Too many wannabes & charlatans. #jonathanshedler

''The goal of psychotherapy is becoming more whole—recognising there’s just one “us,”, reconciling inner conflict so we don’t have to continually work at cross purposes with ourselves .. '' - Jonathon Shedler.

'' The last thing we want to do in psychotherapy is concretize inner conflict ie: treat desires & feelings & mental representations of self & others as separate people 'parts' or 'systems' in our heads with own personalities, like characters in a puppet show. -Jonathon Shedler,

Dr. Steven Reidbord -Speaking sense as usual. '' Not all "therapy" is really psychotherapy. I've said this repeatedly, e.g., in this early video: youtube.com/watch?v=YKtQGl…

Just had a productive and spirited email debate with Gabor Maté. It helped us understand more clearly where exactly we disagree (I think he downplays preexisting individual differences and the role of genetics) and where we agree (on a lot of issues, including the need to create

Does trauma break your heart ? No. It does not. michaelscheeringa.com/trauma-dispatc…

Resilience remains a much overlooked issue in the world of trauma therapy where we remain stuck in the throes of capitalising misery and monetising pain.

Epigenetic trauma - carried via our father's sperm. Highly unlikely. Still unproven. Nothing new to report or to monetize today..michaelscheeringa.com/trauma-dispatc…

Tired of hearing of ' parts' in Psychotherapy. Artificial & reductionist. Chops us up into overly neat boxes. Reality is as humans we are a single, messy, complex being. Its jargon. Dilutes responsibility & identity. In addiction I challenge clients who talk about 'my addict''.

Psychiatrization and the medicalisation of ordinary life events. We are failing to acknowledge how consumers & producers of social media have blindly accepted the medical model. We are in the midst of a rampant rise of Factitious Disorder & an Iatrogenic pandemic.

McGarvey introduces 'Trauma Industrial Complex' “the system in which the real & urgent issue of mass unacknowledged, untreated trauma is commodified, medicalised & repackaged for profit, validation & influence”. People positioning themselves as trauma ‘experts’” ...

We don't see nearly enough academic rigour /critical appraisal in the world of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

..more on the 'medicalisation of life' . The rise of neotoddlerism.

The entire Childhood ACEs framework rests on xsectional studies that cannot establish cause & effect. No proven method exists to explain how experiences as varied as parental divorce/neglect/verbal abuse directly cause mental & physical illnesses from heart attacks to cancer.

For patients with vulnerabilities -complex PTSD, disordered eating, psychosis -the very people IFS practitionerstreat — IFS therapy may destabilize already fragile mental states. Rachel Corbett’s report on IFS that patients say have destroyed their lives: nymag.visitlink.me/l-u20g

''' To move toward perfection is to move out of life, or what is worse, never to enter it. Addiction to perfection, which psychologically indicates enslavement by a complex.''...Marion Woodman, Jungian Analyst. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Love when my colleagues tell it like it is..@StevenReidbordMD

A useful, timely & relevant article from Psychotherapist Sophie Frost on the current climate in Psychotherapy that ties in with several articles I've written in the past 2 years. #traumaoverreach #theraposeurs #instatherapy theprimrosepractice.com/is-therapy-cul…

Vit D3 10,000ui here daily for 15 years LFG🔥

A topic close to my heart & even closer to my sense of logic .. neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/polyvagal…