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Assess the Situation Rather Than Yourself

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-07-25T18:25:16+00:00July 25th, 2022|Categories: Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: being in the world, complex problems, complex solutions, psychotherapy, self-disappointment, self-judgment, situational awareness|

Reflecting on my many years of working with depressed patients, I’m struck by how many of them felt a great [...]

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Negative Effects of Psychotherapy

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-12-10T14:50:06+00:00December 10th, 2021|Categories: Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: counter-transference, negative outcomes, psychotherapy, therapist malpractice, transference|

How common are positive effects of psychotherapy? Very common, over 95% of patients report positive effects of psychotherapy (Moritz et [...]

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Biggest Reason for Ineffective Psychotherapy

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2021-03-02T15:59:18+00:00March 2nd, 2021|Categories: All, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance vs. change, CBT, DBT, Marsha Linehan, psychotherapy, therapist comportment, treatment failure|

Successful therapy requires balancing two opposing tasks: on the one hand, acceptance of the patient as they are, with their [...]

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Cycles of Communication

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2020-11-03T16:02:56+00:00November 3rd, 2020|Categories: All, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: clinician burnout, clinician irritation with patients, counter-transference, miscommunications, mutual communication, plausible deniability, psychotherapy, therapeutic engagement, therapeutic rupture|

Below I go on at length about an imagined scenario in a restaurant. Directly, it has nothing to do with [...]

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Not Depressed Still Unhappy

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2019-11-20T15:54:27+00:00October 25th, 2019|Categories: All, Career, Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: belonging, community, companionship, Depression, Flourishing, happiness, life well lived, love, meaning, psychotherapy, Purpose, self-worth|

At the recently concluded Oasis Conference – what a joy that was! – in my “Lessons Learned from a Tertiary [...]

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Towards a More Positive Psychiatry

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2019-11-20T16:43:20+00:00June 21st, 2019|Categories: All, Burnout, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance and commitment therapy, adaptive coping, DBT, life worth living, meaning, mental health, Mental illness, new paradigm, patient advocacy, patient empowerment, positive psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, Purpose, resolutions, self-worth, skill training|

I remember when it first struck me with full force that being a patient undergoing a psychiatric interview can seem [...]

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