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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 [...]
The Often Missed Emotion Regulation Strategy
First, a brief intro to emotions. Emotions are multi-faceted and full-body experiences whose role encompasses the following: Readying behavioral responses [...]
Curbside Consults: Risks and Solutions
‘Curbside consults’ are informal conversations in which one clinician solicits medical advice about a patient from another clinician. These informal [...]
Openness Towards Patients
Clinician openness towards patients is a multivalent concept with various meanings. From my work with psychiatry residents and other mental [...]