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In the spring of 1933, as Germany sank into dictatorship, the philosopher and later Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell wrote a sentence that has since been quoted a million times over and misunderstood almost as often. Russell meant politics. Yet without knowing it, he described a psychological law.
You searched for “cognitive behavioral therapy” and landed here. Because what search engines, self-help guides, and even Google’s artificial intelligence sell you as one and the same are in truth two different things—and the difference decides whether you make progress in weeks or spend years of your life in illusions.
Psychotherapeutic records are the most intimate data a person leaves behind — and long since a commodity, a means of extortion, and a piece of evidence against the very person who confided in a psychotherapist or a machine. A survey of the damage that has already occurred.
Gert Postel, a trained mailman with a secondary school diploma, practiced for eighteen months as a senior physician at the Saxony State Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Neurology. What distinguishes the impostor Postel from licensed psychotherapists who practice methods with no evidence of efficacy?
On the cognitive paradox of mental health you should understand before wasting years of your life with the wrong psychotherapists. Psychotherapy does not cure man. Man must cure himself.
Accompanying the narcissism fairy tale "The Glass Heart," the author explains how psychological defense mechanisms can be bypassed by offering narcissists an alternative script. At the same time, the psychology and cognitive psychotherapy of narcissism are elucidated.
A psychotherapeutic fairy tale on the cognitive psychotherapy of narcissism. The narrative illustrates the development, maintenance, and therapeutic overcoming of narcissistic personality organization in the language of fairy tale, conveying cognitive-psychotherapeutic principles through narrative.
NATO has declared the human mind a battlefield. In Switzerland, this battlefield is cultivated by the Association of Swiss Psychotherapists (ASP). Is this a national security risk?
L'OTAN a déclaré l'esprit humain champ de bataille. En Suisse, ce champ de bataille est exploité par l'Association suisse des psychothérapeutes (ASP). Est-ce un risque pour la sécurité nationale ?
La NATO ha dichiarato la mente umana campo di battaglia. In Svizzera, questo campo di battaglia è coltivato dall'Associazione svizzera degli psicoterapeuti (ASP). È un rischio per la sicurezza nazionale?
A documentation of how the Association of Swiss Psychotherapists (Assoziation Schweizer Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten, ASP) instrumentalizes the Zurich Health Directorate under Natalie Rickli to shield its members’ inefficient methods from scientific progress.
The motion introduced by National Councillor Philippe Nantermod in the Swiss Parliament is not an attack on the sick but on a system that profits from their illness. The only quality controller this system cannot corrupt is the patient who pays out of pocket.
La motion déposée au Parlement suisse par le conseiller national Philippe Nantermod n'est pas une attaque contre les malades, mais contre un système qui profite de leur maladie. Le seul contrôleur de qualité que ce système ne peut corrompre est le patient qui paie lui-même.
La mozione presentata al Parlamento svizzero dal consigliere nazionale Philippe Nantermod non è un attacco ai malati, bensì a un sistema che lucra sulla loro malattia. L'unico controllore della qualità che questo sistema non può corrompere è il paziente che paga di tasca propria.
Psychotherapy in Switzerland: Under Councillor Natalie Rickli, the Zurich Health Directorate brands the international state of research as "misleading" and threatens psychotherapists with professional disbarment if they inform patients about efficient cognitive psychotherapy.
Members of the Association of Swiss Psychotherapists (ASP) can be identified by the title "Psychotherapeutin ASP" / "Psychotherapeut ASP" — members who are "disturbed" by rapid recovery without psychotropic medication, and by the notion "that a life could be fully worth living again after just a few hours of psychotherapy."
"Remove psychotherapy from the catalog of mandatory health insurance benefits," demand Swiss parliamentarians. Motion 25.4533 is the only way to enforce quality assurance in psychotherapy. The IKP Institute for Body-Centered Psychotherapy Zurich as a case in point: scientifically unfounded services billed to mandatory health insurance.
Klaus Grawe held the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern. He provided the scientific evidence: cognitive psychotherapy is clearly superior in effectiveness to all other psychotherapeutic methods — and in particular to psychoanalysis and person-centered psychotherapy.
The child of the materialistic zeitgeist knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Mental health counts for nothing — until it is lost. An analysis of how a cognitive disorder with no diagnostic code ruins lives: values neglect.
The beguiling siren songs calling for artificial intelligence (AI) to be deployed in psychotherapy are growing louder. In truth, the digital soul doctor is no healer but a dangerously potent echo chamber — one that does not correct the cognitive errors of mental disorders but can amplify them with terrifying logic.
A chronicle of reason in the time of madness, March 2020. When Switzerland resolved to abolish rational thinking and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung fueled mass hysteria, the cognitive anxiety clinic on Lake Zurich went into American exile.
The psychotherapy profession is destroying its own legitimacy by demonstrating, convincingly, time and again: there is not too little psychotherapy but too much psychotherapeutic inefficiency — in the country with the highest density of psychotherapists in the world.
A young physician learns, in a half-day cognitive forest walk, to place her own moral compass above the crumbling structures of a sick society — in order to have a family and five children.
From the madness of maximizing returns on capital to the wisdom of inner happiness: how a wealthy man discovers that his most valuable asset is not his money but his mental health.
On a banker's attempt to sell an inflatable flamingo. Or how to respond with empathy, nonetheless, to a call from a banker trying to foist ruinous US dollar certificates on his clients.
Executive suicides regularly make headlines and reveal how the humiliation triggered by a professional demotion can lead to self-destruction. A fable about the discovery of inner worth.
A portrait of the personality profile that leads to the summit — and into the abyss. An analysis of the causes behind recurring executive suicides that reveals why those in the second tier are especially at risk, and how strategic self-regulation provides protection.
This therapy report recounts, with unusual candor and honesty, how a German physician - victimized by a diseased health care system for over a decade - cured his own anxiety disorder in just eight hours through cognitive psychotherapy.