American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Negative Effects of Psychotherapy
How common are positive effects of psychotherapy? Very common, over 95% of patients report positive effects of psychotherapy (Moritz et [...]
Biggest Reason for Ineffective Psychotherapy
Successful therapy requires balancing two opposing tasks: on the one hand, acceptance of the patient as they are, with their [...]
Cycles of Communication
Below I go on at length about an imagined scenario in a restaurant. Directly, it has nothing to do with [...]
You Are Not Random
Before a patient walks into your office, you’re just a random mental health clinician the patient got an appointment with. [...]
Not Depressed Still Unhappy
At the recently concluded Oasis Conference – what a joy that was! – in my “Lessons Learned from a Tertiary [...]
Towards a More Positive Psychiatry
I remember when it first struck me with full force that being a patient undergoing a psychiatric interview can seem [...]