I’m sure you all know that most therapists don’t usually do that much dream exploration any more, despite its prominence in Freud and hence pop culture depictions of therapy ( Read more... )

The Essential Jung. When people tell me Jungian stuff, I love it! And then I attempt actual Jung. Where are they even finding all those cool ideas? All I am seeing is (opening at random) Even though alchemy was essentially more materialistic in its procedures than the dogma, both of them remain at the second, anticipatory stage of the coniunctio, ( Read more... )

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
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But first, a brief health update. The relevant bit for this entry is that while my most recent experimental treatment (rifaximin) had no effect whatsoever, I am still feeling good enough from the combination of the semi-successful sleep experiment (it didn't permanently fix the problem, but it did improve it) and the previous successful ( Read more... )

Sixbeforelunch asked about this. (Yes, month meme answers will spill into next month ( Read more... )

For my own benefit, I am looking for stories of two types of therapy moments ( Read more... )

Asakiyume had a post about romanticism and mental illness with some good discussion in comments ( Read more... )

I just took the MMPI-2. Taking and scoring the thing took so much time that the in-class explanation of what our results meant, plus any non-scoring class discussion of the test, must wait till next week. But for the record, my scores are below. Please feel free to interpret if you happen to know how. I think everything is in the "normal" range ( ( Read more... )

For one of my classes (Queer Counseling and Narrative), I need to write a paper in which I do a "first session" counseling an LGBTQ person or couple, then write up a summary of the full course of therapy ( Read more... )

If I get through all this tonight, I will go eat dinner and watch some Flashpoint. Really dense material below - but interesting.

Summary:- PTSD is largely a matter of conditioned physiological changes, which are very hard to change via insight and introspection alone ( Read more... )