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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

Mad in America

How Therapy and Techniques Often Overcomplicate the Process Clinically, I applied techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), exposure therapy, narrative therapy, and psychiatric rehabilitation.

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Integrating Redemption in Psychiatry, Part 3: A Nod to the Late Brian Wilson

Psychiatric Times

2 In his September 1, 2018, blog titled “Achillean Romance With Fangs,” D.N. Religion-adapted cognitive behavioral therapy: a review and description of techniques. Redemption also comes out in novels, especially mysteries, perhaps not a surprise since they and their characters often reflect real life. Psychol Trauma.

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Their protests to the contrary have even been seen as indications of a personality disorder. Remote therapy via the internet became routine during the COVID-19 epidemic. Their more complex and debilitating withdrawal symptoms have been regarded as a return of their own symptoms. But it may still be too expensive for many people.

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Supportive Psychotherapy - The Clinical Language of Psychiatry

Real Psychiatry

Since this is a psychiatry blog, I want to add a psychiatric definition of empathy and that is: Empathy is achieved by precise, insightful, persistent, and knowledgeable questioning until the doctor is able to give an account of the patients subjective experience that the patient recognizes as his own. (2)

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

I did mindfulness, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), PMT (Psychomotor Therapy), exposure, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment therapy), systems therapy, exercise and lifestyle therapy, graded activity and peer support, including WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan).