With the new year upon us and school back in session, many parents return to the duty of helping with homework. For some parents, however, “helping with homework” has come to mean taking over the responsibility of getting the homework done. Sometimes this means loud, ongoing exhortations (nagging) in an effort to make the child […]
Interpersonal-psychodynamic psychotherapy views our problems in living as related to our relationships, past and present. We all wish that people in our lives would meet our emotional needs, and that they would react to us in ways that we want them to. In childhood, and in our current life, that does not always happen. These […]
For many people, the idea of hypnosis conjures up the image of the old style of psychoanalyst, waving a watch in front of someone and saying, “You are getting sleepy, sleepy . . .” or an image of a stage magician , with people getting up on stage and acting like chickens. Modern hypnosis is […]
Nervous feelings are the result of a particular thought pattern, which we may shift into when we anticipate failure or rejection. A “thought pattern” is a set of feelings and images that are strongly associated with each other. One image or feeling can “call up” the entire set that it’s associated with. The more times […]
Frequently Asked Questions About Psychotherapy Do I Have To Lie On A Couch? Only if you want to. Seriously, most psychotherapy takes place sitting up. Our offices are equipped with sofas and very comfortable chairs to help our patients feel relaxed, but the old style of psychoanalysis (lying on the couch) is rarely used these […]
Virginia Satir, in her pioneering work Peoplemaking, tried to bring the concepts of family therapy to the masses so that people could understand how families shape (and unintentionally distort) their members’ feelings and behavior. Before that, a number of well-known therapists spent many years working with entire families to develop their ideas of how the family […]
Alcoholism could be referred to as “the disease that makes you think you don’t have it.” Alcoholics rarely believe that they have the disease, or they minimize it in other ways such as by comparing themselves to even heavier drinkers. They develop elaborate belief systems to defend themselves against the realization that they are not […]
In July of 1997 the Georgia State Legislature activated a law mandating a clinical evaluation to assess the need for alcohol and/or drug treatment, for anyone getting a second DUI conviction within 5 years. The DUI Risk-Reduction Program is administered by the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR). The State of Georgia trains and certifies […]
Typical Questions that are asked of us by the Courts, and various persons or agencies involved in settling custody disputes, include which factors of personality, interpersonal style, disciplinary style, and emotional health and adjustment will influence what custody arrangements will be best for the child(ren) whose living arrangement is in question. Factors related to positive […]
The concept of Co-Dependency was developed as a way of explaining how family members of alcoholics, especially their spouses, became emotionally ill apparently as a result of living with an alcoholic for years. “Co” is a prefix that means “like” or “with” – the family member becomes sick like and with “the dependent” (the person […]
