Best books about psychotherapy according to redditors
We found 231 Reddit comments discussing the best books about psychotherapy. We ranked the 121 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 231 Reddit comments discussing the best books about psychotherapy. We ranked the 121 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Not sure how he actually got the card into the orange, other than planting it there beforehand. However, magicians use subconscious cues in their words to sort of "plant" thoughts into their subject's heads. It's called neuro-linguistic programming. My guess is that Blaine used NLP to plant the 9 of Hearts into Ford's mind. Ford assumed his selection of that specific card was random or unique, when Blaine led him to select that card off camera. Check this out..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjC0UX_Q0Uw
Also, if you're interested in learning more about NLP, get this incredible book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Structure-Magic-Vol-Language/dp/0831400447
Hey, I am so glad you are asking for help with this. It is an area that most med students struggle with, but not many are conscientious enough to ask for help. We really need more doctors in all specialties who can talk to patients comfortably about psychiatric issues, rather than merely calling a psych consult because "patient is tearful"
-I try to let the patient tell me his or her story in the way that feels most natural to them, so I try to aim for at least 5 min of them explaining HPI before interrupting them. That is usually enough to convey the gist of why they are here, but not so long that you get derailed. You'll have to be flexible here - they will give you their history all out of order. It is helpful to have a preprinted template on hand, so you can jot notes and revisit later.
-I usually start my interviews with a bit of social history rather than delving into chief complaint or HPI. It's not how we are taught to do it in med school, but it seems to feel more comfortable for patients when their doctor knows more about their background. Depends on the context of the interview. If you're in the psych emergency room, you may need to be more concise here than you might on say, inpatient psych or consult service.
-Child cases are tricky, but with practice, you'll get the hang of asking parents to step out of the room. There are several lines you might practice using, but as you're asking the parent to leave, emphasize that you will be sure to leave plenty of time at the end of the interview to come together as a group to discuss the treatment plan and answer any questions they might have. Some children don't want to be left alone at all, and that is ok. I really try to get at least a few sentences out of them at each session though, rather than letting the parent do all the talking.
-This book by Daniel Carlat was very helpful to me as an intern. I received a copy of this book as a senior resident, and wish I had gotten ahold of it sooner.
-Keep practicing your interviews. Remember that you will not hurt patients by talking to them. It can often be therapeutic for a patient to simply feel that another human being understands them. Just remember not to butt in during an attending or senior's interview, and wait until they turn to you and ask if you have additional questions for the patient. Remember that you are a valuable member of the team! I found med students useful for so much more than scutwork during residency.
Best of luck to you in your studies, and if you choose to go into psych, or have any other questions at all, please feel free to PM me!
Ask them questions to make them think, such as:
PSA: Separate from this fellow's family history, he is describing an unresolved BPM II experience. Depression, anxiety, depersonalization, suicidal thoughts, and malaise can all stem from such an experience, whether or not you have a family history of mental health issues.
To learn more about the BPM model of the LSD experience get yourself a copy of LSD Psychotherapy by Dr. Stan Grof. The feeling of "infinite moment" and "no escape" are very typical of the BPM II stage of an acid trip, though with the help of a guide or trained psychedelic therapist, there is an escape, and it is 100x as liberating as this guy's unfortunate experience was debilitating.
Very nice of them. Interesting demonstration of how much shaving is done by the adaptive unconscious rather than the conscious part of the mind: thus the long learning curve to allow old AU to learn the drill. (More info in the fascinating book Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, by Timothy Wilson.)
From a clinical psychologist's perspective - affect is what we can observe in another person, while mood/emotion is what the person reports that they're feeling (and which a third party can't directly observe).
For example, if a person says that he feels fine, but I observe him to be fidgeting and talking really fast, I'd say "he reported an 'ok' mood, but presented with anxious affect."
EDIT: I'm sorry that I forgot to include a source! There are a few conflicting definitions out there, but this is the definition that we used in my program (a scientist-practitioner clinical psychology phd program), as well as at all of the clinical sites I've ever worked at (medical centers, VA hospitals, private practice). This definition is outlined by Trzepacz & Baker (1993) in chapter 3 of The Psychiatric Mental Status Examination. (If you search for "affect," you should be able to read chapter 3 in its entirety.)
The Clinician's Thesaurus is another good resource. The pdf is available here - take a look at the first page of chapter 10, on page 132 (153 of the pdf).
I use this and find it helpful
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Adult-Psychotherapy-Treatment-Planner/dp/111806786X/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=treatment+plans+and+interventions+for+depression+and+anxiety&qid=1564866269&s=gateway&sprefix=treatment+pla&sr=8-2
I found the following book to be really useful on integration; almost the entirety of the last third of the book is dedicated to integration.
Another reddit user on this forum, 'liquidrome' has made some interesting points about integration; namely the idea that in his view one of the most potent methods of integration is to 'go for a long walk in a forest, around a lake, and to listen to the same music playlist I used for the session. This evokes the material from the session again, and integrates it into normal waking consciousness. Often this walk will also bring up more feelings and continue the healing process — sometimes more powerfully than the session itself.' Here's a [link] (https://www.reddit.com/r/mdmatherapy/comments/d1d861/getting_worse_after_taking_mdma/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) to one of his comments on a post where he explains this in a little more detail (it's his second comment on the post) . I've read a few of his posts and comments and whilst I may disagree with some of his views on maps, he has undergone 100s of psychedelic therapy sessions so I personally value his opinion highly in this area even though it doesn't come from a book. I personally haven't tried this method yet and as I haven't had a session since I came across it but I intend to try it following my next session.
Here are a couple of other books I've found super useful in general for psychedelic therapy.
They also talk about integration, although integration isn't a main focus:
[Psychedelic psychotherapy] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0963009656/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_1jUDDbX3B0XE3) - I made a post about it here. Honestly one of the most useful books I've read in my life. It's very much a practical guide to me on to how use psychedelics to heal from trauma, rather than many other books in the arena that appear to focus on why psydhclics can heal from trauma.
Internal family systems - I'm reading this book at the moment, and being someone who doesn't have a background in psychology its been super useful so far for understanding my mental landscapes, in a way that a layman like me can understand. This in turn I feel will help me to navigate my defences and other elements and psychological concepts that come up in my experience, and thus help me to heal efficiently and integrate effectively.
Hope something in this post is of help. Good luck on your healing journey :)
If you would really like to learn more on the subject, LSD Psychotherapy by S. Grof is probably the single best resource available for the thereputic use of LSD. Grof has done so much extensive research in this area that Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD, considered Grof the godfather of LSD.
The short answer to your question: set and setting. There's always going to be a possibility of a bad trip no matter what, but that can be minimized by having a positive and prepared mindset followed by a comfortable setting for the experience. A positive and prepared mindset meaning: knowing what to expect, where you are going to be, who you are going to be with, etc. Plan your trip out ahead of time and stick to the plan, if at all possible. More importantly, only trip if you feel like you are 100% ready. Psychedelics tend to magnify all of your senses, thoughts and feelings at the time, even latent ones.
My perspective on drugs: I like them. I think they can be valuable tools and provide wonderful experiences.
I currently have a good reading list I'm working through for a planned project that will require a lot of LSD. I'm interested in LSD and MDMA psychotherapy to help solve some deep-seated problems (you have no idea how far from normal I am) and for general self-improvement. Fascinating subject, particularly the works by Stanislav Grof.
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys: http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeutic/dp/1594774021
LSD Psychotherapy: Exploring the Frontiers of the Hidden Mind
http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Healing-Potential-Psychedelic-Medicine/dp/0979862205
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious
http://www.amazon.com/LSD-Numinous-Groundbreaking-Psychedelic-Unconscious/dp/1594772827
Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures
http://www.amazon.com/Tripping-Anthology-True-Life-Psychedelic-Adventures/dp/0140195742
The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell
http://www.amazon.com/The-Doors-Perception-Thinking-Classics/dp/1907590099
Through the Gateway of the Heart (about MDMA)
http://www.maps.org/gateway/
Thanatos To Eros, 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration
http://www.maps.org/t2e/
Had to do a lot of searching and reading just to find what was worth reading, avoiding pseudoscience and quasi-religion. Oi, this is going to be a lot of work, but that's probably what it will take to sort out the trainwreck of my mind.
I agree with everything said in this thread, but to add some things:
I strongly recommend a good particle physics course. If you can think about the basic things in our field automatically in terms of Feynman diagrams and you know the rules of certain force interactions (everything but gravity being important, with EM and Weak force interactions slightly more important than strong in our field), I've found that helps me to understand the empirical/applied stuff a lot better.
I would seek to shadow as many medical physicists from as many different specialties as possible. It'll let you decide if you really want to be/what specifically you want to do in our field, as well as look good on any resume. I'd shoot for at least one shadowing session of clinical physicists in radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, and diagnostic imaging each, as well as a health physicist, and an undergrad internship at a company like Varian or Elekta (look to the AAPM for undergrad opportunities/funding). Some physicists appreciate teaching people while others don't, so don't give up if you're turned down on a cold call, but don't cold call the same person twice.
As a bonus, read Kahn, Attix, and Hall, if you have time. For Nuclear Med, I'd recommend Cherry, and for Diagnostic Imaging I'd recommend Bushburg. Definitely start with Kahn as it is the easiest to digest IMO. I'm sure others have book recommendations as well. Though, I wouldn't bother until you've at least taken your entry level classical mechanics and E&M courses, even then a lot wont click until you've taken Quantum 1.
Edit: oh also experience in programming will help. Matlab and/or python seem to be base in our field, though C++ cant hurt.
I've challenged redditors here and on many other subs with this : Name one teen rehab or corrective residential facility that has never had a serious reputation for, or history of abuse. No one can name one it seems.
If I am being asked to help, the best I can do, is unconventional and I do not expect everyone to approve or whatever but here goes.
I wandered randomly into meeting a high level hypnotist who tranced out artists and writers for a living, allegedly helping them with the creative flow or some such thing.
He put me in a trance without my desire or consent one day, and it spurred me on to study hypnosis, being fascinated that someone could do that.
There are more than a few schools/genres of hypnosis. 99% of them were designed to attempt to help people, by people looking to help people.
I ended up reading lots and lots about therapy, as many of the hypno superstars were also allegly great therapists.
I ended up helping myself a whole lot, just from studying proper therapy books, that aren't some pop star new age trendy drivel. It can be hard to tell what to read. Where should one look?
