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What to do with defenses before we have a conscious therapeutic alliance? Enter the prudent landscaper
What do we do when defenses and resistances crop up early on in a session... -
The Universal Wound, Transference Behaviors, and Stepping out of the Shoes
— Transference behaviors here meaning both ‘resistance’ in the narrow sense as well as distorted... -
Portraiting: Considerations of some common issues
Here are a few brief and far from exhaustive reflections for ISTDP-informed therapists interested in... -
ISTDP-informed Couples Therapy
— a Skorman/Kieding amalgamation perspective In couples therapy, you are initially dealing with needing to... -
When supportive therapy is not supportive
Consider the idea of pseudo-contact: the patient who is using the relationship with the therapist... -
Maladaptive interpersonal patterns and ways to intervene
Observations from thousands of hours of both individual and couples therapy sessions: The patient that... -
A relational approach: perceptual flexibility, holding space to not know, (not pre-judging), and the investigative spirit
We are always filtering the data out patients share with us through the lens of... -
Key Take-Aways from over a Decade of Training in ISTDP with Marvin Skorman
Contents: Background The felt sense of connection, the two tiers of mobilization, and openness to... -
The Need for putting the Psyche back in Psychology: The Reality of the Self and the insults of Materialism
In line with Carl Gustav Jung’s reflections on a psychology with or without a psyche,... -
The Dark Underbelly of Psycho-Spiritual Change Models: Dangers and Pitfalls on the path of Personal Growth and Transformation
The inspiration and backdrop for this text I was 19-years-old when I started to take...
