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		<title>Therapeutic Effectiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Believe those who are seeking the truth, doubt those who find it.” - Andre Gide  In The Heart and Soul of Psychotherapy: Delivering What Works, second edition, the author’s review decades of psychotherapy outcome research. The findings clearly affirm the value of psychotherapy. The research indicates that 80% of individuals who receive psychotherapy benefit in <a href="http://drlarrybrooks.com/therapeutic-effectiveness/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trusting One’s Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes say to clients and often think to myself that one’s mind is not one’s own. While I consider myself reasonable, thoughtful, and capable of sustained focused activity, the periodic intrusion of obsessive ideas and vindictive phantasies, not to mention the nightly dream world casts my mind as a most intimate, yet seemingly autonomous <a href="http://drlarrybrooks.com/trusting-one%e2%80%99s-mind/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>From Stressed to Zest: Making Something out of Dread</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A client who was stuck in a sinkhole of fear, panic, and lethargy looked at me in dismay as he said he wished he could experience more zest in life. I replied that I too wished the same for him and thought if only he could convert the enormous energy powering his worry into zest <a href="http://drlarrybrooks.com/from-stressed-to-zest-making-something-out-of-dread-2/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Therapist’s Vulnerability</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mellylou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a foundational principle that trust is essential to intimacy and the growing edge in deepening the psychotherapeutic relationship. Most of the focus on trust in the psychotherapy literature has examined the client’s trust of the therapist. Yet, trust is a mutual albeit asymmetrical phenomenon in the psychotherapeutic relationship. Trust is so basic to <a href="http://drlarrybrooks.com/the-therapist%e2%80%99s-vulnerability/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Self-Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are so quick to spend and borrow money. At least we were until the financial bubble burst. Now with little credit available we can turn our attention to the real value of credit in terms of valuing oneself. How often do we stop and think positively about what we have done or our value? How <a href="http://drlarrybrooks.com/the-value-of-self-credit/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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