American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Assess the Situation Rather Than Yourself
Reflecting on my many years of working with depressed patients, I’m struck by how many of them felt a great [...]
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 [...]