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The Psychodynamics of Dementia (1/5): Receiving a Diagnosis

  • 30th Aug 2019
  • Esther Ramsay Jones

There are limited talking therapy services for people with dementia. Yet psychotherapists can play an important role at every stage as this progressive condition unfolds. To mark the start of Alzheimer’s Month in September, psychotherapist and author Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones begins a five-part blog series on working psychodynamically in dementia care – beginning with the feelings that may attend a diagnosis.

The Importance of Place

  • 26th Aug 2019
  • Chris Rose

Our attachment to place is as profound and complex as our attachment to people. Chris Rose, editor of a new book about the connection between psychotherapy and psychogeography, considers how physical environment shapes our identity, and explains why we must attend to the ‘where’ of therapy, as well as the ‘when’ and ‘who’

Sex Addiction 7/7: Religious Practice

  • 23rd Aug 2019
  • Thaddeus Birchard

In the final blog of his series, Dr Thaddeus Birchard explores the relationship between sex addiction and religious practice. An Anglican priest turned psychosexual therapist, he highlights key links between the functions of sex and religion, from the abolition of negative affect to the rewards of ecstasy

Gaming in Therapy: An Introduction

  • 19th Aug 2019
  • Catherine Knibbs

What is gaming therapy, and how can it work within – rather than against – talking therapy? Ahead of a training in being a ‘tech ready therapist’, psychotherapist and technology enthusiast Catherine Knibbs introduces some current uses of computer games in therapy, from neurofeedback to narrative storytelling

Sex Addiction 6/7: Neuroscience

  • 16th Aug 2019
  • Thaddeus Birchard

Sharing the neuroscience of sex addiction with clients can help them to understand and circumnavigate their arousal chemistry, and relieve some of their guilt and shame. In the penultimate part of his blog series, psychosexual therapist Dr Thaddeus Birchard outlines the basics, from the role of vasopressin to the purpose of keeping an ‘urge diary’

The Psychology of Sunshine

  • 12th Aug 2019
  • Trevor Harley

How is the summer manifesting in your consulting room? What internal responses should psychotherapists be vigilant about when temperatures are high? Professor Trevor Harley, author of The Psychology of Weather, suggests a complex forecast

Sex Addiction 5/7: Internet Pornography

  • 9th Aug 2019
  • Thaddeus Birchard

In the fifth part of his blog series, psychosexual therapist Dr Thaddeus Birchard discusses the particular principles and problems of addiction to internet pornography, from ‘supernormal stimuli’ and the role of mirror neurons, to the two ways in which pornography addiction tends to escalate

The Body Isn’t Just Another Therapeutic Tool

  • 7th Aug 2019
  • Michael Soth

Body-oriented approaches used to be seen as the whacky fringe. Now, many therapeutic approaches are taking somatic processes seriously. But, suggests Michael Soth, there is a vast difference between ‘having’ a body and ‘being’ a body, between ‘using’ our bodies and ‘inhabiting’ them. To work effectively with the body, he argues, we must be mindful of the conflicted relationship between psyche and soma, and of the external relational dynamics between client and therapist.

What Trauma Is and What Trauma Is Not

  • 5th Aug 2019
  • Tracy Jarvis

How can we differentiate between traumatic and non-traumatic experiences, and what about our client’s own understanding of what trauma means? In her second monthly blog on trauma and neuroscience, Tracy Jarvis, trauma specialist and Director of Psychotherapy Excellence, shares some helpful insights on what to look out for in clinical practice.

Sex Addiction 4/7: Shame

  • 2nd Aug 2019
  • Thaddeus Birchard

What is the relationship between shame and sex addiction? In the fourth part of his blog series on this still stigma-ridden issue, psychosexual therapist Dr Thaddeus Birchard reflects on the nature and impact of shame, and shares the insight of a friend from a recovery programme: ‘Shame is to addiction what oxygen is to the fire’.