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Posts tagged with 'depression'

Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource - overview of 10 supporting blog posts

14th August 2012

Earlier this year I wrote a sequence of ten blog posts to support people working their way through Mark Williams & Danny Penman's fine book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. I've referred lots of people to these …

Recent research: articles from July journals

9th August 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from June journals

5th July 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from May journals

8th June 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Purpose in life: reduces dementia risk, increases life expectancy, treats depression and builds wellbeing

23rd May 2012

I was struck by a paper published this month in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry - "Effect of purpose in life on the relation between Alzheimer disease pathologic changes on cognitive function in advanced age". The authors wrote "In recent years, systematic examination has shown that purpose in life …

Recent research: articles from April journals

7th May 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,700 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from March journals

7th April 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from February journals

10th March 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (eighth post): internal critic dialogues - practice points

24th February 2012

In the last post on this Emotion-focused therapy workshop series that I wrote, I discussed key background research on using EFT methods to work with people's "internal critics". In today's post, I'd like to be a bit more practical. So initially I note some general advice on how to structure …

Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (seventh post): internal critic dialogues - background research

22nd February 2012

I wrote yesterday about the morning session of this EFT training day in the post "Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions". In the afternoon we explored "Working with self-criticism/depressive splits". As Greenberg & Angus write in their book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy" …