Ideas Worth Remembering
Writing on psychotherapy, supervision, couples and family life, and the everyday work of staying well.
"Narcissist" has become a verdict. The theory behind it was built to do the opposite.
The profession adopted an outcome nobody argued for. It's time somebody argued against it.
There's a moment in this episode where the conversation stops being about a movie and becomes about responsibility, and I've been turning it over since.
Two therapists set out to talk about happiness and ended up dismantling it — gently, and with a joke about a camera lens. What they built in its place is more useful.
On the latest Got Therapy?, I asked Dr. Dan Rose a question I suspect plenty of our clients are asking too: when voice after voice says the same thing in the same words, "Am I being influenced or am I being hijacked?"
We have industrialized the one move that closes a conversation, and we are teaching it to everybody who watches us work.
Editorial · MIC LEDGER · Michael Baltimore Ph.D.
Before technique, before theory, before the intake form: you have to survive the person in the room. Here is what that actually asks of a clinician — and why the therapist who stays comfortable is the one guaranteeing nothing happens.
Georgia moved license renewal onto an outsourced platform this cycle. The requirement was never the problem. What wasn't said in advance was — and underneath it sits a rule that has outlived its evidence.