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Coming to Terms
From my first days in psychiatry residency, I’ve repeatedly heard about “coming to terms” as a goal of psychotherapy. So, [...]
Addiction: What They Don’t Tell You
Today’s post focuses on what I’ve learned to talk about to patients recovering from addictions. The title of today’s post [...]
Time Window Management
Dogs have a sense of smell that is one thousand to ten million times more acute than humans do. Hawks [...]
Clinician’s Listening
In an earlier post this summer I wrote that the words ‘question’ and ‘quest’ derive from the Latin word ‘quarere,’ [...]
Patients’ Quest
One simple realization I had years ago changed my view of my role as a clinician treating patients with psychiatric [...]
Therapeutic Ruptures and Their Management
The therapeutic alliance is defined as a cooperative working relationship between patient and clinician. The three factors need to establish [...]