Psychotherapy: Knowledge, Critical Thinking, Social Efficacy

date | Knowledge | Critical thinking | Personal efficacy | 8/22/12 | | -Self-confidence is your ability to validate yourself-The way we should think is in a gradient (nuance is your friend)-No one is 100% anything-6(or 7) liquids of history in order:1 beer,2 wine,3 coffee,4 tea,5 booze,6 coke,7 (to be) waterSo most of history we’ve been drunk | -English makes us think in opposites and makes it difficult to be mentally healthy. -rid yourself of moral judgment because we suck at it. -if you judge others, it always gives a reflection of yourself-there is only the need to protect yourself and others | 8/24/12date | * Community of concern- the people you choose to take care of. –biggest thing therapists will ask * If you don’t have a family of choice figure out if it’s your fault. If not get one. * Main cause of psychopathology is lack of contact-that might be physical or just having the focus on you and that energy-teachers should do this too-morphogenetic field is a good learning group environment * We are being meaner with each other because we are disconnecting * We are losing the ability to make contact * Religious structure is being corrupted into the capitalist society * Psychiatrists are partly paid on commission * Knowledge | 1. What ways are you at an advantage? 2. What way are you not at an advantage? 3. What way are you oppressed? 4. What way are you the oppressor?Critical thinking | Personal efficacy | | * You should fit your treatment to you client and not the other way around * We are drugging our children based on TV commercials * Mental illness is generally an American creation/ each therapy is dependent on the culture * Pathologically dysfunctional(abnormal deviant)-> functional(normal)-> hyper functional(abnormal deviant) | | | 8/27/12 | * Most patients only have 7 sittings with a therapist. * Rougirian silence: you don’t ask questions. “I’m wondering what you are thinking” * 50 minute