Psychotherapy
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011Psychotherapists use many different methods to facilitate recovery and integration of repressed trauma from intrinsic memory. I prefer the body centered desensitization technique to bring painful and frightening memories into conscious awareness and release the emotional charge on them, along with Voice Dialogue, journaling exercises and Inner Child work to […]
The Small Deindling Minority of Healthcare
Thursday, November 17th, 2011Treatment should not turn a patient into a zombie because of a medication that happens to be approved for the patient’s diagnosis. Therefore I don’t prescribe drugs that numb patients’ emotional responsiveness unless they are overwhelmed by the intensity of their emotions. My patients are told that the target outcome we […]
The Role of the Prescriber is too Often Separated from the Roll of Therapist
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Unfortunately, in modern clinics the role of the prescriber has too often been treated as a technical function based on psychopharmacology alone, separated from the role of therapist. This is not how things were ordinarily done when I trained in psychiatry and I still prefer to combine these two roles in […]
Group Karma
Monday, May 24th, 2010Sometimes there are hints of what might be termed “group
karma” at work in the experience of Karmic Therapy patients.
We hear references to small groups of two or more—family members, friends, lovers—incarnating over and over again as a cohort to work out their karma together, like an ensemble cast in a television serial. Less often we […]
Quantum Psychology
Friday, August 28th, 2009Now at the dawn of a new millenium, the twentieth century revolution
that occurred in physics with the advent of relativity and quantum
mechanics is starting to transform the “softer” sciences of
psychology, biology and medicine and move them beyond the linear
Newtonian and Freudian models of the past. Perhaps Karmic Therapy
will find its place in the emerging quantum […]
Life Purpose as a Motivating Force in Therapy
Friday, February 8th, 2008Life purpose or personal destiny is not commonly emphasized in therapy. Traditional dynamic psychotherapy has focused primarily on bringing the unconscious sources of inner and outer conflict into the light of awareness so that these conflicts can be more maturely resolved. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other behavioral techniques rely on more direct strategies for promoting […]
Integral Psychotherapy
Friday, January 11th, 2008This video, discussing application of Ken Wilber’s Integral approach to psychotherapy, may be of interest to you. What I do is not specifically based in Ken Wilber’s theory but involves many of the same elements, which are universal. Those interested in Integral theory can check the website of the Integral Institute.
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WHY INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY? HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF THE BROAD PSYCHOSPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE THAT AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH OFFERS
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008VARIETIES OF SPLITTING IN OUR SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
We all feel conflicted or split at times, but normally these conflicting feelings are contained within an overall sense of a unified self. After severe trauma, in psychotic states, or during spiritual experiences, however, we may experience what seem to be different voices from within ourselves or from outside. […]
KARMIC THERAPY AND DISSOCIATIVE SOUL LOSS
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007When we are unable to face and integrate a difficult experience, the memory of the event can be split off from awareness as tension or pain frozen in the body, causing physical symptoms and limiting beliefs in the mind, generating personality problems. Splitting off unintegrated fragments of traumatic experience serves a protective function but at […]
KARMIC THERAPY AND PERSONALITY PATTERNS
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Trauma stored in the body as localized pain or tension can generate the limiting beliefs that underlie personality problems. The mental equivalent of a physical block is a fixed idea about the self and the world, a false conclusion drawn in reaction to pain and fear, a false belief upon which a habitual pattern of […]
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