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Useful psychotherapy articles

Psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy that helps people understand thoughts, emotions and patterns of behaviour, and develop healthier ways of coping and relating. It is used for issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and relationship difficulties.

Different approaches exist (for example psychodynamic, integrative, CBT-informed), and a good therapist will explain what they offer and how progress will be reviewed.

Siobhain(Vonnie) Crosbie

Alcohol Effects on Fetal Brain Development: The Case of Cynthia

Posted by Siobhain(Vonnie) Crosbie Psychotherapy

Fetal alcohol syndrome is a well-known and well-described condition in both psychiatric and pediatric literature. Somewhat less known is fetal alcohol effects or FAE. While not generally causing physical many of the characteristics of FAS, FAA has often-similar cognitive and…

Malcolm Scott

'LIKE ANGST': Does It Cut Both Ways?

Posted by Malcolm Scott Psychotherapy

‘Like Angst’: Does it Cut Both Ways? ‘Like anxiety’, or ‘Like angst’[1] as I call it, represents one aspect of the many problems associated with social media anxiety, particularly amongst younger people, but not exclusively in my view. Broadly speaking,…

lawrence Michaels

Dreaming and the REM State

Posted by lawrence Michaels Psychotherapy

People have always been fascinated and mystified by dreaming and fairly recent groundbreaking research by the psychologist Joe Griffin has shed an interesting light on the purpose of dreaming. It has been well documented that we dream when we enter…