Jonathan Shedler

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When the Therapy Relationship Is the Problem 31 Aug
Why “Just Talking” Helps 24 Aug
What Skilled Psychotherapists Sound Like 17 Aug
Real Psychotherapists Don’t Act Like Therapists on the Internet 10 Aug
Why We Act Like Some of Our Thoughts Aren’t Ours 3 Aug
When Compromised Care Becomes “Best Practice” 27 Jul
How Skilled Psychotherapists Really Listen 20 Jul
This Is Talk Therapy: What Psychotherapy Is and How It Works 13 Jul
When Psychotherapy Works, Then What? 6 Jul
Psychological Illiteracy Begins in Psychology 101 29 Jun
Skilled Therapists Don’t Say “Your Feelings Are Valid” 22 Jun
The Patient Who Can’t Close the Door 15 Jun
Podcast: What Makes Psychotherapy Meaningful? 8 Jun
What I’d Teach Every Grad Student on Day One 1 Jun
Six Reasons People Repeat Painful Experiences 25 May
Therapist Ethics Is Not About Following Rules 18 May
Eavesdropping on a Psychotherapy Session 11 May
Therapy Influencers Sell Illusion, Not Insight 4 May
When Therapists Mistake Caretaking for Empathy 27 Apr
What Is Therapy For? 20 Apr
Psychotherapy follows a dose-response curve: it takes more than 20 sessions before half of patients meaningfully improve, and more than 40 before three quarters do. 19 Nov 2017
The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked. 19 Nov 2017
No research ever showed manualized CBT to be more effective than psychodynamic therapy; it was only studied more often. 2 Oct 2013
"Evidence-based therapy" is a branding term rather than a scientific one, and in practice it is a code word for "not psychodynamic". 2 Oct 2013