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Cbt
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As a self-appointed spokesperson for the importance of feelings, I feel like a pariah among my peers. My poor colleagues are in the thrall of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Scientifically hamstrung CBT barely recognizes the legitimacy of feelings! They are phenomena that must be subjected to affect regulation via processes that can turn people into emotional eunuchs.
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― HOMESTEADING in the CALM EYE of the STORM: A Therapist Navigates His Complex PTSD
― HOMESTEADING in the CALM EYE of the STORM: A Therapist Navigates His Complex PTSD
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Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural approaches and psychiatric drugs – technologies that put the cause of the problem right between your ears. The therapies our governments now want all focus on internal not external reform. They don’t see suffering as a call to change external circumstances for the good of our development.
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― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
