Monthly Archives: February 2012

Remarkable Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists

February 25th, 2012 (No Comments)

This piece was inspired by Seth Godin’s Purple Cow. The central message is that old school marketing methods don’t work any more. In order to achieve growth today, Mr. Godin insists, you’ve got to make a big splash of a particular kind. He calls this Purple Cow. The book is about his take on the [...]

NEI – My Favorite Psychopharmacology School

February 24th, 2012 (No Comments)

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Integrity in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, Bottom Line Relevance

February 22nd, 2012 (No Comments)

This weekend I attended a Saturday morning Ethics Program at the Dallas Center for Psychoanalysis, my old professional home. I remain a “geographic member” of the Center since I now live in Chicago. The focus of the morning’s panel presentation and small group discussion was “Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors” stressing the everyday breaches of optimal [...]

The Goal Structure of Psychotherapy

February 18th, 2012 (No Comments)

First of all I apologize for the length of this posting. But it is great stuff! In a recent session with a relatively new patient I asked about her psychotherapy. She expressed dissatisfaction with the process. I further inquired about the goals of the therapy. She was perplexed, stressing that the therapist explicitly told her [...]