Did this on the phone, in Layers. Exported to ArtRage on the Toshiba M200. Resized from 512 to 1000 px sq. Deleted some bit, highlighted others, added some ink! All still using the layers!
Psychotherapy Online Research
More on the Lancet study of psychotherapy online, from Brainblogger.
Logging On for Psychotherapy | Brain Blogger:
A recent issue of The Lancet reports that real-time online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in treating patients with depression. The study evaluated nearly 300 patients from 55 general practice clinics across the United Kingdom who had a diagnosis of depression. The patients were randomly assigned to either receive online CBT in addition to their usual care from the general practitioner, or be placed on an 8-month waiting list for CBT while still receiving their usual care. At the 4-month follow-up, 38% of the CBT group had recovered from their depression, compared to only 24% in the control group. After 8 months, 42% of the patients receiving CBT had recovered, compared to 26% in the control group.
In the comments I wrote:
Good to see the research. While there may not be such easy to collate evidence for depth psychology and psychotherapy using the online therapeutic relationship as the main focus of the work, from my practice in this field it can be done. The use of imagination is enhanced while writing, hence often the book is better than the film.
Life after death
Psychological Immunity
Post on PsyBlog. Interesting to call it the psychological immune system. I have always called them “coping mechanisms” and we need them. But because they are unconscious, it is useful to monitor them consciously, especially when they are old and out of date, like coping by over-eating, or coping by over-working.
The unconscious is wise. The unconscious is stupid.
The Psychological Immune System | PsyBlog:
The very fact that we don’t seem to notice our psychological immune system is probably the only reason it works at all. After all, in order to feel better we have to conveniently forget some important facts, such as how much we wanted the job we didn’t get, loved the partner who walked out or were enjoying the ice cream we just dropped.
Interestingly the point I am making in this comment is made very well by the image used in the original. We could be walking around like this – long after the air is clean.
NZAP Psychotherapists make position clear with ACC
Email follows. Implications are that ACC will have a fight on their hands if they do not accept that NZAP members can assess the clients they work with.
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The use of Technology in Supervision
New Chapter on Technology in Supervision!
Authored by DeeAnna Nagel, Stephen Goss and Kate Anthony, a new chapter called “The Use of Technology in Supervision” has just been published under the section heading “Emerging and Specialist Issues” in “The Clinical Practice of Supervision”, edited by Pelling, Barletta and Armstrong, published by Australian Academic Press (2009).
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-11-15
Why do I let this come through each week? One reason is that my blog is a tool for my own thinking & writing. And these tweets will come up in a search on the blog. That is handy! I am not sure how else I could find them. Twitter keeps them, but not always available via their API restrictions. ??
Comic art
Reading Robot Comics on the iPhone – a pleasure. Occasionally pages stand out as really exellent illustrations. I’ll send them along to the blog.
These are from Birth 1 by Michael S. Bracco, another follows.
Robot Comics
Love these comics on the iPhone
This is Phantom Jack
http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/11/phantom-jack-itunes
How to create a socially mediated TV Channel on Twitter #waltzzzTV
I had a good TV night last night as I used my Twitter list’s recommendations to watch YouTube & other videos. Today at lunch we were discussing how to consciously optimise that experience. How to create list of tweets with TV links that would make good watching.
Thoughts on that question follow.
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