Type hypnosis into an amazon books search. Sort by rating. Some of these books are ex$pen$ive.
Neuro Linguistic Programming is a deep school of trance induction.
Put that into google and sort by rating.
Type it into youtube. I see 65,000 videos when I sort by rating.
If you have a close friend, invite them into your study project, or even if not a close friend, someone you feel is truly good hearted and someone you can trust. Many books suggest finding a partner to go back and forth with. I've had hypnosis fights with the guy I know who told me about some books.
Don't trip out on trying to memorize or keep all the details of everything you read. Just get a few books and leave them around. Just casually browse that stuff if you don't feel like tackling a whole book at once and trying to ''learn'' it all. It;s a skill, like playing pool, or rock climbing. Just dabble around different books casually. I am sure that those two will be a great start.
If you want therapy in your life, getting to know what kinds there are out there is a good start. Many of the books are quite entertaining and fun, for clinical psychology books. The two I linked will make you laugh.
I think everyone should study hypnosis in elementary school, so it is more easily recognized when authorities, the media, and schools use it on people.
You start seeing and hearing politicians in a whole new way.
It tended to be invented for good, but is used to do bad things, as this sub knows very well. Studying and using what you read can help unravel and reframe experiences that can use some clarity and some that could use some fuzziness. If you want to be a great therapist to yourself,and want top take it seriously, you can do it if you choose to. Read enough books, and bet you can get hired as a counselor somewhere, when you tell them what you've read.
You'll be more helpful to yourself and to your friends and strangers if you just want to dabble.
I like this article. The author is a psychologist who specializes in personality disorders; she also has a book called Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations. It is written for therapists, not us, but I've found it really helpful in understanding my issues... maybe because it's easier to read about it in the third person. She has a very compassionate view of PDs in general.
One normal part of the psychedelic experience is that your normal, superficial, routine concept of your "self", your "ego" melts away. What arises in its place is very unique to the individual but it should be understood as being a manifestation of the person's subconscious.
In the process of the individual ego melting away a person will often look at their own arms and see them ageing before their eyes, looking in the mirror feels like looking at a stranger, and your thoughts become increasingly distant and begin to feel as though they're not your own. Your body feels as though it is being crushed under the earth, thrown around by the waves of the sea, and obliterated to atoms. Following this one typically experiences a period of pure transcendence of ego or selfhood, which, depending on how well one psychologically tolerates this state, can be as short as a click of the fingers or as long as the time taken to eat a meal.
After this, the experience of ego or selfhood that takes form into the peak of the LSD experience is what Stanislav Grof, the renowned LSD researcher, describes as perinatal and transpersonal experiences which can include regressing into ones' past lives, an identification with the cosmos or nature, or with animals, spirits, etc., and one's body begins to appear to oneself in any of a myriad potential forms. People often report the sensation of phantom body parts which may actually appear to the person when one looks at them. The appearance of other people begins to shift, and your mind's subconscious projections begin to manifest in how you actually see people and things in the real world. Faces and bodies become horribly grotesque and distorted with the appearance of other people, objects and animals. This can stabilise to a less-grotesque form if one is able to abide calmly in the state, but it can also turn into an absolute nightmare to the uninitiated or those without an appropriate guide or sitter.
As the drug starts to wear off, the mind feels itself re-entering the normal world and this forms what's often seen as the "rebirth" aspect of the psychedelic experience, where one re-enters the human world with the insights into the mind gained during the experience.
There's a lot more to it than this, but given that people like Grof have written entire textbooks attempting to describe the nature of the psychedelic experience and its therapeutic value, it's not really possible to describe a trip in a way that does it justice like this.
Okay then at least both of you buy and read this book. I can't stress enough how important it is for you two to be on the same team. Those texts do not indicate that you are moving in a positive direction in your marriage. Please work on that first.
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Person-Therapists-View-Psychotherapy/dp/039575531X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541475449&sr=8-1&keywords=on+becoming+a+person
. The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates
I love these series. They have a children and adolescents, progress notes and homework guides. I highly recommend them
Until more recently, it wasn't common to find books/articles on "how to do" psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The knowledge of how to perform the therapy came from the therapist's training analysis, which, going back to Freud, used to be the only requirement for becoming a psychoanalyst (cf. The question of Lay Analysis by Freud). However, there are now some "psychodynamic" therapies that provide a "how to" look at therapy using psychoanalytic principles. Two that I am familiar with are Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy or ISTDP and Brief Dynamic Therapywhich is a little better in my opinion. Glen Gabbard, who I like a lot, has also written a text that lays out some of the basics of psychotherapy from an analytic perspective.
Speaking of Gabbard, I highly recommend his text Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. It provides an overview of some of the major psychoanalytic theories (drive, ego, object, self). Unfortunately he doesn't cover Lacan, and briefly touches on intersubjectivity. Another book in this vein (without the diagnostic applications) is Freud and Beyond by Stephen Mitchell and Margaret Black. Not to diminish Dr. Black, but Stephen Mitchell is really great. I recommend anything by him, especially Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis and Relationality.
Finally, any recommendation on contemporary American psychoanalytic writing would be incomplete without mentioning Thomas Ogden, especially The Matrix of the Mind and The Primitive Edge of Experience. His more recent works are great as well, but a little more nebulous and might be less applicable to beginning psychoanalytic work.
