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Critical Tools to Help Your Clients This Summer Although summer is supposed to be a time to relax and unwind, many clients experience a worsening of their symptoms during the summer months. Depressed clients may feel worse because they are unable to meet the cultural...

  The Manipulator: A Psychoanalytic View Manipulate: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means, especially to one's      own advantage (Webster's). Ben Bursten begins his unique study of the practical and theoretical problems raised by...

13 Free Tools to Help You in Your Practice   Everyday there seems to be more news that reflects a crisis in our mental health system. There’s a dramatic increase in suicides. School shootings have become so commonplace that many students live in a perpetual state...

The dilemma of the "Request For Records" Therapists and others in the mental health community are often unsure what to do when confronted with a request for a client's therapy records. Here are a few practice pointers based on what I have learned over the years in...

Relational Listening: A Handbook In this brilliantly accessible RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES HANDBOOK, Hedges is now offering the reader a crisply streamlined overview of his four Relational Listening Perspectives, with a few modifications and subtle refinements.  He...

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Training:  Learning more about low mood, stress, anxiety and how CBT can help you The Enhanced Primary Mental Health Service (EPMHS) provides support for people who are experiencing difficulties with depression or anxiety. This...

The Talking Cures How and why did the psychoanalytic psychotherapies arise out of psychoanalysis a half-century ago? What are the similarities and the differences–in goals, strategies, and results–between psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies,  and how have they...

Useful Servants: Psychodynamic Approaches to Clinical Practice Clinicians new to psychodynamic thought (as well as laymen who have some basic familiarity with psychoanalytic ideas) will find this a useful introduction to the variety of clinical approaches to...