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Recommended Reading: Super Psyched by Dr Adam Dorsay

Format: Kindle edition Published: 1 October 2024 Genre: Self-help Storygraph | Goodreads The harmful effects of loneliness and lack of fulfilling relationships are well-documented—higher rates of anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, addiction, and even premature death. In providing nearly 20,000 hours of intensive psychotherapy, Dr Adam Dorsay has effectively treated hundreds of patients, from adolescent gang members to survivors of torture to Fortune 500 executives and professional athletes in the pressure cooker of Silicon Valley. The common thread? They all struggled with …

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Recommended Reading: Essential Ideas 2: Self-Awareness by The School of Life

Format: Paperback, 96 pages Expected publication: 12 November 2024 by The School of Life Genres: Psychology, self-help Goodreads | Waterstones Understanding ourselves is the key to unlocking our true potential. Here is a collection of The School of Life’s most penetrating insights into the puzzles of self-awareness. By exploring key themes within the topic of self-knowledge, such as Emotional Intelligence Anxiety, Normality, Pessimism and Self-sabotage, this book teaches us how to look into ourselves, how to make sense of our …

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For Practitioners: On Learning From the Patient by Patrick Casement

Format: Kindle edition, 256 pages Published: 15 October 2013 by Routledge (first published 1 April 1985) Genre: Psychology, counselling, psychoanalysis Goodreads | Purchase this book through Waterstones On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores the dynamics of the helping relationship – learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in search of. Using many telling clinical examples, he illustrates how, through trial identification, he …

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The Therapeutic Power of Music

This blog post isn’t about music therapy per se; music therapy is HCPC-accredited, and music therapists are normally qualified at postgraduate level to use the power of music to provide therapeutic benefits. Instead, this post is more about how therapeutic music can be outside of being delivered by a music therapist. There’s something so powerful about listening to a song that describes how you’re feeling, either through the lyrics or the arrangement of the music, or, often, a combination of …

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Recommended Reading: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Format: Kindle edition, 417 pages Published: 25 September 2014 by Penguin Genres: Psychology, self-help Goodreads | Purchase this book on Wordery | Waterstones What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and …

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Recommended Reading: Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Synopsis This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life. It is copiously illustrated with examples of my own and my clients’ journeys of recovering. This book is also for those who do not have Cptsd but want to understand and help a loved one who does. This book also contains an overview of the tasks of recovering and a great many practical tools …

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Your Complete Guide to Finding a Private Counsellor/Psychotherapist

This guide is for people in the UK wanting to find a counsellor or psychotherapist and not knowing where to start. I will explore the following: what is a counsellor/psychotherapist, where do you look for one, and what should you bear in mind. The first thing you might be asking yourself is: what is the difference between a counsellor and a psychotherapist? To be perfectly honest, there is very little difference. I’ll explore some possible differences, but all in all, …

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Recommended Reading: Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb

Format: Kindle edition, 228 pages Published: 1 October 2012 by Morgan James Publishing Genres: Psychology, self-help Goodreads | Purchase this book on Wordery A large segment of the population struggles with feelings of being detached from themselves and their loved ones. They feel flawed, and blame themselves. Running on Empty will help them realize that they’re suffering not because of something that happened to them in childhood, but because of something that didn’t happen. It’s the white space in their …