We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Despite Its Growing Popularity, Some Therapists are Cautious
Chris Lyford
By Chris Lyford - In just a few years, the number of clinics administering ketamine, an anesthetic-turned-antidepressant, has spiked rapidly. After about six ketamine infusions, 70 to 80 percent of participants with treatment-resistant depression no longer experience symptoms, and usually within hours. But despite the hype, some therapists are recommending caution.
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Must Parenthood Bring Down the Curtain on Romance?
Esther Perel
By Esther Perel - Sex makes babies. So it is ironic that the child, the embodiment of the couple's love, so often threatens the very romance that brought that child into being. But the brave and determined couple who maintains an erotic connection is, above all, the couple who values it. They know that it's not children who extinguish the flame of desire: it's adults who fail to keep the spark alive.
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We're Being Smothered in Data. Here's What Therapists Can Do About It.
Margaret Wehrenberg
By Margaret Wehrenberg - Perhaps no endemic workplace condition causes more anguish among employees than the culture of contrived urgency, the ginned-up atmosphere of crisis, in which everything—every project, every report, every meeting—is an urgent priority, superseding all the other urgent priorities before it in the long queue.
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A Story of Vulnerability and Possibility
Lynn Lyons
By Lynn Lyons - Believe me, I like boundaries. My office is attached to the back of my house, and the rules surrounding that are made clear to my clients. But how can I teach my young worriers (and the older ones, too) to relish the uncertainty of human connection if I’m unwilling to connect genuinely with them?
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...While Still Validating Their Pain
Courtney Armstrong
How do you help clients access resourceful states when they’re feeling hopeless and helpless? In this short video, trauma specialist Courtney Armstrong explains.
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A Child-Friendly Approach to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Aureen Pinto Wagner
By Aureen Pinto Wagner - While CBT is widely considered the treatment of choice for children with OCD, effectiveness is contingent on overcoming a formidable obstacle: children's reluctance to engage in exposure therapy because they think that facing their fears without performing rituals will be too scary and impossible. Here's a fun yet effective approach that tackles this problem.
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Five Clinicians Give Their Take
Psychotherapy Networker
Fourteen-year-old client Tyler’s parents brought him to therapy because they say he rarely engages with classmates or teachers, isn’t interested in extracurriculars, and heads straight to his room after school to play video games. They worry he’s depressed, but he’s mostly responsive in therapy and insists he’s happy. Here's how five therapists say they'd proceed.
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A Story of One Woman’s Journey for Help
Diane Cole
By Diane Cole - An OCD sufferer describes the frustrating stops and starts and misdirections of her circuitous search for help in escaping the maze of her family of origin and the deep-seated tropes in her own brain.
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Four Ways to Push Pause on a Verbal Bully
Kate Cohen-Posey
By Kate Cohen-Posey - We live in an age in which using toxic verbiage against others has almost become the norm. Here's how we can help clients deal with these kinds of situations in the moment.
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In Spite of Loss, Learning to Find Joy Where You Can
Lori Gottlieb
By Lori Gottlieb - What do you do when your life’s expectations get turned upside down?
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