Oh, and I can't help but recommend this little book by Owen Renik Practical Psychoanalysis. Renik is great, and I really enjoy is work, especially his thinking on "getting real in psychoanalysis." Though he is far from the traditional views of analytic neutrality and abstinence.
I promise I'll give some specific recommendations at the end.
So, actually being able to do DBT and call it DBT is involved and fairly difficult. DBT folks (at least the bigwigs) are really big on treatment fidelity, which means faithfully reproducing what has been shown to work in their outcome research, which means a lot of resources. I'm not sure where you work and what resources you have available, but Linehan herself states that if you're not running skill groups in addition to individual therapy, along with having a treatment team for consultation, then you're not actually doing DBT. I've noticed that without all of these components present they prefer to call it "DBT-informed CBT." Just putting all of that out there for informational purposes.
That being said, you can most certainly integrate DBT concepts and techniques into your individual work, if that's what you do. It's just that there are a TON of specific skills and worksheets to choose from. It's a really involved therapy. There are many books available, but here are the ones that I've personally found useful in individual therapy and they seem to generally get favorable reviews:
DBT® Skills Training Manual, Second Edition is straight from the source. Tons of information and reproducible handouts...almost overwhelming.
DBT Made Simple is a really good, simple (obviously) primer on basic DBT philosophies and techniques to get you started in individual work.
Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide is really good. More in-depth than the Made Simple book and really gives a solid understanding of what to do in session.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook is a solid DBT-based self-help workbook. I have recommended it to several clients and it's usually connected each time. It's a handy way for the client to think about concepts in-between sessions without it feeling like "homework" and it helps as a roadmap for therapy. Kind of acts as a little skill trainer in place of the group (I know, still not the same) since there's not enough time to focus on all of the skills in individual therapy alone. It actually works well for emotionally dysregulated clients in general, regardless of what the primary diagnosis is.
There's also a video of Marsha Linehan demonstrating DBT in session on psychotherapy.net that you may find useful. It offers CE credits as well.
Psychedelic therapy
The "Why" Book: Pollan's How to Change Your Mind
The "What" Book: MAPS's A Manual for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of PTSD (alternatives would be this treatment protocol from Phase 2 MDMA trials and Grof's LSD Psychotherapy)
The "How" Book: R. Coleman's Psychedelic Psychotherapy: A User-friendly Guide for Psychedelic Drug-assisted Psychotherapy (the runner up would be Fadiman's The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide)
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X-posted from this post on the EA forum: Cash prizes for the best arguments against psychedelics being an EA cause area
This book tells you how self-esteem works. It's worth the read or the sample if you have a kindle.
Got to meet him at his most recent book signing for this, which explains and illustrates through art in relatively simple terms Grof's contributions to the structure of the psyche (transpersonal and perinatal psychology).
Edit: even more scientific is LSD Psychotherapy, where summarizes the research that has been done and explains in detail his thousands of hours of experience sitting in LSD assisted psychotherapy sessions.
https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-Psychotherapy-Worlds-Getting/dp/0062506617
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/487/em-from-em-br-we-ve-had-a-hundred-years-of-psychotherapy-and-the-world-s-getting-worse
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JK9BAY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_haPNBbFWQKDKK ) is a good place to start, if your issues opening up stem from feeling like you don't have anything interesting to contribute (my problem).
The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1622032519/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0dPNBbDJSWP0N ) is a bit girly, but it's good for making sure you know what you actually want, so you can prioritize it more in your life. Enthusiasm about your day-to-day and long-term goals makes it easier to connect with people.
The thing that helped the most, though, was finding my (buzz-word alert!) "tribe". I've more or less curated a group of friends based on my interests - we may not all share the same world view but our shared hobbies time us together. It's taken time, but we're all comfortable enough with each other to open up about some things. I still have to pick my audience when I want to confide something, but knowing that we've got a solid foundation makes it easier to be authentic.
You sound EXACTLY like me. It's always hard to live like we do, and I'll give you some book recommendations, but I want to give you some pointers too that have basically kept me alive.
I saw so many therapists who did next to nothing for me. I ended up committing myself to a 100% voluntary psychiatric hospital. Everyone was basically in the same boat; we weren't crazy but we weren't healthy either. The treatment plan that they gave us was based on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, which is I guess somewhat new. It's meant for borderline personality disorder, but as someone who has PTSD, general anxiety, and clinical depression, I would HIGHLY recommend any books or workbooks or videos you can find on it. I like it because it helps you treat yourself rather than making you dependent on therapists, etc. It's all about reshaping the way you think and the way you handle certain situations. It's the best thing I've ever found that helps (and I spent 15 years in near-useless therapy before that!)
I also found that reading people's memoirs and even some fiction books really helped as well because they reminded me that I wasn't alone. See, it's hard with mental health because it's not like any other "diseases" that you can see. I think we often feel alone because it's so hard to tell when somebody is like us since depression and anxiety aren't conditions that are readily visible to the human eye. It's a sneaky illness that creeps up on you like a parasite and getting it to go away is a process, but it's still possible.
Just think about any positive thing you can, and don't let yourself find cons to it. There may always be negative aspects to things, but there are almost always pros as well. No matter how you feel, there's always somebody out there who could use your help. If you're feeling really bad, try volunteer work. It helps me sometimes. Also try going outside your comfort zone with things. Give yourself a thrill and discover something new that you can enjoy. I know it's hard to get the motivation or energy to do anything like that when you're depressed, but you have to force yourself. (It's called "opposite to emotion action" in DBT. Life saver.)
