Mind For Therapy

I'm interested in letting loose a bit with this website. I have thought for sometime about adding a little meaning to the noise about therapy, counseling, etc, etc, etc. I am hoping to have a fun while giving people something worthwhile to read. I am not interested building up some new establishement or the next new thing in therapy. I think we have plenty of people who think they have found the answers. I want to poke fun and be a little irreverant. So... this is my outlet. 

I would like to see a real movement towards an evovled understanding of therapy that sheds the old shackles of scared models and prideful men bickering back and forth about whose ideas have the most currancy or potency.

For the most part, the research on therapy shows that there is little to no difference between treatment models or schools. And in large part the fiield simply keeps on ignoring this fact.

I come from a family therapy tradition and I find it interesting. I apply systemic family therapy principles to how I approach every case. Does this mean that I am always systemic... No. Even Gregory Bateson said he only have brief moments of clarity inwhich he was able to hold a full appreciation for systemic thought.

I love the new work of Bradford Keeney. His new book Creative Therapy is coming out in July... A must read (partly becuase most of the cases he writes about in the book took place at the agency I work at). I think his greatest contribution will be his unwellingness to continue the creative, improvisational, and absurd work of the family therapy forefathers. Brad has described is birth into the field of family therapy to me in detail. "Bateson was my father in the filed and Whitaker my mother." I love it.

For now... I consider myself more or less an orphan.

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