About five months ago the head psychiatrist at the clinic where I work approached me about starting a peer supervision group for the Interns and Externs training there. He wanted to construct a space where they could present and discuss their cases, receive feedback from their peers and also raise any issues that they were [...]
A joke told by my supervisor:
A client speaking to his Rogerian therapist says: “I am so depressed, I just don’t feel like is worth living.” The therapist replies: “I hear you saying that you are in pain and that you are not sure how you will ever feel better.” The client replies by saying: “I [...]
The process of terminating with ongoing psychotherapy patients, especially long-term patients (those generally seen for a year or more) is one that can be very meaningful and emotional for both therapist and patient. Termination has appropriately been linked with past experiences of loss and abandonment, existential fears of death and dying, as well as with [...]
Donnel Stern’s introduction to the single volume edition of the psychoanalyst Edgar Levenson’s two major books, The Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983) (published together by Analytic Press, 2005) attempts to both contextualize and highlight the important aspects of Levenson’s work. Not surprisingly, Stern’s introductory remarks are shaped by the current [...]
The role of statistics in sports can be generally stated as providing more objective and sophisticated evaluations of an athlete’s performance. At its heart, statistics are tools that can be used to increase a team’s chance of winning a game. In this sense, much like counting cards can help win at blackjack, keeping track of [...]
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