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Who's Crazy Anyway? — Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About the Risks and Benefits of Psychotherapy, But Didn't Want to
Have to Pay a Therapist to Find Out
Contents 1. Preface: my ax to grind 2. How to use this book 3. Why do you want to begin psychotherapy? 4. What is the problem? How serious? 5. Is this a problem for psychotherapy or can I let time heal? Is the problem just part of the ups and downs of living? 6. Diagnosing yourself; evaluating your symptoms. 7. Symptoms as messages from the unconscious 8. Addiction 9. Sexual addiction or celebrating sexuality? 10. Codependency 11. Depression or a time to go inward and reflect? 12. Learned Optimism 13. Is the problem inside you or outside you? 14. The benefits of therapy and inner work 15. What is mental health? What is normal? Who decides? 16. When you want to persuade someone else to go to therapy 17. The impact of your therapy on your relationships 18. What are your goals and expectations? 19. Your contract for therapy 20. Choosing a therapist 21. Licensure, credentials, training, experience in 22. The therapist's own therapy experience 23. Referrals, word of mouth, professional acquaintance. 24. Young therapists and/or those new to the field 25. Interviewing a therapist on the phone; questions to ask 26. Patient rights and responsibilities, informed consent 27. Confidentiality and privacy 28. Respectful, concerned interest in you as a person 29. Money and fees 30. Insurance, how much, sliding scales 31. Who pays for your therapy? 32. Your first session 33. Ethical standards and professionalism 34. Therapist availability when you are in crisis 35. Scheduling sessions 36. Malleable minds 37. The transference and counter-transference 38. Falling in love with your therapist 39. Interpretations and projections 40. What is resistance? 41. Disagreeing with your therapist 42. Who holds the power and authority? 43. Alliances: divide and conquer 44. What are the beliefs and values affecting the therapy encounter? 45. What is your lens on the world? 46. Black and white thinking 47. Who does the talking? 48. What do you talk about? What are appropriate or necessary topics in therapy? Who decides on the focus of the therapy? 49. Having a respectful, attentive listener 50. Listening to yourself 51. Setting boundaries 52. Language and political correctness 53. The inter-relationship of thoughts, feelings, behaviors. 54. Psychological schools: psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, family systems, existential, spiritual, pastoral, Christian, eclectic. 55. Couples counseling or relationship therapy 56. Gay, bisexual, and polyamorous therapists 57. Directive vs. non-directive therapies 58. Advice and guidance 59. For Your Own Good 60. Advice outside of therapist's area of expertise. Would you take medical advice from your stock broker? 61. Confrontations and interventions: Is it tough love or abuse? 62. Racism, sexism, and stereotypes 63. Secrets and elitism 64. Cosmology and psychotheology 65. Religion and spirituality in psychotherapy 66. Hypnosis 67. Regression, past life therapy, and reincarnation 68. Inner child work 69. Repressed or recovered memories and false memory syndrome 70. Treatment for sexual and physical abuse 71. Dreams and nightmares 72. Rituals 73. Role play, psychodrama, and Gestalt therapy 74. Brief psychotherapy, solution-focused psychotherapy 75. Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) 76. Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) 77. Breathwork and rebirthing 78. Sex therapy 79. Constructive Living: Morita and Naikan psychotherapy 80. Narrative therapy 81. EMDR 82. Life skills training 83. Homework and directives 84. What are the possible dangers? Abuses of therapy 85. Are there "crazy therapies"? 86. When your personal belief system is judged as "crazy" 87. Getting another opinion 88. The "One True Path" — gurus and megalomaniacs 89. How do you feel after your sessions and about your therapist? 90. Trust and safety; therapy as a safe place 91. When therapy shrinks the Self; Therapist as an "expander" 92. When the therapist tries to remake you in his/her own image 93. Therapy as "a cell of revolution" 94. Judging your progress 95. Analysis paralysis 96. Dependence vs. autonomy and freedom 97. Making your own decisions and choices 98. Isolation and attachment 99. Diagnosis and being a patient 100. Medication 101. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or shock therapy) 102. Hospitalization 103. How much therapy is enough? When are you done? 104. Termination 105. When to leave your therapist — definite no-noes that tell you to exit. 106. Changing therapists 107. Trusting your own mind and feelings 108. Putting yourself in charge of your life 109. Lifelong learning 110. Group therapy — advantages, other points of view, safety 111. Support groups 112. 12-Step groups 113. Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) and Co-counseling 114. Self-therapy: journals, art, writing, creative expression 115. Forming your own network of support and encouragement 116. Advocates, mentors, and teachers 117. Body work for self-awareness and stability: yoga, meditation, music, dance, massage, exercise 118. Workshops and personal growth seminars 119. Bibliotherapy: self-help books and tapes, reading for mental and emotional health 120.Taking personal growth and self-awareness into action; Making changes in your life Bibliography
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