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• Jonathan Shedler Newsletter 6 Jul When Psychotherapy Works, Then What?
• Jonathan Shedler Newsletter 13 Jul This Is Talk Therapy: What Psychotherapy Is and How It Works
• Jonathan Shedler Newsletter 8 Jun Podcast: What Makes Psychotherapy Meaningful?
• Jonathan Shedler Newsletter 11 May Eavesdropping on a Psychotherapy Session
• Jonathan Shedler Korrent 22 Jun Telling a patient "your feelings are valid" is not therapy: it is the mirror image of "get a grip", and it makes the therapist a judge of feelings instead of a companion in them. 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…
• Jonathan Shedler Korrent 19 Nov 2017 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. 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.