There is no simple answer to the question “what is psychotherapy?” Hence in the first page of this website, I present the related topics of psychotherapy to show the work in its immensity.
Some of these articles are full articles, though many remain sketched notes.
Posts by category
- Category: Addiction
- Category: Art
- Category: Articles on Psychotherapy
- Hermeneutic circle of understanding
- A mental health horror story — is there truth to this fiction?
- Breuer & Freud’s pioneering concept of the psychotherapeutic alliance
- Power Differences in the Psychotherapeutic Alliance
- Reich’s Case Examples: Process vs. content in the psychotherapeutic dialogue
- Freud and the here-and-now in the therapeutic alliance
- Envy… and Gratitude
- The Importance of Self-awareness & Phenomenological Attitude for Practitioners
- A EMDR Methodology for Working with Trauma
- Couples Therapy: Helping children cope with parents’ separation and divorce
- Symptoms of Anxiety and Panic Disorders in the Context of the World We Live in
- Coming off Psychiatric Medications
- Going through Crisis, Dealing with Crisis
- How emotional writing can improve your mood — and health
- Panic disorder and loneliness
- Surviving the Corporate Work Environment Mentally
- Sigmund Freud: On Dreams in Psychotherapy
- Otto Kernberg: Transference Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Category: Articles on Psychotherapy Practice
- How does Psychotherapy Work? General Systems Theory and Synchronization
- The change moments in psychotherapeutic practice
- Empathy and Buber’s I-thou contact
- What’s behind the transforming power of dialogue?
- Healing through dialogue is an eminently hermeneutical phenomenon indeed
- Unconscious feelings and countertransference within the Therapeutic Alliance
- What lies within the therapist-client alliance in Psychotherapy?
- Contact & inter-subjectivity: the definition of the self in the therapeutic relationship
- Levels in a psychotherapeutic relationship
- Psychotherapy: The Active Ingredient Is The Transpersonal Therapeutic Relationship
- What do Gestalt Therapists do?
- A Sense of an Ending
- Why body-awareness is integral to the psychotherapeutic process
- Obesity in adults and its possible link to experiences of childhood abuse
- Short Definitions of Relatedness and Relationship
- Endings: Termination of therapy
- Is psychotherapy for me?
- How a therapist can tell the progress of the patient
- Psychotherapy is Healing through the Psyche
- What does “healing” mean in Psychotherapy?
- Anorexia & Eating Disorders in Children: What Parents and Family can do
- Dreams and Dreamwork in Psychotherapy
- Different Facets of Countertransference
- Hoarding Disorder
- Psychotherapy for Cardiac Patients?
- Humiliation, Shame and Violence
- The Neuroscience of Language Explains How and Why Psychotherapy Cures
- When to Engage the Services of a Psychotherapist
- Kernberg: Working with the Antisocial and Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder Spectrum
- Psychotherapy is about Uncovering Truths of the Self
- Symptom Relief in Psychotherapy
- What can Psychotherapy do for you?
- Former patients’ conceptions of successful psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy expertise in Singapore: A qualitative investigation
- Projective Identification
- Gestalt Therapy Case-Study: From procrastination to recalling a story in a novel
- An Entrepreneur in Therapy: Case study by Kets de Vries
- Who is Psychotherapy for?
- Category: Childhood Trauma & Complex Trauma
- Gabor Mate explains Sensitivity, Creativity and Pain in a Traumatizing Culture: dialogue with Sia
- Trauma: Symptoms of Dissociation and Treatment
- Psychological Trauma: Types and Symptoms
- A EMDR Methodology for Working with Trauma
- Complex Trauma: 12 basic concepts of somatic experiencing in healing Trauma
- Self Harm & Emotional Pain
- The differences between traumatic memories and non-traumatic memories
- Langberg: Understanding Complex Childhood Trauma and Treatment
- Watch “Complex Trauma: Developmental & Neurobiological Impact with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk” on YouTube
- CPTSD: Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Child Abuse
- Differentiating Symptoms of PTSD from Trauma-Associated Narcissistic Symptoms
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Category: Cultural and Historical Perspective of Psychotherapy
- Francesetti: Gestalt Therapy, an Engine of Change.