Anyway, here are those book recommendations:
A personal favorite author of mine is Douglas Adams. I'd recommend the Salmon of Doubt. No particular reason, he's just funny and it's nice to get your mind off things sometimes.
I hope you feel better. I really really do :-)
Feel free to PM me with questions.
So the first book we had in mind, unless anyone would like to suggest another book is Hillman and Ventura's We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse. I've mentioned it many times here and posted an excerpt that I found online. The book only has three parts and no chapters in its 240 pages, but it is a fairly quick read as it is largely dialogue. We would have to decide where to cut off each post, maybe 10-20 pages at a time. We could try this one and see how it goes. At some point I'd like to tackle the entirety of Psychological Types, but that would be a big undertaking. I did summarize chapter 6 a while ago and intend to do more, as I think more people should be exposed to the rest of the book, rather than just chapter 10.
The short answer is yes, it could really help. However the long answer is: it's complicated--especially for someone in your situation.
To get the best effect you shouldn't be on certain medications. Many meds will dull a psychedelic experience. Some mix badly and can make you feel very sick. It's tough to know how you will respond.
The tricky part is that off your meds, you are more susceptible to mania/depression anxiety, etc., which itself might complicate your trip.
In an alternate reality someone like you should be evaluated by a doctor who can determine what meds you are taking may interfere, or should be removed due to improvements from the LSD, and work with you to step down. You should have counseling before you trip, a trained professional present to guide you, and counseling sessions in between. You should have several trips at building intensity over the course of several weeks or months.
Psychedelics are a tool, a catalyst, a teacher. But you have to do the inner work. The learning and the healing. That's why sick people need a program of healing, therapy, diet/exercise, carefully controlled meds, etc to get the most out of psychedelic medicines.
This is the safe way to do psychedelic therapy with people with pre existing mental illness and a history of medication.
I treated my bipolar with psychedelics and it helped a lot, but I wish I had more guidance and structure. Doing it on your own might really help you, but it also might not.
My advice is if you are interested, go to Amazon and look up some books. Do research. You have to be your own shaman and psychiatrist with this stuff, so learn as much as you can.
LSD Psychotherapy https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0979862205/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506105089&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=lsd+psychotherapy&dpPl=1&dpID=512SI51Jk3L&ref=plSrch
Psychedelic Healing https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594772509/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_15?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VZ888GJ11QSTBM8B9MTA
Acid Test https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0147516374/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_22?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ABDPQHSAZR5QJA1A02Q0
A Really Good Day is about microdosing https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0451494091/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=H660FJWZ0YXV9CXPRYRW
Hope this helps.
Journey through Genius - The Great Theorems of Mathematics - the beauty and elegance of the theorems he goes through is overwhelming. I read it in high school, and I remember having a strong, emotional reaction to some of them. It seems strange so many years later, but I think it's the only book that's ever made me cry. YMMV
Strangers to Ourselves is about how our unconscious shapes who we are despite what our conscious mind realizes/processes/understands.
I find it admirable that you are seeking understanding of AGP, since most who have it don't want to understand it as being AGP. Since reading Anne Lawrence's book this past May, I've done a deep dive into the sexology on this and can suggest some reading material. If you have the money for the hard copies of these books, I highly recommend obtaining them because taking notes in a physical book is a much better way of learning and engaging with a text. This is an orientation that can drastically alter your life trajectory, so it is worthwhile to take the study of it seriously so that you may make truly informed decisions. The three books I will be recommending are listed in order from best through third-best. They are all excellent and important for different reasons.
Men Trapped in Men's Bodies, by Anne Lawrence
https://surveyanon.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/men-trapped-in-mens-bodies_book.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Trapped-Mens-Bodies-Autogynephilic-Transsexualism/dp/1461451817
Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress, by Magnus Hirschfeld . Translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash
https://www.amazon.com/Transvestites-New-Concepts-Human-Sexuality/dp/0879756659
Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior, by Richard F. Docter
https://www.amazon.com/Transvestites-Transsexuals-Cross-Gender-Perspectives-Sexuality/dp/0306428784
The first two books listed above give the best overview of the phenomenon and contain plentiful first-person narratives that impart the flavor and texture of the orientation. I found it particularly interesting to see how AGP played out in a different cultural context(100 years ago) by reading Hirschfeld's book. The men fetishize different things because of their cultural context, but the general phenomenon is the same. The third book goes into detail about identity, cross-sex identity formation, and the different stages in the process of MtF spectrum phenomena. This book is particularly useful if you want an understanding of how engaging with different types of behaviors over time can lead to different outcomes. In particular, it stresses the correlation between engaging in interpersonal aspects of the orientation such as using a feminine name or presenting as fully female in social situations and the subsequent development of a feminine gender identity and increased dysphoria. Based on what I've learned from these books, I have decided to preferentially engage with primarily transvestic AGP and secondarily behavioral AGP with the goal of taking it slow and hopefully never developing a cross-sex GI as well as minimizing dysphoria. I am avoiding anatomical and physiologic imaginations, which is easy as I lack much imagination. This is to mitigate body-based dysphoria and hopefully avoid HRT. Above all, I am avoiding the interpersonal aspects of AGP because the evidence suggests that being treated as a woman socially through a feminine name and full feminine presentation is the fast-track to having the feminine identity gain control over the identity system. I am trying to stay a transvestite and identify as such, since transitioning will hurt my dating chances with women, make me physically weaker, and I will never(ever) pass since I'm currently a 6'4" broad-shouldered muscular man. I feel safer physically having muscles, and I do not want to give up the benefits of being treated as male. My situation aside, I want to also mention a couple studies by Kevin Hsu which I found highly informative.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266581880_The_Psychometric_Structure_of_Items_Assessing_Autogynephilia
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308036975_Sexual_Arousal_Patterns_of_Autogynephilic_Male_Cross-Dressers
The first one is fantastic, I wish there were more like it. You can answer the survey questions in the appendix and compare yourself to the study cohort to see where you rank in comparison. This study also shows the correlations between different types of AGP and gender dysphoria, among other things. They found that Interpersonal AGP was most highly correlated with gender dysphoria, which is in alignment with Docter's 1988 book which I linked above. Overall, they found that it is the total level of AGP that often matters more than which subtypes of AGP a person exhibits.
