In the Interests of Impartiality: ‘CBT Saved My Life’

A story on the BBC website detailing one man’s very positive experience of working with CBT – to pre-empt any accusation of therapy-bashing, I think it’s worth a look! A couple of points that I think are interesting… ‘Psychotherapy was not a success and then a friend of the family suggested he had cognitive behavioural [...]

An Unbalanced Relationship

I’d like to dedicate this post to all those people who are clients, united by the experience of participating in an unbalanced relationship with a counsellor or therapist. I say unbalanced, because the usual experience of clients is that all the exposition and insight and conversation is a one-way street, and very little might be [...]

What’s Your Problem?

An interesting column from the Guardian last weekend asks What’s Your Problem?, and suggests that we live in a culture which reinforces the idea of having an issue or a disorder, and doesn’t stop to consider whether or not we really do. There’s a danger of falling into paradox here, as in my experience the [...]