We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Let’s Stop Wasting Time
David Schnarch
Conventional therapeutic wisdom aside, people typically don’t hurt each other because they’re out of touch, unable to communicate, or can’t help themselves. All too frequently, they do hurtful things with impunity and entitlement simply to gratify their own needs.
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How the Adult Attachment Interview Became the 'Most Important Development in Attachment Research'
Mary Sykes Wylie and Lynn Turner
When attachment theory was blossoming, it didn’t provide an accompanying toolbox of tactics and techniques, though it did offer a new therapeutic attitude, justifying deep, soul-felt work, which offered a genuinely new beginning towards treatment for adult attachment disorder.
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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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For Clients with Adult Attachment Disorder, Use the Left Hemisphere to Guide You to the Right
Mary Sykes Wylie and Lynn Turner
"People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right-hemisphere processes," says Daniel Siegel, who's probably done as much as anybody in the field to induce therapists to clasp both attachment theory and neuroscience to their collective bosom.
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Attachment-Oriented Therapists Live by Four Strategies for Working Through Attachment Theory and its Associated Disorders
Mary Sykes Wylie and Lynn Turner
Are there any downsides to basing clinical treatment on attachment theory? David Schnarch, a leading advocate of differentiation in the therapy process, believes that attachment theory keeps clients functioning as needy children.
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David Schnarch On How Confrontation Speeds Up Couples Therapy
Rich Simon
Couples therapist, David Schnarch, is not interested in having a couple feel secure in the consulting room.
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Maggie Phillips On The Levels Of Unreleased Trauma
Rich Simon
Pain is usually associated with a currently existing physical injury, which makes helping clients who suffer from chronic pain especially challenging.
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Dan Hughes on the Effectiveness of Psychological Hand-Holding
Rich Simon
Daniel Hughes has many techniques to suggest when working with troubled children who have put up a wall.
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Sue Johnson On Identifying And Healing The Wounds Of Attachment
Rich Simon
Attachment theory has profoundly altered our understanding of how early childhood injuries negatively affect clients throughout their lives. But the theory offers little guidance on how to recognize and address attachment issues underlying other problems.
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