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Clinical Philosophy

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.

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Emotional Support Animals: Considering the Ramifications

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Student Blog post by Adam Duberstein discusses the role of emotional support animals in clinical psychology. Within days after receiving my master’s-level license to practice psychotherapy in Michigan, two acquaintances asked me to write them letters which they could use in order to obtain an emotional support animal (ESA).

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

by Kate MacDuffie and Tim Strauman about their newly published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Therefore, treatment outreach should be accompanied by efforts to educate patients that experience—including psychotherapy—can change the brain. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Reference Article.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Schizophrenia? Clearly my husband wasn’t. the nurse told me.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy? Psychotherapy - a form of prostitution? John Ryan Haule.