A couple of months ago I delivered a workshop to a group of fresh CBT therapists, during which I did some role plays. After the event one of the participants commented on how unprofessional my demonstration was, because – as he pointed out – “during the role play I did not talk about the topic […]
Therapists on a bus – therapeutic alliance in Emotional Safeness Therapy
Therapeutic alliance is one of the most frequently discussed topics in psychotherapy literature and its importance is broadly acknowledged. But what about the consequences of this acknowledgment? How does the robust evidence of the critical importance of alliance affect what we call evidence based treatment? You may think that after saying “A” people are certain […]
Introducing Emotional Safeness Therapy for depression and personality problems
Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST) is a new integrative treatment for recurrent depression and co-occurring personality problems. The EST has been successfully implemented and run as group therapy over a period of three years (2015-2018) at an outpatient unit of the Akershus University Hospital in Norway. You can read more about the work on the development […]
The Multidimensional Model of Change – a new way of structuring psychotherapy
Multidimensional Model of Change (the MMC) is a client-centered, meta-theoretical framework for structuring psychotherapy. The Model has been used as a basis for the development of an integrative group treatment for depression, called Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST), which has been implemented and successfully run by a team of clinicians at the Akershus University Hospital, the […]
How not to learn psychotherapy – a tale from a near-life experience
As some of you probably noticed from my posts on Facebook, I spent the first half of August in the hospital, where I went through two life-saving surgeries. Unfortunately, the second one was caused by a serious medical error committed during the first one. In this way, I was given an opportunity to personally and […]
Rat race and the twilight of psychotherapy
This is the second in the series of introductory articles on the Multidimensional Model of Change and Emotional Safeness Therapy (a modular group treatment for recurrent depression, successfully implemented and run at the Akershus University Hospital in 2015-2018). The introductory text had become so long that I decided to chop it into smaller blog posts […]