RELIEF OF SUFFERING: OUR FUNDAMENTAL THERAPEUTIC VOCATION
Pauline Pytka MD, FRCPC Medical care in general, and psychiatry specifically, has shifted from the principle of easing suffering to specific ‘approaches’ to the diagnosis and treatment of illness. It is easy to forget that we are r..
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PSYCHODYNAMIC EMOTION FOCUSED THERAPIES: THE NEXT PSYCHIATRIC FRONTIER
ALAN EPPEL MB, FRCPC Due to the increasing recognition among psychiatrists of the constraints of psychopharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders, there has been an intensified interest in psychotherapies. Current research is focused o..
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PSYCHOTHERAPY: TOO EXPENSIVE NOT TO PROVIDE
SUSAN MCNAIR MD, FRCPC I have a patient in my practice that I have being seeing weekly for several months. Together we work through problems he has had in the past week, with coworkers or family members or with his mood. He is incr..
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THE NEED FOR FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
Gabor I Keitner M.D. Professor Department of Psychiatry Brown University, Providence, RI There are many reasons why psychiatrists do not assess or treat families. Meeting with families is often perceived as not being cost effective given..
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Attachment and loss: Matters of life and death
By Alan Eppel Posted with permission from New Therapist issue no.84 March-April 2013 The interplay of love and loss is the central dynamic in the human story. The longing for love and the pain of its loss are the most deeply felt of hum..
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Dynamic Psychotherapy Meta-analyses
This month we include two recent meta-analyses of short-term dynamic psychotherapies. The first comes from a group based in Stockholm Sweden reporting on the efficacy of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapies- EDT. EDTs operate within the..
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It’s Not Always Depression: Sometimes It’s Shame
Vol 3 #5 By Hilary Jacobs Hendel (Originally published in the New York Times on March 10, 2015. Published in this Journal with the author’s permission). How can it be that a seemingly depressed person, one who shows clinical symptoms, do..
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Book Review Hilary Jacobs Hendel: Its Not Always Depression
Vol 3 #5 It’s Not Always Depression– Working The Change Triangle To Listen To The Body, Discover Core Emotions, And Connect To Your Authentic Self Hilary Jacobs Hendel BA, MSW, DDS, LCSW Spiegel & Grau New York. Pages 298. ..
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The Social Role of Psychotherapy in the 21st Century in Preventing and Responding To Sexual Misconduct: A Multidimensional Perspective
Vol 4 #1 Authors: Caroline Giroux MD*, Ana Hategan MD, Alan Eppel MB * Corresponding author: Associate Clinical Professor; [email protected] Affiliations: University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA McMast..
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Personal Recollections of Donald Winnicott
Vol 5 # 3 Barbara Barnett MPhil Barbara Barnett was educated at the London School of Economics. She completed her studies in Social Work and worked in the Child Welfare Services in England after the Second World War. She rece..
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