Psychodynamic Diagnostic Process: McWilliams
https://youtu.be/NNvTjWKa5VQ?si=7E7hV6BHgiwyChBN This is a transcript ** of Nancy McWilliams' lecture. I find this invaluable and worthy of repeated hearing. The *Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual*...
Articles on Psychotherapy
Assigned Gender Is Not an Introject: A Gestalt-Theoretic Defense of Gender Disidentification as Creative Adjustment
Rather than viewing gender dysphoria as a pathology, an emerging perspective frames it as a *creative adjustment* — a deeply personal and adaptive response to incongruence between lived experience...
Gestalt Therapy: A Tapestry Woven from Psychoanalysis, Gestalt Psychology, and Field Theory
This passage explores the intellectual milieu of Frankfurt in the 1920s, highlighting the cross-pollination of ideas that significantly influenced the development of Gestalt therapy by Fritz Perls....
Kurt Goldstein's Influence on Fritz Perls Gestalt Therapy
Fritz Perls' arrival in Frankfurt during 1926-1927 marked a pivotal point in his career. At Frankfurt University, a renowned center for social sciences in Germany, Gestalt psychology held significant...
Treatment of Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder (CSBD): A Gestalt Therapy approach
- [Introduction](https://nikhelbig.at/treatment-of-compulsive-sexual-behaviour-disorder-csbd-a-gestalt-therapy-approach/#introduction)- [Definition of Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder...
Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder in Psychotherapy
Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder (CSBD) is also known as hypersexual disorder, and sexual addiction has been included in the World Health Organization's *International Classification of Diseases*...
Hermeneutic circle of understanding
**The [phenomenological attitude](https://nikhelbig.at/the-importance-of-therapists-self-awareness-phenomenological-attitude/) of **putting aside, or bracketing, theories and pre-conceived ideas in...
A mental health horror story — is there truth to this fiction?
This is a story about the **consequence of not understanding the client in the mental health profession. ** It is necessary to emphasize the importance of understanding and the dangers of...
Reich’s Case Examples: Process vs. content in the psychotherapeutic dialogue
Wilhelm Reich, in Character Analysis (1945/1984), illustrates the importance of working on the process of the therapeutic relationship – i.e. what is going on between therapist and client— before...
Power Differences in the Psychotherapeutic Alliance
Although there are different nuances within different psychotherapeutic approaches, the difference in attitude towards the client-therapist power difference can be divided into two very broad groups—...
Breuer & Freud’s pioneering concept of the psychotherapeutic alliance
Psychotherapy in practice differs from many other areas of medicine, particularly with regard to the patient-therapist relationship. It has been observed that Breuer’s work documented by Freud...
Freud and the here-and-now in the therapeutic alliance
The phenomenon of the present moment often termed the here-and-now is the centre of focus in the practice of other psychotherapeutic schools, and in particular gestalt therapy. Referencing back to...
Envy... and Gratitude
This is an excerpt to this video entitled, “Introduction to Kleinian Theory”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb-L_QXNyQU&t I. **Rejection of Death Instinct** - Klein rejects Freud’s Death...
A EMDR Methodology for Working with Trauma
EMDR is a form of psychotherapy originally designed for trauma therapy. EMDR provides a here-and-now stimulus as the client recounts his/her traumatic memories. Tapping or eye movements keeps the...
Couples Therapy: Helping children cope with parents' separation and divorce
Children do suffer much when parents separate or divorce. Read how couples therapy can help reduce the emotional stress and confusion in children who have to face their parents separation....
Coming off Psychiatric Medications
I have moved this article to another site: [Here](https://psychotherapist.sg/f/weaning-off-psychiatric-medications) https://youtu.be/O4bdG601k4k?t=214 [Download Will Hall's free booklet on coming...
Maté: Denial of own emotional needs and its connection to chronic illness
Do unto yourself, what you would do for others.
Nicotine Addiction: the bio-psycho-social viewpoint of the smoking habit
This article is a reflection on the lecture series on the topic of addiction. The focus here is that of nicotine addiction. # Why Smoking? Nicotine addiction seems less serious to law enforcers...
Going through Crisis, Dealing with Crisis
This article discusses what is means to experience crisis and dealing with crisis. The word, "crisis" has its Greek origin, *krinein, *which means, "to judge". In Chinese, the word for crisis is 危機--...
Panic disorder and loneliness
Panic disorders are sensed as physical symptoms. Often the root cause of these symptoms are not initially known to the person experiencing these attacks . This "not knowing" makes the physical...
Experiences of Grief after a Loss of a Loved Person
What does a person go through when he/she loses a very dear person? This person could be a parent, spouse, child, friend or even pet. Every person's experience is unique, because every relationship...
Notes: The Other as Extended Self vs. I-Thou. Bakhtin and Buber.
The *I-position *does not limit itself to the internal domain of the self. e.g. I am a piano player, I as a father. We extend our selves into society through (what looks like our roles) "my father",...
Bion: The Function of Myths in Groups
A group is not an aggregate of individuals. It's a body that has a mental state and creates a phantasy. * The group produces its own mythology. When the group work is focused on primary...
Notes: Bakhtin's Polyphonic Novel and the Dialogical Self
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Book Review : Wilhelm Reich's Character Analysis
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Sigmund Freud: On Dreams in Psychotherapy
This lecture is an interesting source on Freud on Dreams. In the second half of this article, I summarize straight forwardly Freud's *The Interpretation of Dreams,* published in 1900. * ### ###...
Otto Kernberg: Transference Analysis in Psychotherapy
This is a summary of Otto Kernberg's lecture on Transference Analysis. Transference is an important term in psychodynamic therapies, and even dialogic therapies like Gestalt...