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The United Nations describes violence against women as a “pandemic in diverse forms.” Thirty-five percent of women have experienced sexual and/or physical violence, often in intimate relationships. In some nations, an unimaginable seventy percent of women have suffered sexual and/or physical violence …
PHOTO BY © Wavebreakmedia Ltd | Dreamstime.com I am always learning. I learn from the perinatal women that sit across from me each week in session. I learn from the women who open up, post and share their experiences …
PHOTO BY © Wavebreakmedia Ltd | DREAMSTIME.COM I recently had a client tell me how much she liked me as a therapist, but also as a person. She acknowledged that she knew very little about me personally to make …
Join me for an on-the-aide conversation about Top Tips and Techniques for Expanding One’s Empathy. Radio Empathy is BAAACK by popular demand!!! Not to be missed . . . Click here to play the show: 10 Top Tips and Techniques for Expanding …
Chapter Introduction"Technology can offer challenges and opportunities for the private practitioner. This chapter first explores how psychotherapists of different ages experience boundaries and the Internet. The discussion progresses to methods of integrating technology assessment and digital testing and the impact …
William James“By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: …
This work aims to be educational in a brain-storming way about the role of empathy in the community and the market for empathy services. Hanna Holborn Gray has said that “education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it …
The neurochemical reshaping of personality has had many unanticipated consequences. I acknowledge that the debate is not ended by the Chapter in my A Rumor of Empathy on “Plato Not Prozac,” the name of which is hereby acknowledged to be from …
If the survivor can feel safe enough to express what happened into an empathic receptivity in the context of a trusting environment that does not retraumatize by skepticism and cross-examination, then the abuse, the boundary violations, and the perpetrations, begin …
Empathy is like oxygen for the soul (according to a famous statement by Heinz Kohut). So if you are experiencing a shortness of breath, the commitment of these books and the radio show is to expand the flow of oxygen …
