Amy Jones 12/1/11 Amy Jones 12/1/11 jonathan shedler on the extraordinary power of psychotherapy in scientific american “The reality is that psychodynamic therapy has proved its effectiveness in rigorous controlled studies. Not only that, but research shows that people who receive psychodynamic therapy actually continue to improve after therapy ends—presumably because the understanding they gain is global, not targeted to encapsulated, one-time problems.” Read More Amy Jones 8/2/11 Amy Jones 8/2/11 september 11th studies give rise to humility and reassessment in trauma treatment Read More Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11 Peter Kramer contributes to the antidepressant argument in The New York Times Read More Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11 The New York Times looks at what’s good about “telepsychiatry”: a 40-year-old question? Read More Amy Jones 7/1/11 Amy Jones 7/1/11 identity management: the new york times magazine explores the dilemma of a therapist when a client’s sexual identity and religious beliefs conflict Read More Amy Jones 6/12/11 Amy Jones 6/12/11 when are animals useful in psychotherapy? Read More Amy Jones 6/12/11 Amy Jones 6/12/11 therapy in the NYT book review Read More Amy Jones 6/1/11 Amy Jones 6/1/11 the New York Times reports on the emerging difficulty of finding a male psychotherapist Read More Amy Jones 3/21/11 Amy Jones 3/21/11 “They procrastinate because they have no external authority figure demanding that they write,” he says. “Often I explain to the patient that there is an authority figure he’s answerable to, but it’s not human. It’s Time itself that’s passing inexorably. That’s why they call it Father Time. Every time you procrastinate or waste time, you’re defying this authority figure.” Procrastination, he says, is a “spurious form of immortality,” the ego’s way of claiming that it has all the time in the world; writing, by extension, is a kind of death. He gives procrastinators a tool he calls the Arbitrary Use of Time Moment, which asks them to sit in front of their computers for a fixed amount of time each day. “You say, ‘I’m surrendering myself to the archetypal Father, Chronos,’ ” he says. ‘I’m surrendering to him because he has hegemony over me.’ -Barry Michels on procrastination and writing Read More Amy Jones 3/21/11 Amy Jones 3/21/11 article on creativity, therapy and the shadow in the New Yorker Read More
Amy Jones 12/1/11 Amy Jones 12/1/11 jonathan shedler on the extraordinary power of psychotherapy in scientific american “The reality is that psychodynamic therapy has proved its effectiveness in rigorous controlled studies. Not only that, but research shows that people who receive psychodynamic therapy actually continue to improve after therapy ends—presumably because the understanding they gain is global, not targeted to encapsulated, one-time problems.” Read More
Amy Jones 8/2/11 Amy Jones 8/2/11 september 11th studies give rise to humility and reassessment in trauma treatment Read More
Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11 Peter Kramer contributes to the antidepressant argument in The New York Times Read More
Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11 The New York Times looks at what’s good about “telepsychiatry”: a 40-year-old question? Read More
Amy Jones 7/1/11 Amy Jones 7/1/11 identity management: the new york times magazine explores the dilemma of a therapist when a client’s sexual identity and religious beliefs conflict Read More
Amy Jones 6/1/11 Amy Jones 6/1/11 the New York Times reports on the emerging difficulty of finding a male psychotherapist Read More
Amy Jones 3/21/11 Amy Jones 3/21/11 “They procrastinate because they have no external authority figure demanding that they write,” he says. “Often I explain to the patient that there is an authority figure he’s answerable to, but it’s not human. It’s Time itself that’s passing inexorably. That’s why they call it Father Time. Every time you procrastinate or waste time, you’re defying this authority figure.” Procrastination, he says, is a “spurious form of immortality,” the ego’s way of claiming that it has all the time in the world; writing, by extension, is a kind of death. He gives procrastinators a tool he calls the Arbitrary Use of Time Moment, which asks them to sit in front of their computers for a fixed amount of time each day. “You say, ‘I’m surrendering myself to the archetypal Father, Chronos,’ ” he says. ‘I’m surrendering to him because he has hegemony over me.’ -Barry Michels on procrastination and writing Read More
Amy Jones 3/21/11 Amy Jones 3/21/11 article on creativity, therapy and the shadow in the New Yorker Read More