Tag: CFT

• Fictional Formulations and The Paperback Psychologist

  

  A reflection on reading, Compassion Focused Therapy, and taking psychological formulations out of the therapy room and into understanding literary characters A Guest blog post written for balancedminds.com I’m very proud to have been able to contribute to the Compassion Focused Therapy blog for Balanced Minds. It was a chance to step back and reflect…

  The Paperback Psychologist

  16th February 2024

  Balanced Minds, Collaborations, General Blog Posts

  books, bookstagram, bookworm, CFT, clinical psychology, compassion, compassion focused therapy, education, Mental Health, mentalhealth, Psychological Portraits, psychologist, psychology, reading, scottishblogger, therapy

• Video: Small Things Like These. A discussion of a psychological portrait

  

  Join me as I talk through my recent psychological portrait of Bill Furlong, from Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (Faber Books). In this video, I briefly present my formulation of Bill to accompany my psychological portrait. I have used a Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) based approach to consider the events that have shaped Bill…

  The Paperback Psychologist

  2nd December 2023

  Psychological Portraits, Videos

  books, bookstagram, bookworm, CFT, Claire Keegan, clinical psychology, compassion focused therapy, Film, formulation, Psychological Portraits, psychology, reading, scottishblogger