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New Therapist
Indispensable survival guide for the thinking therapist
What is postmodernism and what does it have to do with therapy, anyway?
An interview with Lois Shawver
Maybe, like thousands of other therapists, you have heard of and even read what are considered core postmodern therapy texts. And maybe you still struggle to put into a neat sentence your understanding of what it's all about. But, being tongue-tied on the matter could be more a function of the difficulty postmodernists themselves have in clearly defining what they're about than your ignorance. In this exclusive interview, Lois Shawver, makes sense of what postmodernism is about and what it means for therapy.
With One Voice: Guidelines for hearing voices groups in clinical settings
By Keith Coupland, Vicky Macdougall and Eric Davis
These guidelines have developed from the experience of practitioners and service users who have contributed to seven years of group work for psychosis in Gloucestershire, UK.
In your mind's eye: Speculations on the neurobiology of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
By Uri Bergmann
Uri Bergmann, an EMDR Institute Facilitator in New York, has recently put together a speculative neurobiological hypothesis for the effects of EMDR. In this article, he draws on a growing body of research into the area, particularly the ideas of Harvard University sleep researcher Robert Stickgold, who first identified the physiological pathways that link EMDR to REM functioning. Bergmann' offers his thoughts on the matter in a form accessible to the neurologically naïve as a first step to understanding the neurobiology of EMDR.
The rise of integrative psychotherapy
By John Söderlund
Integrative psychotherapy Is that like eclectic psychotherapy? Isn't everyone essentially integrative or eclectic, anyway? So, why the fuss about integration?
Because, says George Stricker, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology in the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, eclecticism is simply not enough and the growth of integration is good for both practitioners and clients. Stricker is unequivocal that the integrative psychotherapy movement has gained pace in the past few decades. Quite simply, that's "because the movement conforms to what goes on in treatment and what is helpful to patients," he explains.