Post Traumatic Growth: Hurricane Sandy
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Post Traumatic Growth So, in the last post, I pointed out the difficult experiences that can result from trauma. Recent…
Posts by Dr. Jerry Duvinsky PhD
Coping with Disaster: Hurricane Sandy
Calamity and disaster, such as that wrought by Hurricane Sandy or other forces, leave in their wake a residual of…
Emotional Exposure: Evaporation and Transpiration
The concept of evaporation and transpiration is a useful metaphor to describe what occurs when we pursue mindful emotional exposure,…
Implosion Therapy and Fear Exposure: Make your own horror movie
OK, so I will provide some basic instructions and outline to help you write, direct and produce your own personally…
Exposure therapy: Implosion
Implosion therapy, a behavioral fear exposure therapy technique, in my estimation is the most powerful though poorly understood therapy for…
Halloween 3: Exposing Fear: Flooding Therapy
Flooding therapy is one of several widely utilized behavioral treatment methodologies that have proven extremely beneficial toward helping people expose…
Halloween 2: The Drive to Engage in Fear Exposure
Halloween: Fear Exposure Halloween may well be an adaptive mechanism to help us to engage in fear exposure. It is…
Enter Halloween: Facing the Demons: Fear exposure
Fear exposure: As we approach Halloween, the next few posts will address the issue of FEAR. Ma ha,ha,ha,ha!! We all…
Emotional Exposure: Surfing Toxic Shame
Emotional exposure in action So from time to time I will post a case illustration depicting the utilization of Integrative…
Toxic Shame and Anxiety
I am increasingly discovering that many experiences that appear to be symptoms of anxiety actually are manifestations of toxic shame.…
Mindful Exposure of Toxic Shame: Black Tar
So maybe some of you reflected upon the questions I posed at the end of the last post. I have…
Vampire Hunting: Finding and Naming Toxic Shame
Toxic shame, by its very nature is furtive, secretive and incredibly slippery. It loves to evade detection (attention) and loves…