Good psychotherapy is not about offering solutions to people's problems. It is about helping people understand what their problem really is... Meet Joe... Joe is depressed. His wife just declared that she is going through with her divorce. Having built his past 20...
Insight: A Blog for the Critical Consumer of Psychotherapy
By Psychologist Dr. Rune MoelbakWhat Does Therapy Have in Common With Art?
The Beauty of Therapy: My many years of experience as a therapist have taught me that therapy is a beautiful experience. People change by finding connections between memories, thoughts, and feelings, forming beautiful new patterns out of the fragments of their life....
Borderline Personality Disorder and The Fear of Being Yourself
The concept of Borderline Personality Disorder is often understood as being synonymous with an impossible individual who acts out in the most ostentatious ways. The concept conjures up images of suicidal threats and acts, as well as intense anger and aggression....
Things We Can Learn from Happy Couples
It’s all supposed to be very rosy: Two people meet, fall in love, and live happily ever after. That’s what the fairy tale states... And yet underneath the hood of every romantic relationship, we find one thing that all relationships have in common: they are all a lot...
The Surprising Reason Why Arguing Might Help Your Relationship
Why Couples May Not Argue Enough... At first glance it might seem that one of the major reasons couples decide to pursue couples counseling is that they fight too much. Ironically, however, the fights couples engage in are often the result of a determination by both...
Psychotherapy: Does Insight Cure?
Over the past 100 years, therapists have asked themselves the question: what really produces change in people? In this connection, the role "insight" plays in helping us resolve our issues has often been a point of contention... So does insight really cure? Insight in...
The Power of Vulnerability in Your Relationship
What is it that makes some couples have more successful and rewarding relationships and others teeter on the brink of relationship disaster? The Secret of Successful Relationships: If you ask me, the secret to a successful relationship or marriage lies in the capacity...
Number 1 Reason Couples Fight (and What to Do About It)
Even though it might seem that couples argue about a myriad of different issues, when we look a little deeper, we often find that most arguments have one thing in common: They are really about how we feel about each other, and more specifically, how loved or how...
Better Therapy for Social Anxiety
What Many People Don’t Know about Social Anxiety
Social Anxiety, like so many other “anxiety disorders”, is not really about anxiety. If we look a little deeper there is almost always something else at stake... Anxiety as Substitute Emotion Quite frequently, anxiety acts as a substitute emotion that takes the place...
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