Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 7 Detached Mindfulness
Detached mindfulness is being aware of having a thought while leaving it alone. In metacognitive therapy, it is often helpful to practice a basic treatment …
Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 6 Thought Control and Overthinking
As a metacognitive therapist, I meet people who try to control their thoughts and feelings in various, sometimes creative, ways. People who try to get …
Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 5 Changing Focus
In this series, I dwell on my own experiences of metacogntive therapy from my perspective as a therapist. In this post, I want to show …
Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 4 Get Rid of or Get Good at?
Sometimes when I ask people about their goal of attending therapy, they might say that they want to get rid of negative thoughts and feelings, …
Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 3 The Meta-Level Dialogue
I want to share with you how the dialogue in metacognitive therapy is different from other talk therapies that I have done, from my point …
Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 2 The Questioning
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. – Voltaire I want to follow up on my previous post Inside the Mind …
Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 1 The Basics
I practice metacognitive therapy everyday in a private practice for a range of psychological disorders. I have been doing therapy for a total of 8 …
Happiness Is an Empty Promise
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the faster it flies away – Steven Hayes I want to show you a great …
The Nocebo Effect: When Negative Expectations About a Treatment Result in Real Negative Outcomes
This article is about studies on the nocebo effect – the opposite of the placebo effect (which I have also written about – read more …
If You Struggle With Controlling Your Attention, Goal Reminders Can Help You, Experiment Shows
A new experiment (using a so-called Stroop test) finds that goal reminders help people solve a task that requires both working memory capacity and attentional …