Author Archives: Therapyisdandy
Avoiding a trip to the emotional vomitorium
Have you ever been hit up alongside the head with any of these winners? “You’re overreacting. It’s not that big of a deal.” “You are just too sensitive. That’s your problem.” “I can never tell you anything without you having … Continue reading
I read boring psychology textbooks so you don’t have to.
I mean it. It is perhaps the one part of me that is aligned with the Buddha: my wish to prevent other people’s suffering. Unfortunately I am a therapist so other people’s suffering is something I really can’t avoid. So. … Continue reading
Everything is Clinical. Everything is Genuine.
Things don’t always mean what you think they mean in Therapy. Part 5. Read any clinical textbook from any era or school of therapeutic thought in the history of psychology, and you will find a lot written about clients missing … Continue reading
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Things don’t always mean what you think they mean in therapy. Part 4.
I love hearing stories about experience with other therapists. I think it is a very important thing to pay attention to. Especially when people make comments or complaints about being confused by what their therapist does or doesn’t do in … Continue reading
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Tagged awkwardness in therapy, Charybdis. mythology, Communication, counseling, expectations for therapy, facebook, Mental health therapy, mental-health, mindfulness, Scylla, scylla and charybdis, Seth MacFarlane, talking to a therapist, The Oscars, therapy, ubiquitous question, your mother
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Last Train to Codependencyville-Narcissististan
The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 17. An ongoing survival guide. Do you go out of the way to try to meet other people’s needs, often to the detriment of your own? Do … Continue reading
Narcissism isn’t the same thing as Syphilis
The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 16. An ongoing survival guide. Narcissism isn’t the same thing as Syphilis. Just because you are exposed to it doesn’t mean you have it. This concern is … Continue reading
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Tagged adult children of narcissists, big pharma, boundaries, codependency, Communication, dandy therapy, decision making, DSM IV, exposure, health insurance premiums, health insurance reform, narcissism, obamacare, sexually transmitted disease, sexually transmitted infections, syphilis, therapy
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The Shame Sandwich
The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 15. An ongoing survival guide. No, this is not going to be a review of the movie Shame, starring Michael Fassbender. But if, for whatever reason, you … Continue reading
Narcissist Family Values.
The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 14. An ongoing survival guide. Narcissist Family Values. The way people arrive (or don’t) at their own value as a human being is complex and complicated (and, … Continue reading
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