American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Manipulation or Good Patient Care
Today I respond to a reader’s request. She writes, “In my residency, we were told to give the patient the [...]
Forever Anxiety
Today I respond to a request for advice. A reader writes, “Jack, I have many patients with high levels of [...]
Cycles of Communication
Below I go on at length about an imagined scenario in a restaurant. Directly, it has nothing to do with [...]
Coming to Terms
From my first days in psychiatry residency, I’ve repeatedly heard about “coming to terms” as a goal of psychotherapy. So, [...]
Clinician’s Listening
In an earlier post this summer I wrote that the words ‘question’ and ‘quest’ derive from the Latin word ‘quarere,’ [...]
Patients’ Quest
One simple realization I had years ago changed my view of my role as a clinician treating patients with psychiatric [...]
Therapeutic Ruptures and Their Management
The therapeutic alliance is defined as a cooperative working relationship between patient and clinician. The three factors need to establish [...]
Teletherapeutic Alliance
Teletherapeutic Alliance is my term for establishing a therapeutic alliance with patients through the medium of telemedicine videoconferencing. One thing [...]