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Michael Karson, Ph.D., J.D., A.B.P.P.
2 articles
Michael Karson, Ph.D., J.D., A.B.P.P. (Clinical) teaches clinical and forensic psychology in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver, but he practiced for 25 years before entering academia. He is first or sole author of six books, the latest of which is What Every Therapist Needs to Know. He blogs at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-our-way.
The Cultural Climate of Clinical Training
Freud (1913) invented the application of self-reflection to psychotherapy by making himself the subject and the object of the first therapy. He used one of his own dreams as the specimen dream in his breakthrough book, The Interpretation of Dreams, because it was in thinking about this dream that his early ideas came into focus. […]
Judith E. Fox, Ph.D. + 1 more
December 6, 2018
On Being the Instrument of Change
We know that psychotherapy outcome research cannot imitate randomized clinical trials for diseases because, for one among many reasons, the person of the therapist cannot be abstracted from the provision of treatment. The therapist is the treatment. What are the implications for training and lifelong learning? Over the course of a psychotherapy career, we will […]
Michael Karson, Ph.D., J.D., A.B.P.P.
October 14, 2018