Before they were “Rackets” …

Before they were “Rackets” … (A Contribution to the Field of Transformation by Dr. David Kamnitzer)   New breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychology are shedding new light on understanding and facilitating Transformational Shifts. The insight...

Shrink Rap Radio 408

Shrink Rap Radio #408 – The New Science of Physical Intelligence with Thalma Lobel PhD. Thalma Lobel, Ph.D. is the author of the 2014 book Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence. Dr. Lobel is an internationally recognized psychologist and a professor at...

An Intro to Coherence Therapy

A Video Introduction to Coherence Therapy Presented by Niall Geoghegan As a lead up to the next Coherence Therapy workshop in Sydney, Australia in early July, Simon d’Orsogna and Niall Geoghegan have put together this great series of videos for those who are...

A Problem and a Solution

At an historically unprecedented rate, schools today are instructing parents to have their children evaluated by a doctor for ADHD.  At an unprecedented rate, parents today are deciding on their own to take that step.  And at an unprecedented rate, children now are...

Greek Gods, Narcissists and Psychopaths

Greek Gods, Narcissists and Psychopaths: What Do They Know about Empathy? by Debra Kaplan I am often asked how I went from Wall Street commodity option trader to trauma and sex addiction therapist.  The leap might sound rather incongruous, but in reality it was...

A Neuropsychotherapy View of Depression

A Neuropsychotherapy View of Depression The Neuropsychotherapist Members Only content MEMBERS: Be sure you are logged in to see your viewing options Members Login Not a member?  Click on Subscription to find out...

Pleasure Maximisation and Distress Avoidance

  Pleasure Maximisation and Distress Avoidance Over the past three blogs in this series on Neuropsychotherapy Basics, we have looked at the basic psychological needs of attachment, control, and self-esteem enhancement. Now we turn our attention to the forth basic...

Self-esteem Enhancement

Self-esteem Enhancement Last time we looked at the basic psychological need for orientation and control. This time we consider another basic need, and that is the need for self-esteem enhancement and protection. This need for self-enhancement or self-esteem has been...

Orientation and Control

Orientation and Control Last blog we looked at the basic psychological need of attachment—the need for others. This time we are going to look at an equally important and integrally linked need for orientation and control. According to Epstein (1990), the need for...

Attachment Styles

  Attachment Style Continuing in our series on Neuropsychotherapy Basics, we look at the central, and critically important, need for attachment. I have touched briefly on attachment in the first blog “Basic Needs” and this time will expand on the concept of...

Consistency Theory

Consistency Theory Last time in “Neuropsychotherapy Basics” we looked at the four basic needs as defined by Klaus Grawe and based on earlier work by Seymour Epstein. In this blog I would like to take you through the consistency model that we touched on last time and...

A New Classification System

A New Classification System The newly released Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has made a number of modest alterations to the previous DSM-IV, but at the core it remains a dictionary, describing clusters of symptoms, to ensure clinicians...