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We have a passion for the personal way that psychotherapy changes lives. In therapy we help people to feel differently.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“I believe a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each patient has a different story.”

Irvin Yalom

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

Thread on the confusingly many diff kinds of therapy and what we should do about it:

The public must be very confused about what they will experience when they see a psychotherapist. They hear many acronyms and names: EMDR, ACT, AEDP, EFT, DBT, CBT, Rogerian, etc. It takes...

[ThoughtSupport @4ThoughtSupport]

@JonathanShedler Agreed. Pls what about the patient who refuses to forgive them-self influenced by false-belief that they ought to have been able to have act differently/defiantly in the face of very bad parents? “I should have known better” severely punitive towards self…thought/references?🙏

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

2/
-greater capacity for both self-reflection & understanding of others' experience
-increased comfort in functioning independently & functioning communality
-more robust sense of vitality
-improved capacity for acceptance, forgiveness,
gratitude
(adapted from Nancy McWilliams)

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

1/ Ten “vital signs” of psychotherapy progress:

-greater attachment security / sense of safety
-more coherent/integrated experience of self & others
-increased sense of personal agency
-more realistic & reliable self-esteem
-greater resilience / improved affect regulation

[Zoe Daniel (she/her) @zdaniel]

Dear people of Melbourne, if you have the means and can find a reason please go into the city and have a meal, drink, coffee, shop. Our beautiful city is so empty. Be safe, but please help bring it back to life.

[𝒮𝒶𝓂 𝐿𝒾𝑒𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒽 @LieblichSam]

Frontal lobotomy was an evidence based treatment in its day.

[Psychotherapy Networker @pnetworker]

"We should strive to be first-class psychologists, not second-class MDs. Our message shouldn't be psychology is like medicine. It should be psychotherapy is like psychotherapy, and we should be telling the world what meaningful therapy is: @JonathanShedler https://t.co/H0oNJofWu2

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

Also see "Saving Talk Therapy" by Enrico Gnaulati
https://t.co/Ei4cUDYhKJ

[ThoughtSupport @4ThoughtSupport]

“The fact that there is medical treatment available for depression involving the use of drugs, just as there is for cancer, does not itself prove that the former is a disease — let alone one that is comparable to cancer.”

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

"What is to be gained by grouping together such diverse phenomena as stress and schizophrenia and labelling them all 'mental health'—or rather 'mental health problems?'"
https://t.co/dSITfI6Adh

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

"What is to be gained by grouping together such diverse phenomena as stress and schizophrenia and labelling them all 'mental health'—or rather 'mental health problems?'"
https://t.co/dSITfI6Adh

[ThoughtSupport @4ThoughtSupport]

Thoughts for this weekend...

[Magnolia Psychotherapy @fejrobinson]

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest human battle ever" E E Cummings

Hope your weekend was filled with spirit, expressing you as you truly are.

#weekend #inspiration

[The Nimitz Group @nimitzgroup]

Tune in to this jaw-dropping interview as we search for the evidence behind VA's go-to mental health treatments with @JonathanShedler.
🔗https://t.co/ZlTiKN2SZb🔗

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

1/ These distinctive features of psychoanalytic therapy came from a presentation I just gave. I will unpack them here.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

New scientific breakthrough in top med journal based on excruciatingly complex mixed-methods analysis* of 73 studies: Patients connect better when their doctors treat them like they matter.
Next: complex statistics will find icebergs were bad for Titanic
https://t.co/JHqDg002y6

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

In our role as psychotherapists there's nothing to balance. The work is about the patient, period. It's about understanding the sources & meanings of the *patient's* difficulties & NOTHING ELSE. It's not about us. Our politics/ideologies have no place in clinical consulting room.

[Dr Allan Abbass 🇨🇦 @ISTDP]

Podcast on unconscious anxiety and emotions in the body. https://t.co/1q69WLS5nG

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

1/5 The goal of psychotherapy is to insert spaces for reflection where they have not previously existed and thereby create opportunities to know ourselves more fully, connect with others more deeply, and live life more congruently.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

No way in hell would I look for psychiatrist or any other m.h. professional by asking insurance company or by looking on PsychToday.
Health insurer doesn't care if you get good psychiatric care, only that they pay as little as possible.
PsychToday is equivalent of a dating app.

[Dr Allan Abbass 🇨🇦 @ISTDP]

Pleased to be awarded a research grant to study the psychological effects of quarantine on individuals and couples.