Posts tagged with 'narration'
Emotion-focused and narrative therapies
3rd June 2013
"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts." Salman Rushdie Tomorrow our little East of …
Our minds work associatively: this is of central importance for psychotherapy and for life in general
24th December 2012
(this post is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc) In his brilliant book "Thinking, fast and slow" published last year, the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman says his aim is to help improve our "ability to identify and understand errors of judgement and choice ... …
Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": links with trauma-focused CBT and Marylene Cloitre's work on complex PTSD
17th November 2012
I've written a couple of recent blog posts - "Arntz & Jacob's new book 'Schema therapy in practice': some introductory comments" and "Arntz & Jacob's new book 'Schema therapy in practice': links with attachment theory and with therapies for self-compassion". In today's post I want to look at ST's focus …
Written exposure therapy: how do you do it?
27th October 2012
(This post on "Written exposure therapy" is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. James Hollingworth In yesterday's post - "One of the most exciting therapeutic writing …
One of the most exciting therapeutic writing studies for years
25th October 2012
Denise Sloan, associate director at the US National Center for PTSD, has produced many fine publications on therapeutic writing. However I think she has surpassed herself with her most recent: Sloan, D. M., B. P. Marx, et al. (2012). "Written exposure as an intervention for PTSD: A randomized clinical trial …
Leeds BABCP conference: therapeutic metaphors & stories (6th post)
2nd July 2012
I have already written about the pre-conference workshop I attended (on Fatigue) and the the first full day of the conference proper. Today's post looks at the second day of this annual BABCP get-together. As is true for all three days of the full conference, there are typically 15 or …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (4th post): facilitating narrative change processes
3rd April 2012
I have been writing about Lynne Angus & Les Greenberg's book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". So far, I have put up three posts "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy (1st post): context", "Narrative ... (2nd post): narrative types & modes" and "Narrative ... (3rd post): narrative …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (3rd post): narrative modes & phases
26th March 2012
In the last post in this sequence "Angus & Greenberg's book ... (2nd post): narrative types & modes", I began exploring Angus & Greenberg's recent book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". I talked about their model of "three narrative types" (external, internal & reflexive) and …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (2nd post): narrative types & modes
25th March 2012
I wrote yesterday on "Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (1st post): context". In today's post I would like to start scanning through the contents of Angus & Greenberg's 2011 book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". It's a short book, less than 150 …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (1st post): context
24th March 2012
I was due to go through to Glasgow today for the fifth workshop in this seven seminar emotion-focused therapy (EFT) series. Sadly my back has been playing up ... as it occasionally does ... and it really doesn't make good sense to travel. The soreness is getting better nicely, but …