If you get the opportunity to work with your loved one to vanquish the Problem, don’t mistake this opportunity for the Problem, itself. You could blow your chance because of the presence of your own Problem. Let’s say your husband has not been able to keep it in his pants. He’s flirted with others, cheatedContinue reading “Team Up with the Person Against the Problem”
Author Archives: Keith R Wilson
The Uses of Uncertainty
Bringing you the best of mental health In 1900, for eleven weeks, Sigmund Freud met with a teenage girl stricken by hysterical mutism. We know this woman by the name Freud gave her, Dora. It wasn’t her real name. Precipitating the symptoms, she had accused an older family friend of making sexual advances to her.Continue reading “The Uses of Uncertainty”
GoodTherapy
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re in the Rochester area and need a therapist, give me a call. If you live somewhere else, I’m sorry, but I probably don’t know anyone there to recommend. But I can recommend a website to go to find someone: GoodTherapy.org. There are a fewContinue reading “GoodTherapy”
How Caretaking Can Be A Problem
You may have actually said it, and it’s true. Taking care of a person with a Problem gives meaning and purpose to your life. Your life needs meaning and purpose. It makes your life worthwhile; it indicates your existence matters. That’s important. Sometimes, it’s the only thing that keeps you going. It’s something you canContinue reading “How Caretaking Can Be A Problem”
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Bringing you the best of mental health Back when I was studying psychology in college, I got a hold of a book by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases) that would change the way I think about thinking; but not fast enough.
Story Worth
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. There’s a lot about your loved one you never knew: your mother’s first crush, your father’s secret dream, the time your grandfather took up the saxophone. They never thought to tell you and you never thought to ask. For $79, when it’s not on sale, StoryContinue reading “Story Worth”
Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Class
Bringing you the best of mental health If you live near Rochester and are interested in learning more about Dialectical Behavior Therapy, either as a patient, a therapist, or a family member, then I recommend attending this class on October 20th, by my colleague, Kate Knapp. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, as it’s generally known,Continue reading “Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Class”
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Some people think psychotherapy is like getting their teeth cleaned. For others, it’s like getting their teeth pulled. There are some who value a comfortable, long term relationship with a therapist: someone who doesn’t judge, someone who lets them be who they are and go at their own pace. They go periodically to get thingsContinue reading “Solution Focused Brief Therapy”
The Peace of Wild Things
Bringing you the best of mental health on this anniversary of 9/11. When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water,Continue reading “The Peace of Wild Things”
Philip Larkin
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This Be the Verse By Philip Larkin They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn ByContinue reading “Philip Larkin”
Keith Wilson - Counseling 