And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,
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Little Xena was sleeping nowhere near a book but I thought I would take a photo and include it anyway, How are you doing? I am not too bad. Happy to be initiating this weekly habit once again.
Events are not what they used to be in terms of frequency and location. Often times the location is one's computer or smart phone. The magnificent individual's presence is piped into some other location that also has a computer and then the excitement begins. This reality makes our upcoming hosting of Kelly S. Thompson's new memoir, Still, I Cannot Save You, even more special than it naturally is anyway. We have a big billboard below. Just scroll down for the details.
It is an honour and a pleasure to be the real life location of this one. Special thanks to Kelly Thomson, Kelly Clare, and Penguin Random House for this lovely happening. Do pop over if you can. Send us a note to let us know so we can assess numbers and provide a safe and comfortable experience for all.
In other news take care of yourself. We shall be checking in with you in a week's time.
Our friends at Leading Edge Seminars are hosting an incredible learning and vacation experience in Cancun this February called Innovations in Psychotherapy. This is a unique opportunity to get away for a week this winter while you learn new skills and earn CEs in the morning, then have afternoons at leisure at an all-inclusive, luxury resort.
Just imagine…
Fresh coffee in the morning on your private balcony... yoga at the beach... an all-you-can-eat breakfast overlooking the ocean... training until lunch with one of your favourite clinicians... then the afternoon having fun in a beautiful tropical paradise!
At Innovations in Psychotherapy Cancun, you’ll have 6 half-day CE workshops to choose from:
Frank Anderson, MD- IFS Parts – Yours & Theirs: What Every Successful IFS Therapist Needs to Know
Lisa Ferentz, MSW, LCSW-C, DAPA -Treating Anxiety & Depression: Creative Strategies to Help Your Most Challenging Clients
John Briere, PhD -Complex Trauma & Challenging Client Presentations: Addressing 5 Clinical Dilemmas with Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience
Arielle Schwartz, PhD - Somatic Therapy: New Approaches to Trauma Treatment
Eliana Gil, PhD - Expression, Connection & Witnessing: The Use of Play Therapy and Other Expressive Approaches for the Assessment and Treatment of Kids, Parents & Families
“. . .decades of research has shown that most individuals with tinnitus can in fact alter their negative outlook on the condition (and often, on life in general) and can habituate to or largely ignore the tinnitus with the proper training. The challenge for patients and professionals alike is to determine who can deliver proper training and how they can master the art and science of delivering it.”
― Robert Sweetow, from the introduction to Living Well with Tinnitus: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques by Hashir Aazh and Brian Moore
This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health – historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness practices.
The text demonstrates how socio-cultural identities including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and age intersect with clinical work in a range of settings. [More. . .]
Experiences of grief can be bewildering, disorienting, and isolating; everything seems somehow different, in ways that are difficult to comprehend and describe. Why does the world as a whole look distant, strange, and unfamiliar? How can we know that someone is dead, while at the same time find this utterly unfathomable, impossible? Grief Worlds explores a host of philosophical questions raised by grief, showing how philosophical inquiry can enhance our understanding of grief and vice versa. [More. . .]
This important book argues that après-coup, a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse, not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life, and how human sexuality develops, but also allows for a richer and wider explanation of our mental structures and thinking.
The book outlines how après-coup has been understood and defined by Freud, Lacan and other authors, considers it in diverse psychoanalytic cultures and explores its resonance in dream-work, sexual drives, thought, and the experience of trauma. [More. . .]
Starting with the significance of Kant during Bion’s years as a student, the author traces the key influences on Bion in his psychoanalytic and personal development, progressing through Bion’s particularly productive pre-psychoanalytic work based on social field theory, his well-known elaboration of Klein’s schizoid mechanisms known as the theory of containment, and all the while with his deeply thoughtful clinical approach inspired latterly by an understanding of literary creativity. [More. . .]
Staying connected in this human race is the most direct route to happiness. But never have we been more disconnected. A call to simply connect isn’t enough any longer. Connection is what we’re wired for, and it can be easy: waving at your neighbour, going on that second date, buying coffee for the person behind you. The hard part comes when we are called on to reconnect, to repair or re-engage, especially after we’ve been wronged, alienated or hurt. We all desperately want to get it right, but this requires another step, which is the magic each of us so often misses: the act of seeing. As simple as it is complex, it all comes down to this truth: when we’re feeling seen, we will rise. [More. . .]
When one little girl's world goes topsy turvy, her feelings are way too big and confusing. She has no idea what to do! And the adults in her home seem too busy to help, or feel too far away to talk to. With the help of an animal friend, she discovers the smart in her heart, and learns how to understand and cope with her emotions. [More. . .]
“'It was not until around the 1590s that happiness began to take on its current character of denoting—per the working definition here—a desirable mental experience of quality .”
- Tim Lomas - Happiness
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