I hope someone finds this post informative or helpful. I have a wish to make all this information more accessible and digestible to fellow AGP males who are trying to understand who they are and what is the best course of action for them to take. Since AGP makes one's place on the MtF spectrum constantly subject to change, its important to know what actions, behaviors, and decisions are correlated with what types of outcomes. The science is still in its infancy, but we have some strong clues to go off of.
The treatment planner books are great for helping with this. Here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Adult-Psychotherapy-Treatment-Planner/dp/111806786X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479863730&sr=8-1&keywords=treatment+planner
> Array parts is the Parent, Adult and Child stuff right?
Yep, that's the array. These are the books I read, in order of liking
Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
https://www.amazon.com/Scripts-People-Live-Transactional-Analysis/dp/0802132103/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1554342946&sr=1-1
TA Today
https://www.amazon.com/Ta-Today-Introduction-Transactional-Analysis/dp/1870244028
Born to Win (awful name, but I liked the Gestalt angle)
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Win-Transactional-Analysis-Experiments/dp/0201590441/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7YJ1ME1A477MM40Y24XH
I'm Ok - You're OK (a classic, but worst of them all)
https://www.amazon.com/Im-OK-Youre-OK-Thomas-Harris/dp/0060724277/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SV98QTFFDQEPNXJT0KZ0
TBH, I had a hard time really getting into Transactional Analysis once I understood the basics 1) it got really repetitive 2) I had a hard time mapping it to my experience 3) I'm just not that interested in other people :|
> I feel like they are kind of merged. Does this make sense?
Makes total sense. I've had a few therapists try different ego state work on me and we never got anywhere. Parts? I don't have parts. I have... me. Finally one of them explained a PD like schizoid doesn't have an cohesive sense of self + without that solid, "centered" stance, it's hard to grasp the parts/whole relationship between parts. Or something like that. In the end, we gave up. Goes back to object relations, if you want a deep dive into all things schizoid.
FWIW, in TA terms I'm almost all Adult with a little Parent (the crappy parts of my mom). Have yet to find much child in there which is incredibly schizoid of me.
And last but not the least;
If you find this interesting, David Loy really dissects sunyata, and connects it with what he views logic as part of the Western problem.
http://www.amazon.com/Lack-Transcendence-Psychotherapy-Existentialism-Buddhism/dp/1573927201
This is a really big topic and, judging by your post history, you're probably just asking sarcastically or trolling.
Having said that, here's two resources that might be good for others to read here as well.
Actually the whole self-vs-other tf is I think the most interesting category to split up by as I think it very much implies what Blanchard called an "erotic targeting location error": our sexual interests are turned inward eventually building a paraphilic interest to turn our own bodies into what we want to fuck. A strong case for that is made by Lawrence in a book I finished recently who eventually attributes the desire of some MtF transsexuals to change their body to autogynephilia i.e. the desire of oneself as a woman. She also mentions in passing that this example is part of a class of paraphilias and that these interests can arise and eventually compete with other sexual/fetishistic interests - which would fit the bill for explaining some part of self-TFing.... Also you've reminded me that I wanted to make a thread about this....meh >_>
Now get back to the survey >:(
I think you need to get a reaity check as well.
Most people in the world are self interested.
If you don't want to talk to someone, don't pick up the phone.
Thats the regular behaviour of most people.
I hope that during the process of nofap you are able to recognise that you are not assertive enough. And you can work on it.
Remember you don't need a woman to complete you.
If you are suffering from any low self-esteem, and you want to do something about it. I highly recommend you taking a read of The Six Pillars of Self Esteem
> Como é que seria possível fazer o despiste de tudo isto com apenas uma secção? Fazer mil e um testes? Há coisas que é impossível de testar. A conversa apesar de ser um método primitivo é o melhor para despistar todas essas opções.
Bem visto, mas assumo que pela conversa já tinha chegado à conclusão de que era problema da nutrição, e no entanto encorajava a que não se desse logo essa informação ao paciente.
