Posts Tagged ‘psychotherapy’

Working at Relational Depth

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 | Books

Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a book by Dave Mearns and Mick Cooper that expands on Rogerian concepts of relational meeting and describes the idea of relational depth: a profound meeting on contact in the therapeutic relationship.

The author argue that relationship depth goes beyond the surface level of professional caring. They suggest that professional boundaries, while important, get in the way of really being with your clients in the encounter. Instead, they suggest we should allow ourselves to truly care for our clients and bringer a greater level of honesty, openness and immediacy into the room.

Love’s Executioner

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 | Books

Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy is a book by Irvin Yalom. It presents ten cases from his work as a psychiatrist in story form.

By story form, I mean it is written as a narrative. Each case is based on a real client and their real story, but many of the details have been changed to protect their identities. Yalom writes in a compelling way that attempt to teach psychologists something but has also earned the book a great deal of popularity with the general public and would be highly accessible to everyone who wants to read some interesting stories.

None more so than the story from which the book takes its title, Love’s Executioner, which almost reads like a thrilling Agatha Christie mystery. For me, none of the other stories quite matched the first but each was interesting and I was excited to pick up the book each time.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy course

Tuesday, August 17th, 2021 | News

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a form of cognitive behavioural therapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness to treat borderline personality disorder, suicidal behaviour and a range of other challenging conditions.

My new course will teach you all about it. Get access to all of my psychology courses via Holbeck College or preview the course on Udemy.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy course

Monday, July 5th, 2021 | News

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of cognitive behavioural therapy that uses mindfulness and acceptance to help people change their lives. My new course introduces all of the key concepts, theory and techniques use in ACT.

You can get access to all of my psychology courses at Holbeck College or preview the course on Udemy. Or watch the video below.

Family Therapy: 100 Key Points & Techniques

Monday, March 15th, 2021 | Books

Family Therapy: 100 Key Points & Techniques is a book by Eddy Street and Mark Rivett on practising family therapy.

Rather than being a therapy for families (although it is also this), family therapy is a modality of psychotherapy in itself that involves multiple members of a family. While there are individual schools that focus on narrative or other areas of focus, most of the theory revolves around systems and is also referred to as systematic therapy.

These systems allow us to take in a wider view of the issue. For example, a child may be misbehaving, which can be addressed by itself but is better addressed by understanding that this is a cry for attention when the parents are arguing. And that by addressing the problems with the systems, the result of the problems will resolve themselves.

As you may guess from the title, the book is broken down into 100 short sections of a couple of pages. Each one looks at a particular issue, technique or discussion inside family therapy. It follows a rough structure rather than jumping around too much, so can still serve as an introduction to family therapy.