On this blog, I would like to briefly and intermittently explore misconceptions about psychotherapy. Talk therapy – to use a blanket term encompassing everything from old-school Freudian psychoanalysis to newer approaches, like relational psychotherapy (which I practice) – view clients’ issues from different psychological, philosophical, and scientific angles. Because it has been around since the… Read more »
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What is Addiction?
Addiction is in the news a lot these days, particularly if you live in Toronto as I do. In the last decade we have opened up the way we understand addiction – a term we used to reserve only for chemical substances – to include such non-chemical things as internet porn addiction, retail consumption, video… Read more »

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