Inclusive no Frogs Into Princes ou noutro livro dos mesmos autores (li a coleção toda, a memória pode estar a falhar) é lançado o aviso a quem quiser praticar NLP que é suposto funcionar numa consulta, e partir daí as restantes consultas são apenas de reforço e vigilância face à primeira, e são muito ocasionais relativamente à terapia tradicional, o que pode ir contra os objectivos da maioria dos profissionais.
Não tenho nada contra psicólogos, mas não é uma área fácil. Já o The Psycopath Test avisa de todos os perigos à volta do diagnostico psicologico e de como pode destruir vidas. Para além disso também já tive as minhas experiências. Concordo com a psicologia sobretudo quando aliada a uma avaliação psiquiatrica (e mesmo assim varia consoante o caso), por si só tenho certas dúvidas, talvez com o aparte das especializações que mencionei.
Try Frogs into PRINCES
Edit: And watch Derren Brown on you tube.
On Becoming a Person
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
MAPS and all the research they've been conducting for years disagree with you. Stanislav Grof and his decades of practice disagree as well.
You're being downvoted for a reason, and that reason is that you're wrong.
I feel like most psychiatrists think psychodynamically, but prescribe therapy cognitive-behaviorally. I recommend, Brief Dynamic Therapy by Hanna Levenson. This helped me conceptualize maladaptive behavior in a way that really fit my own worldview. It's dynamic theory but has many CBT components, and it's super short.
Right now I'm reading Persuasion in Healing. It's not exactly what you're asking for but it gives an interesting history of conceptualizing the healer and their role in the relationship.
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy Wilson is personally one of my favorites
Anything by Malcolm Gladwell (I really enjoyed Blink)
Anything by Robert Cialdini (He was my social psychology professor and one of my favorite authors / public speakers)
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude M. Steele (Who basically uncovered stereotype threat research)
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Phillip Zimbaro (famous for the Stanford prison experiment)
Older books:
Mindfulness by Ellen Langer (about automatic processes and how mindless we can be)
When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken, & Schachter (To understand how cults work, a group of researchers infiltrate a join a cult. Mainly about cognitive dissonance but details what happens to a cult when the world doesn't end like predicted)
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram if you want to know all about the Milgram experiments
Sorry that is all that comes to mind now. . . (edited for formatting)
Amazon link.
If you do not have much experience with psychiatric interview, I highly reccomend this book.
And to write awesome reports you should use this.
you should read this book https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-Psychotherapy-Worlds-Getting/dp/0062506617
Here is the desktop version of your link
I see, how interesting. I have this theory that low self-esteem is a physical thing, it's just very body-focused, and almost nothing else can make up for it. I feel like it's stored in the body, at least. In the gut or something. IDK, low self-esteem is just so hard to fix. There's arguably an entire personality disorder (narcissistic personality disorder) aimed at warding it off.
When I get it all figured out, I'll let you know, but in the meantime I highly recommend The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. You can find it here as well.
It changed my life forever.
Well, people have done some research on this in animals. I'm just going by memory from years ago here, but I know that if you raise some aquarium fish - I think it was guppies - in male-only groups from birth, then when they enter sexual maturity they'll start having sex with each other (there are interesting theories about why this happens as well). Then, if you move them to or add females, yes, most of them will start having sex with the females instead, but a large minority will refuse to do so, having seemingly been turned permanently gay. But raise them among females and that doesn't happen. I do also remember reading about similar problems breeders of e.g. cattle and horses were having with their bulls/steers, where they - raised without contact with the females - would sometimes refuse to have sex with them when paired up for mating.
So, we can fairly confidently conclude that the conditions of the organism when (or leading up to when) it reaches sexual maturity plays a role in establishing for it what proper sexual behaviour is.
How much this translates to humans though is hard to say. Human sexuality (especially in males, who seem far more fixed in their preferences when established) is a really weird topic that I really wish I knew more about. It does seem to be a more and more relevant topic as well, in the sense that it would help mitigate a lot of unnecessary suffering if we knew what caused people to develop sexual preferences (unchangeable once established) that turn out to be harmful to them. I'm reminded of reading Men Trapped in Men's Bodies, personal accounts from autogynephilic transsexuals, which is essentially a heterosexual man attracted to women who is so aroused by the idea of themselves as a woman that they feel compelled to turn themselves into one, and how the author (herself one) concludes that the only treatment for this condition - that causes them a lot of confusion and suffering - is transitioning. But if we could figure out what causes it to develop and prevent it, this suffering could be prevented. So there is, I think, moral and ethical incentive to understand this subject better, even if there might not be commercial benefit in it.
Here is the mobile version of your link
Have you read anything by Anne Lawrence? You may find Men Trapped In Men's Bodies of interest.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1870244028?pc_redir=1398243272&robot_redir=1
Not a how to be social book but does explain interactions really well and how they work. A lot of books on this subject are aimed a self help and terrible, this is a legitimate source of theory and really great. Check out Drama Triangles on TA via Wikipedia for an example
I know you said you are interested in diagnostic imaging, so this is less relevant.
For radiation therapy the two canonical books are maybe:
Khan, The Physics of Radiation Therapy and
Hall's Radiobiology for the Radiologist.
I'm not suggesting Amazon to buy them, just using it as a way to identify which book I am referring to, since Khan for example has this other treatment planning book which is good but not as fundamental. Amazon is trying some weird thing apparently where they want you to "rent" books to your kindle for $100+, which seems like a terrible deal.
