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I’ve written a few times about the dangers of thinking you know what’s wrong with you; see this entry, also this one and this one from the main website.  Here’s a fun moment from a session which shows how this … Continue reading →

It seems astounding to me, although I grant you I’m biased, that people still question whether psychotherapy works.  The data is so compelling.  If you Google the issue you will find plenty of research proving that, yes, it heals. At … Continue reading →

A patient sent me this article, (In case that link doesn’t work, copy this into your browser:  http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-mens-friendships-can-feel-empty-megasahd/).  Take a look especially at the paragraph that begins “Men will ask women to”…  In a couple of sentences there’s a lot of … Continue reading →

Last week I posted an entry in which I pointed out how important it is to bear in mind that you may not know what’s wrong with you.  A recent session provides a good example of this, and of the … Continue reading →

I was recently asked to respond to the following three questions, as part of a guide for new patients seeking – or considering – psychotherapy. 1) What should a patient look for in a therapist? 2) What mistake do most … Continue reading →

In my last entry, Why “get in touch” – 3, I tried to explain in more concrete terms how one goes about psychotherapy, how one gets “in touch”, and what some of the common road blocks are to the process.   … Continue reading →

In the body of this website, I write about the importance of data in psychotherapy.  Data and logic combat the distortions that mess up our lives and bring us to therapy in the first place, and they cut through what … Continue reading →

Despite the century long history of psychotherapy in this country people frequently ask me what happens in a session, how to tell if the process is working.  Here’s an example of a decent session with Simon, someone I wrote about … Continue reading →

In recent entries I wrote about Alice, Jack, and Fred as I tried to answer the question “why get in touch?”  The subject warrants limitless discussion, because it is related to resistance.  And as we know from other blog entries … Continue reading →

In the website I explain resistance in some detail and I encourage you to read that before the rest of this entry.  Resistance is the hardest topic to compress into digestible web pages and thus the one I will probably … Continue reading →