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Clinician’s Listening
In an earlier post, I wrote that the words ‘question’ and ‘quest’ derive from the Latin word ‘quarere,’ meaning to [...]
Worry. Why it is So Compelling and So Harmful
We have evolved to survive. One survival strategy that has been selected is based on our capacity to anticipate the [...]
Patients’ Quest
One simple realization I had years ago changed my view of my role as a clinician treating patients with psychiatric [...]
Acceptance
I’ve recently been trying to make sense of ‘acceptance,’ both the word and the underlying concept. It started to make [...]
Absurd Psychiatric Intervention
Today, I want to share with you an extremely easy, fast, and effective intervention used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [...]
Time and Betrayal
Betrayal. So common. We’ve all probably been on the receiving end and perhaps on the committing end too. And among [...]
Time Window Management
Dogs have a sense of smell that is 1,000 to 10,000,000 times more acute than humans'. Hawks have visual acuity [...]
Addiction: What They Don’t Tell You
Today’s post focuses on what I’ve learned to talk about to patients recovering from addictions. The title of today’s post [...]