This book comes to mind: "We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse"
> The doctors say it triggered...
That's possible. Triggering is a possible effect of consciousness expansion. Then some things emerge from sub consciousness and stay in half-consciousness affecting a person. It's like driving a car, you can kill many people, but still a car can be useful.
When I first took mushrooms it was on a street with other people and I freaked out so much I was running around and shouting, my friends were convinced I am crazy. I also went to the hospital but by that time shrooms let me go )))
So that's why I am saying "set and setting" is super important, these are not party drugs. They will show you the fake game that you are playing, and if you don't understand why you are playing and love yourself no matter what you can reject it and auto regulate it by falling in denial. Kind of a general description of crazy people.
Anyway the power is there, so my advice is
HTH ;)
> As for "ridiculous," I'm using it to mean "absurd," in a positive sense (as does the Doctor - see "The universe is big, it's vast and complicated, and ridiculous.
That is not how you were using the word. You used it with a definite note of contempt. You used it to indicate that he was beneath consideration and as a justification for excluding the Doctor's regenerations from consideration. The Doctor does ridiculous things not unlike high status people will use self-deprecating humor. It's done to put those around them at ease. It is part of his social mask, not who he is.
>the Doctor's bumbling with Time Lord science
So bumbling that he was able to adapt it in ways that the rest of his people had never considered to save them all. So bumbling that the Sisterhood of Karn, who apparently had access to a higher level of tech than the Time Lords turned to the Doctor as their last, best hope.
>He's established as being unskilled in accurately flying the TARDIS
It's actually been established that the TARDIS has a mind of it's own and will take the Doctor where he needs to be, not necessarily where and when he wants to be (The Doctor's Wife).
We saw the Master regenerate in Utopia. There was no reason whatsoever to believe that he exercised any conscious control of the process.
>being unskilled in regenerating
There is reason to believe that the Doctor has much more control (unconscious control, but still control) over the process than most people believe. If Moffat takes the time to explain why the Doctor has the same face as Lucius Caecilius from "Fires of Pompeii" we are likely to get more on this.*
*There is no evidence that the Doctor ever had any contact with Capaldi's Torchwood character. Occam's Razor suggests that he got the face from someone we actually saw him meet and interact with.
Work on your self esteem. The curse of the cuck is that they get their value from the attention and approval of others, but your intrinsic value (your self worth) is the only thing that matters. When you put people's opinions of you over your own, you're saying that they are more qualified to judge your value than you are.
The irony of this is that when you don't value yourself, no one else has any reason to think you're worth anything. So those approval seeking cucks are setting themselves up for failure, forever.
So I'd start with "The six pillars of self esteem."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Today-New-Introduction-Transactional-Analysis/dp/1870244028
Psychodrama was invented by psychotherapist Jacob Moreno. This looks like a decent compendium if you are into origins:
The Essential Moreno: Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method, and Spontaneity
It was perfected by Friedrich (or Fritz) Perls who trained in Freudian psychoanalysis and was a theater director before he became a therapist. He gave many of the most popular seminars at Esalen for several years and LaVey (who I have not read) could have picked it up almost by osmosis in San Francisco in the late 1960's. At his peak Perls was something of a rock star therapist.
The most direct relation to magic was done by a couple of guys from UC Santa Cruz, Grinder and Bandler.
The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy
The early Neurolinguistic Programming books by Grinder and Bandler are excellent sources for psychodrama, hypnosis, psychotherapy, and magic. It is a pity what happened to them. It's all complete shit now.
It's on Amazon for 36$. I'd say it's good price for a clinical book and it has cool cover. bought it last week, still waiting to arrive to my country.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537334220/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_pSlZCb838CMEM
Meditation and Sport, both are super important for my mental stability. Have at least one person you can open up to. For me it's a former Gf, we speak about everything. Make an active effort to connect with your emotions. When I was younger I couldn't even understand how I was feeling. I think that is the most common problem amongs men. They're plenty of books out there which are pretty beneficial for connecting with your emotions. A good start is this one.
You've to work on yourself constantly, at some point in your life it starts to click.
I'm also studying for Part 1! I've been collecting a few resources over the past couple years in preparation for studying. I've also heard some students swear by WePassed!, so I'm sure the question bank there is worth perusing through.
Here are a few things I think may be of interest to you (or anyone else reading this thread):
I hope this helps! Good luck studying! :D
What you're describing is very similar to what I've grown up with. Try reading this book, it describes our situation very well with hundreds of examples. It made me feel a lot better knowing other people dealt with the same issues I did.
https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Medicine-Indigenous-Entheogens-Expanded/dp/1623173493
I picked up this book, about half way through. It’s a roadmap on holding space for people during journeys.
LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof
Hey :) I think what could possibly help you is if you got an inside to what is LSD doing to your mind. If you would see what went wrong maybe it would help solve the problem. There is a really good book about what is LSD and how it alters your mind. The book is: Stanislav Grof : LSD psychotherapy. (http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Healing-Potential-Psychedelic-Medicine/dp/0979862205)
I really advise you to read it, maybe to even contact Grof if he can help :D Love :)
Nice to see this AMA. I read about NLP many years ago via Frogs into Princes and have been very fascinated by it. How do you find it has most helped you, personally? (I mean as opposed to helping others)
Thanks!