Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
Twice weekly therapy sessions seem more effective than once weekly for depression
20th February 2020
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." (mis) attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer. It's hard to improve psychotherapy outcomes. Typically, different well structured therapies produce very similar outcomes in head to head trials. This makes the …
Recent research: articles from winter/spring journals
21st April 2019
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 well over 27,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …
Recent psychedelic research: lessons from current personal experience - suggestions
29th March 2019
Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle cry of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant I have recently described my experiences taking a couple of (legal) psilocybin trips in the Netherlands - see "Lessons from current personal experience - introduction" and "Lessons from current personal experience - …
Psychotherapy with couples & other close relationships
28th January 2019
Over the next two days I'm due to run a two day training workshop in Glasgow on "Psychotherapy with couples & other close relationships". Here are the downloadable slides for the first day on "Working with couples" (sadly with the cartoons removed for copyright reasons) and here the slides for …
Recent psychedelic research: their use in psychotherapy (2nd post)
20th December 2018
This post is still under construction! This is the third in a series of blog posts about psychedelics. The two earlier posts are "Recent psychedelic research: an introduction" and "Their use in psychotherapy (1st post)", while the five later posts are "Recent psychedelic research: how do they work?", "What are …
Recent psychedelic research: their use in psychotherapy (1st post)
18th December 2018
"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." Nicholas Klein "Those who do not have the power over the …
How can we make psychotherapy supervision more effective?
8th August 2018
All counsellors & psychotherapists in the UK need to have regular supervision if they want to maintain their professional accreditation. A central reason for this is to support therapists in being as helpful as possible for their clients. Unfortunately current approaches to supervision don't seem to do this particularly well. …
Achieving clinical excellence: 1st conference day - Birgit Valla's talk
3rd May 2018
I've already written a couple of posts about this trip to Sweden - "Achieving clinical excellence (ACE): the 'Becoming a more effective practitioner' conference in Sweden" and yesterday's Achieving clinical excellence: pre-conference workshop 'What is FIT? The research behind it and how to do it'". Today is the first full …
Achieving clinical excellence: pre-conference workshop "What is FIT? The research behind it and how to do it"
3rd May 2018
I wrote yesterday about arriving in Sweden. Howevery I'm primarily here for the ACE Conference, so how was yesterday's pre-conference workshop with Scott Miller & Bruce Wampold - "What is FIT, the research behind it and how to do it"? Well, my initial response was one of some disappointment. It …
Achieving clinical excellence: the ACE 'Becoming a more effective practitioner' conference in Sweden
24th April 2018
I'm off to Sweden this weekend, seizing the chance for some 'touristing' in Stockholm before taking a train north to the 'Achieving clinical excellence (ACE)' conference in Ostersund. If becoming a more effective practitioner interests you and you can't get to Sweden this May, then there is plenty of opportunity …