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Integrative psychodynamic therapy
Published in Stacy K. Nakell, Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, 2023
Psychodynamic treatment has been known as the “talking cure” because of its clinical focus on putting feelings and thoughts into words. This form of honest, spontaneous conversation plays a significant role in my work, as it does in all psychotherapy. Narrative therapy is the modality that is woven throughout our conversations. In asking my clients to share their thoughts and feelings about current and past events, I get to know the stories behind critical moments in their social and emotional development. As we go along, I also learn how they relied on picking or pulling to help them through those moments.
Entering the Woods at the Darkest Place—Experiential Engagement
Published in Brian C. Miller, Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress, 2021
Trauma therapists do emotion work—we work with feelings. Emotion work is another way of describing the therapeutic enterprise. Yes, we call it the “talking cure”, but what we are really describing—the center of this work—is emotions and awareness of emotions. Perhaps the most foundational of all of our therapeutic strategies is the question “How did that make you feel?”
Psychotherapy without talking
Published in Andre Matalon, Stanley Rabin, Benyamin Maoz, John Salinsky, Behind the Consultation, 2018
I am more accustomed to treating people with disabilities, including old persons after CVA with severe speech impairment and sometimes also new immigrants who do not speak any of the languages I know. These cases are very challenging but can also be very frustrating. In these cases we develop all our senses to understand their suffering and to join with it. It is really different from the traditional “talking cure” of the psychologists. We develop our observational senses, looking at body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, and the music underneath the content. There is also an international “code” in family practice. People like to be checked and touched; it makes them feel understood. By checking their bodies when a symptom is presented, people feel understood and maybe this is unique to family medicine – the integration aspects of body and mind. Your patient and your therapy reminded me of my own setting. It was indeed a different sort of psychotherapy where you had to be at your best to make room for creativity and courage. You also praised these two men’s strength. By doing this you helped them to reconstruct their stories in a more functional way. You were there for them, you accepted their limitations and handicap and, by doing so, they were able to find inside themselves the alternatives for a better coping and living.
Clinical hypnosis as a nondeceptive placebo: empirically derived techniques
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2023
The best way to decide whether to use hypnosis with a particular client is to ask for the client’s opinion, following a factual presentation about the nature of hypnosis, its potential benefits, its limitations, and the dependence of its effects on the characteristics of the client (see Kirsch, 1993). Because treatment outcome depends at least partially on response expectancies, clients generally are excellent judges of what will work best for them. Lest we forget, it was the client, Anna 0., rather than her therapist, who invented the “talking cure.” Furthermore, the therapeutic efficacy of allowing clients to choose their treatments has been verified experimentally (Devine & Fernald, 1973; Kanfer & Grimm, 1978; Lazarus, 1973).
When a New Mother Becomes Mentally Unhealthy, It Is Everyone’s Problem: Shanghai Women’s Perceptions of Perinatal Mental Health Problems
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2020
Simone Schwank, Helena Lindgren, Birgitta Wickberg, Shih-Chien Fu, Ding Yan, Ewa Andersson
Our study generated novel insights into Chinese women’s perceptions of perinatal mental health problems in Shanghai and their care-seeking behavior. The women perceived a sense of loneliness and lack of support in their early motherhood, despite the involvement of family members. Conflicting feelings about transitioning from traditional to modern motherhood and parenting, which affected the women’s mental health, were explored. The majority of the women expressed openness to a talking cure through friends and emphasized the role of a supportive husband for mental well-being. Their friends and husbands were the primary contacts from whom to seek support regarding perinatal mental health problems.
Re-Placing Objects
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2018
Psychoanalysis is, famously, the “talking cure.” In its “upward bias” toward representation and the symbolic, it privileges the dematerialized. We analysts are wary or even disdainful of the concrete. We traffic in words, and words, we have been told, are made in the murder of the thing. It’s no mistake that the highest defense in the Freudian toolkit—sublimation—was originally a chemical term describing the direct transition from a solid into the evanescence of gas.