people.
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