- Ellenberger: THE PATHOGENIC SECRET AND ITS THERAPEUTICS
- Fruehauf: Wang Fengyi’s Emotional Healing in Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Psychotherapy Case Studies of the 18th Century: Das Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde
- Pinel 1754-1826 on Treatment of Illness from “Moral Causes”
- Category: Diagnosis
- Introducing the Aesthetic Turn in the field of Psychotherapy
- Differentiation between the Healthy Process of Grief and Depression
- Mental Illness: DSM definition of what is mental disorder is and what isn’t
- Difference between Hoarding and Normative Collecting Behaviors
- Narrative Impoverishment in Schizophrenia: Lysaker & Lysaker
- Psychomatics: Binge Eating Disorder
- What is Psychosomatics?
- Adjustment Disorders: Causes and Symptoms
- What is Dissociation?
- Differentiating Symptoms of PTSD from Trauma-Associated Narcissistic Symptoms
- How to Ask a Patient about Childhood Trauma History: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
- How do we classify mental diseases?
- Category: Family, Couples and Systemic Therapy
- Couples Therapy: Helping children cope with parents’ separation and divorce
- Bob and Rita Resnick: Gestalt Couples Therapy
- Couples Therapy: Marriage Counseling Approach
- Scapegoating in Groups and Families
- Anorexia & Eating Disorders in Children: What Parents and Family can do
- Brief Therapy Interview Strategies
- Kabat-Zinn Quote on Responsibility of Parents
- Category: General Psychology
- Category: Gestalt Therapy
- Francesetti: Gestalt Therapy, an Engine of Change.
- Treatment of Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder (CSBD): A Gestalt Therapy approach
- Gestalt Therapy: The Paradoxical Theory of Change
- Bob Resnick – Gestalt Therapy And Homeostasis: Evolution – With Movement, Discrimination And Grace
- Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (Perls, 1969): Book Review
- Fritz Perls: What is Gestalt? 1970 Video
- The Fertile Void, Creative Indifference & Gestalt Psychotherapy
- Short Definitions of Relatedness and Relationship
- Notes on Field Theory in Gestalt Therapy
- Diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality from the Gestalt Therapy Perspective
- Resnick: Gestalt Therapy Principles in Today’s Context
- Gestalt Therapy is about Action and not Simply Talk
- Levels of Gestalt Therapy Treatment Methods
- Integrating Kernberg’s Model of Personality Organization with Gestalt Therapy
- Illustration: The Dialogical Self and Contact Cycle
- Fritz Perls: Quotes on Therapy in Groups
- Gestalt Theory: 5 Phases of Therapeutic Change
- Fritz Perls: Working with Dreams in Gestalt Therapy
- How Bobby Mcferrin explains Gestalt Theory with this Act
- Category: Gestalt Therapy Books
- Category: Group Therapy
- Category: Health Biochemistry & Physiology
- Category: Leadership
- Category: Lectures
- Glen Gabbard: “The Difficult Patient”
- Gabor Mate explains Sensitivity, Creativity and Pain in a Traumatizing Culture: dialogue with Sia
- Notes: Sapolsky on Chaos and Reductionism
- Sapolsky: The Biological and Psychological Link to Major Depression
- Christopher Bollas on Mental Pain
- Bollas: Psycho-Pharmaceutical use, like war, can impair empathic feelings.
