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The week's news in psychedelics: Psilocybin may help prevent chemo-induced nerve pain; Definium scores second FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation
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Innovations in Psychotherapy ConferenceTheir words
Honored to be speaking at the 2026 Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference (Nov 10–13 in Anaheim & Online)! Join us for evidence-based education & practical strategies to enhance your practice. Use code SPEAK26 to save $50:
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For postmenopausal women—and women with premature estrogen deprivation for other reasons—vaginal estrogen is a safe and highly effective therapy to alleviate the genitourinary syndrome of menopause, prevent recurrent UTIs, and likely to save lives.
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Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A Clinical Summit for Mind-Body HealingTheir words
There’s still time to join me for Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A Clinical Summit for Mind-Body Healing!
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If you suffer from amygdala hyperactivity that gives you one of the aforementioned psychiatric disorders, I think that not only should you be offered elective amygdalectomy, but your health insurance should be glad to pay for it (especially if done via ultramodern very safe radiosurgery) one time, rather than for a lifetime supply of more expensive, less effective talk therapies and medications.
Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacyastralcodexten.com
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Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Practices retreat, CancunTheir words
Join me in Cancun Jan 30–Feb 6, 2027 with Leading Edge Seminars!
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It may not be stored there, but what you're tapping into, it's not a repository of the memory, but it's part of this mind-body feedback loop where there's a sensation that your brain has an association to that might have a familiarity to a time in which you felt sad or scared.
If the Body Doesn't Keep the Score, What Does?drarielleschwartz.com
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This is a fascinating topic, and there’s a lot of BS floating around it. This book is one of the good ones.
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The emotional and relational dynamics are not an intrusion upon the work of prescribing. They are a part of the work itself.
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The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.
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There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us-therapy, meditation, psychedelics-, but that branding doesn't mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems.
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From one piece Manufacturing requirements are killing cell and gene therapy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Manufacturing and batch-release requirements, not biology, are what kill most promising cell and gene therapies.Their words
Excessive manufacturing requirements are a pervasive problem, especially in the field of cell and gene therapy and they are killing countless of promising medicines before they ever reach patients.
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Until manufacturing and regulatory risks become easier to underwrite, capital will keep drifting away from one of the most promising technologies of the last century.
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This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.
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Lastly, the duration of a clinical trial does not merely determine how fast an individual therapy reaches patients. It also shapes which diseases attract serious investment and which do not.
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Outcome Rating Scale (ORS)Their words
The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.
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Session Rating Scale (SRS)Their words
The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.
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The Balancing ActTheir words
The Balancing Act by therapist Nedra Tawwab (February)
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The brain cannot process more than one source of pain at a time, so a stronger pain masks a weaker one.Their words
It turns out the brain can't handle more than one pain input at a time - the broken ribs put the nerve pain on the back burner.
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing UpTheir words
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
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From one piece The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis (with 1 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Likewise, self-diagnosis should be understood as an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention to which patients do not have official access.
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Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.Their words
If a clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect, then, at least in some instances, diagnoses are medical interventions in themselves and ought to be treated and researched as such, with an eye to both positive effects and potential iatrogenic harms.
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Clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect independent of any other intervention.Their words
Their experiences highlight a striking, neglected and unchristened medical phenomenon: The therapeutic effect of a clinical diagnosis, independent of any other intervention, where clinical diagnosis refers to situating the person's experiences into a clinical category by a clinician or the patient.
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If one really wanted to know whether a treatment (e.g., CBT, IPT, ACT, EMDR) was more effective, it had to be directly compared to an approach intended to help - what Wampold and colleagues termed, a "bona fide" treatment. Doing otherwise, they argued, conflated artifacts of research design with actual research results.
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Therapists overestimate their own effectiveness by about 65%, and it is not a Western cultural artifact.Their words
Since 2012 when the first study appeared in the literature, others have been published documenting the tendency of practitioners to overestimate their effectiveness - on average, by 65% (1, 2).
Alas, it seems everyone comes from Lake Wobegonwritings.scottdmiller.com
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From one piece How to (and not to) become a more effective therapist 2 beliefs · writings.scottdmiller.com
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What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.Their words
It turns out that therapists who perform well on the FIS establish stronger relationships and are more effective (2). More to the point, the evidence shows FIS-related skills are trainable and that such training leads to better results (3, 4, 5).
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Over the last 50 years, treatment methods have proliferated despite a lack of evidence of differential effectiveness between approaches. And even when a randomized controlled trial indicates a particular approach works, none show practitioners become more effective when they are trained in that modality.
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Indeed, as I've reported in previous posts, research not only shows therapists do not improve with time and experience in the field, but on average become less effective (1, 2, 3, 4).
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The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.Their words
Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.
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And if you just wanted to be methodologically conservative and say, “That’s a step too far; I don’t want to buy it,” I’m sympathetic to that. I think that you’re just wimping out, I think that you should have more courage, but I get the impulse.
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Cognitive Behavior TherapyTheir words
I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.
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Character is not fixed: therapy works because habitual neural pathways can re-form, sometimes within minutes.Their words
In my practice, I have seen that opening neural pathways can lead to profound change, to brand-new traits and behavior, sometimes in a matter of minutes.
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Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.Their words
I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.
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Schema Therapy Online CommunityTheir words
This online community is a powerful way to stay in touch with other schema therapists around the globe, on a regular basis; to be part of the ever-growing ST community.
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Schema Therapy Training Institute video seriesTheir words
This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy
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First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.
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From one piece ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript] 3 beliefs · drjessicahiggins.com
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the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum
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In 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.
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And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.
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I suggested that psychedelics might work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors.
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A more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by _weakening_ the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
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Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the WayTheir words
This book isn't just bad, it's dangerous.
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From one piece Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims 2 beliefs · psychologytoday.com
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It takes more than 20 sessions, or about six months of weekly therapy, before 50 percent of patients show meaningful improvement. It takes more than 40 sessions for 75 percent of patients to show meaningful improvement.
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The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.
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From one piece Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing? 2 beliefs · psychologytoday.com
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No research ever suggested that manualized CBT was more effective than psychodynamic therapy. It was just more often researched. There is a world of difference between saying a treatment is less often researched and saying it has been scientifically discredited.
Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com
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PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapy
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The term "evidence-based therapy" is also, de facto, a code word for "not psychodynamic."
Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com
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Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy?Their words
Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy? [pdf] Few patients who get “evidence-based therapy” get well
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The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapyTheir words
The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy [pdf] Hailed as a contemporary classic and studied in training programs around the world—the paper that established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment
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