Curated by Abodid Sahoo
Research papersI keep coming back to.
Written by their respective authors, not by me. Collected here for their connections to autoethnography, photography, grief, memory and human emotions.
The reading shelf
Psychotherapy
An editorial debating the role of research as the cornerstone of psychotherapeutic theory, practice, and training. It questions what is meant by 'research' in this context, contrasting evidence-based practice (EBP) with the view that psychotherapy itself is the research.
An editorial discussing love, sex, and psychotherapy in a "post-romantic era" where there are greater sexual freedoms but a longing to "marry sex and intimacy."
Responds to a proposal for using "love drugs" to enhance romantic relationships, arguing that the medicalization of broken hearts is therapy, not enhancement. Notes that psychotherapy and counseling already analyze and medicalize romantic love without objection.
Presents the findings of a heuristic investigation into factors that may hinder the process of working with clients who have been sexually abused in a therapeutic setting.
Examines psychotherapists' stories of their work with suicidal clients, focusing on the meaning of life and death in this therapeutic context.