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Easy Way to Like Yourself More

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2024-03-12T18:32:05+00:00March 12th, 2024|Categories: Happiness, Health, Patient Stories|Tags: acceptance, adaptive coping, cognitive flexibility, constructed self, distancing, happiness, mental health, multi-mind, persona, resolutions, self-worth, Social self|

A lot of our suffering is self-induced and occurs from our perception of personal shortcomings. It’s easy to be disappointed [...]

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Clinician Humility

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2023-09-08T19:43:16+00:00September 8th, 2023|Categories: All, Career, Patient Stories|Tags: clinician humility, humility, respect for patients|

I was musing while driving this week about how my attitude and approach to patients had changed throughout my clinical [...]

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Advice for a 78-Year-Old Psychiatrist

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-11-18T19:37:14+00:00May 13th, 2022|Categories: Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: dementia, ego integrity versus despair, eudaimonia, facing cognitive decline, isolation, the good life|

Request for Advice “Jack, I’m writing because I ran across one of your LifeBriefs from some time back. In it [...]

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Managing Patients’ Horizons of Concern

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-03-07T19:47:09+00:00March 7th, 2022|Categories: All, Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: horizon of concern, managing despair, managing worry, partial hospital programs|

Sorry for the obscure title of this essay. Once I explain, I hope you’ll agree that what I’m referring to [...]

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Worry. Why it is So Compelling and So Harmful  

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-05-13T20:35:42+00:00March 3rd, 2022|Categories: Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance and commitment therapy, anxiety, CBT, Fear of Chaos, Fear of Death, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, worry ruminations|

We have evolved to survive. One survival strategy that has been selected is based on our capacity to anticipate the [...]

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Should You Give Patients Advice?

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-05-13T20:36:36+00:00January 4th, 2022|Categories: Career, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: choice advice, choice-making, decision-making, giving advice in therapy, process advice|

I received a question about whether clinicians should give advice to patients receiving mental health treatment. This is a frequent [...]

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Negative Effects of Psychotherapy

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-12-10T14:50:06+00:00December 10th, 2021|Categories: Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: counter-transference, negative outcomes, psychotherapy, therapist malpractice, transference|

How common are positive effects of psychotherapy? Very common, over 95% of patients report positive effects of psychotherapy (Moritz et [...]

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Absurd Psychiatric Intervention

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-08-26T16:50:11+00:00August 26th, 2021|Categories: Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: absurdity, acceptance and commitment therapy, ACT, cognitive diffusion, cognitive exposure, deliteralization of language, loss of semantic meaning, semantic satiation|

Today I want to share with you an extremely easy, fast, and effective intervention used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [...]

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