Therapies From the Inside

The books, in order

1. 1

   Mental Health · 16 min

   Letters to a Young Therapist

   Contardo Calligaris

   Someone who chooses to care for people because they like being needed has a very different motive from someone who chooses it because they like people, and that difference shows up sooner or later in the therapy room.

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2. 2

   Mental Health · 14 min

   Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

   Irvin D. Yalom

   According to the book, curing an obsession sometimes means helping a person give up the very memory that made them feel most alive.

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3. 3

   Mental Health · 14 min

   The Gift of Therapy

   Irvin D. Yalom

   According to the book, the quality of the bond between patient and therapist matters more for change than any single technique.

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4. 4

   Mental Health · 16 min

   Reinventing Your Life

   Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko

   According to the authors, lifetraps are born from childhood needs that went unmet in a persistent way.

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5. 5

   Mental Health · 17 min

   Mentes Inquietas

   Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva

   ADHD has a strong biological and hereditary basis, so blaming the family or a lack of discipline at home usually misses the mark.

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6. 6

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Depressive Minds

   Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva

   Depression isn't a lack of willpower: it is an illness with symptoms, causes, and treatment, and dismissing it as whining delays help.

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7. 7

   Mental Health · 15 min

   Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond

   Judith S. Beck

   An automatic thought is born as fast as a scare, which tricks people into treating it as fact instead of as a first guess.

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8. 8

   Mental Health · 16 min

   Cognitive Therapy of Depression

   Aaron T. Beck, A. John Rush, Brian F. Shaw, and Gary Emery

   According to the cognitive model, what we feel depends largely on how we interpret what happens to us.

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9. 9

   Mental Health · 14 min

   DBT Skills Training Manual

   Marsha M. Linehan

   In DBT, acceptance and change go hand in hand: you're doing the best you can, and you also need to learn new things.

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10. 10

    Mental Health · 16 min

    Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

    Julie Smith

    Avoiding what scares you brings relief today and increases the fear tomorrow, which is why facing it gradually teaches the brain to tolerate it.

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