- Projective Identification
- Otto Kernberg: On Narcissism
- Heinz Kohut: Selfobject
- Jane Tangney: the Difference between Shame and Guilt
- Daniel Schiff PhD: Contemporary Reichian Therapy
- Category: My THESES & PUBLICATIONS
- Therapeutic Autoethnography
- Geštalt Zbornik 9: Understanding Salomo Friedlaender’s Creative Indifference
- EUJPC 1 (16): A psychotherapist’s lived experience in-session with an asylum seeker and translator
- The British Gestalt Journal 31(1): Writing evocative case studies
- The British Gestalt Journal 28(2): Dialogue analysis of a filmed Gestalt therapy session
- Analyzing a Gestalt Psychotherapy Session Using the Helbig Method of Dialogue Analysis (HELDA)
- The Psychotherapeutic Alliance and Change: A discussion on the healing aspects in a psychotherapeutic relationship
- Category: Neuroscience
- Neuroscience: Psychotherapy is more Lasting than Psychiatric Drugs for Treatment of Depression
- Why there is no single drug for Fear, Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety and PTSD
- Neuroscience: Basic Emotions
- Notes: Neuroscience Models of Schizophrenia
- The Neuroscience of Language Explains How and Why Psychotherapy Cures
- Neuroscience: Why we cannot explain psychopathology based only on genes
- Neuroscience: Brain Centers and Function
- Mental States: from the Neuroscientists’ Viewpoint
- Carhart-Harris: Neuroscience and Freudian Concepts
- Presentation: Psychedelics and Psychotherapy
- Notes: A Study Using Psychotherapy and fMRI Neuroimaging
- Category: Organizational Development
- Category: Papers
- Category: Personality
- Category: Poetry
- Category: Psychoanalysis
- Carveth: Transference & Countertransference
- Freud and Fiction: The Psychological Thinking about Literature
- Kernberg Model of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- The Manic Need to Control : Kleinian Theory
- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position
- Making Reparation & Mourning as the Road to Mental Healing
- Mourning and Making Reparation through Art
- Bollas: Transformational Object
- Personality vs Personality Disorders
- Category: Psychological Tests
- Category: Psychotherapy Case Studies
- Psychotherapy is Healing through the Psyche
- Psychomatics: Binge Eating Disorder
- Case Study: Longing for Acceptance from Birth Father
- Case Study: A Car Thief and his Parents
- Making Reparation & Mourning as the Road to Mental Healing
- Gestalt Therapy Case-Study: From procrastination to recalling a story in a novel
- An Entrepreneur in Therapy: Case study by Kets de Vries
- Category: Psychotherapy Research
- Introducing the Aesthetic Turn in the field of Psychotherapy
- Therapeutic Autoethnography: A Research Method for Psychotherapy
- 3 Approaches to Psychotherapy: A Quick Comparison of the Gloria Tapes
- Research: Rupture Resolution Rating System (3RS)
- Research: Treatment Adherence & Treatment Differentiation
- Research: Definition of Psychotherapy Process and Outcome in Research
- Research: Instruments used to Collect Data in Psychotherapy Process Research
- Reaearch: Defining Trauma with Traumatic Antecedents Interview (TAI) Scale
- Research: Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method (CCRT)
- Research: Aspects of Therapy Session Dialogue
- Research: Conversation Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Research: Therapeutic Common Factors in Different Modalities of Psychotherapy
- Research: CCRT Method comparison of Personality Organization
- Research: CCRT used to study Gestalt and Emotive Behavioral Therapy
- Research: CCRT-LU
- Research: CCRT Method used to analyze Literature
- Research: Generic Change Indicators (CGI)
- Research: Qualitative Method of Measuring Change
- Instruments used to Collect Data in Psychotherapy Outcome Research
- Psychodynamic Interventions Rating Scale (PIRS)
- Comprehensive Psychotherapeutic Interventions Rating Scale (CPIRS)
- Research: Orlinsky Generic Model of Psychotherapy
- Research: The Psychotherapeutic Alliance in Research
- Category: Studies of Cultural Anthropology
- The Dark Side of Morality: Group Polarization
- Making Contact with Culture: A Psychotherapist’s View
- “Worst Problem” faced by Domestic Maids: Study
- Peer-Based Mental Health Services for Domestic Workers
- Nationalism and National Identity: Liberating and Destructive Aspects
- Conformity and Obedience: Slippery Slope to Dehumanization of the Other
- The Function of Religion in Mental Health Today
- Privacy as Personal Control
- Category: Suicide Crisis Intervention
- Category: Therapy Books
- Category: Watch Videos
- Transitioning. This is an important interview.
- Bob Resnick – Gestalt Therapy And Homeostasis: Evolution – With Movement, Discrimination And Grace
- Bob and Rita Resnick: Gestalt Couples Therapy
- How Psychotherapy Works
- He explains the Polyvagal theory in a cool way.
- Watch “Dr. Peter A Levine Interview on Healing Trauma and Restoring Goodness” on YouTube
Tests
- Anxiety and Panic Disorder Symptoms Test
- To what extent is hoarding affecting your life?
- Test: Fear of Being Judged By Others
- Social Anxiety Test
- Are You in a Relationship with Psychopathy
- Alexithymia Quiz: How to Tell if You are in a Relationship with Someone with No Feelings
- Psychological Test: Hypomania, Bipolar or Depression