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Posted in Education, Psychology, Therapy on Apr 9th, 2010
How to Think and Intervene Like an REBT Therapist
Windy Dryden
Routledge 2009
ISBN 978-0-415-48795-5 (pbk) £18.99
I liked this book a lot, partly because it is straightforward and ‘does what is says on the tin’. As you would expect from arguably the UK’s most authoritative REBT practitioner and teacher, the book, like an ideal REBT session, is [...]
Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Therapy on Oct 13th, 2009
I recently attended a two-day gathering of several hundred people. This large group could be divided into several sub-groups, with each sub-group thinking that they were the ones who were right, they had the real truth, they were the ‘pure and faithful ones’, they were the ones who could ‘really help’. You would think [...]
Posted in Therapy on Aug 7th, 2009
At the moment, anyone can claim to be a counsellor or psychotherapist in the UK. The titles are not a protected ones, like ‘doctor’. There are, of course, professional bodies that reputable practitioners will belong to. The major professional bodies (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, for example) are careful to distinguish [...]
Posted in Psychology, Therapy on May 26th, 2008
I read this morning of yet another person claiming to be a therapist who had had sex with his clients. Carmine Baffa from Atlanta persuaded as many as eight people to have sex with him while claiming it was part of their treatment. He bought a Ph.D. online and claimed to be a [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Aug 8th, 2007
The summer period marks an important anniversary for me. I used to be an evangelical Christian, and in the summer of 1966, I got ’saved’. I literally came out - I got up out of my seat in front of family and friends at a Billy Graham rally at the age of 13, and [...]
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