Pain, Loss, and Suffering

Treatment requires more than a focus on symptoms and diagnoses.

What are the soft skills that allow therapists to help patients explain their behaviors and become more in touch with their emotions?

We may still be missing the root cause of someone's anxiety, no matter how comprehensive our assessment might be.

According to a key tenet of cognitive behavioral therapy, the way we perceive situations shapes how we respond to them. This is especially true for situations that lead to suffering.

What if all situations we called "problems" were merely indicators of a different, larger problem?

One’s perception about a situation, and not the situation itself, determines the feelings and behaviors that follow.

Neuroscience

Preparing for the Post-COVID Reentry Process

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on April 13, 2021

Everything is an opportunity, but not everyone knows that—because not everyone is at the same state of awareness.

Everything is an opportunity, but not everyone knows that—because not everyone is at the same state of awareness.

Compassion Fatigue

What Causes Suffering?

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on April 6, 2021

What causes suffering is a key question for all of us to think about.

What causes suffering is a key question for all of us to think about.

What clinicians can do when patients have given up on life.

Embarrassment

The Lowest States of Consciousness

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on March 23, 2021

The lowest levels of consciousness, shame and guilt, bring pain and destruction.

The lowest levels of consciousness, shame and guilt, bring pain and destruction.

Unconscious

Stop Suffering by Giving Up Your Attack Thoughts

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on March 16, 2021

Understand the mechanism of attack thoughts to raise your own consciousness and that of the world.

Understand the mechanism of attack thoughts to raise your own consciousness and that of the world.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Meaning and Meaninglessness: One Practical Tool in CBT

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on March 9, 2021

The practical use of this insight is how we have arrived at a series of evidence-based practices, including CBT, DBT, and Logotherapy.

The practical use of this insight is how we have arrived at a series of evidence-based practices, including CBT, DBT, and Logotherapy.

Forgiveness

Means and Consciousness

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on March 2, 2021

As long as we are not seeing reality, we are unable to see the means that truly make a difference—the constant means.

As long as we are not seeing reality, we are unable to see the means that truly make a difference—the constant means.

Neuroscience

Meaning, Past, and Consciousness

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on February 23, 2021

The past is a construct used to distinguish between what we think belongs to our present time and what we think may have taken place just before that.

The past is a construct used to distinguish between what we think belongs to our present time and what we think may have taken place just before that.

Philosophy

What Is Reality?

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on February 16, 2021

We can look at the latest in physics to help us with insight about ourselves, about how we navigate ourselves in the world, and about what reality is and is not.

We can look at the latest in physics to help us with insight about ourselves, about how we navigate ourselves in the world, and about what reality is and is not.

Forgiveness

The Forgiveness Exercise

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on February 9, 2021

The benefits of forgiveness have been studied in medicine and social sciences. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin developed a 20-Step Process Model of Forgiveness.

The benefits of forgiveness have been studied in medicine and social sciences. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin developed a 20-Step Process Model of Forgiveness.

Understand the root cause of suffering, how to put an end to it, and how to not just “survive” in the world.

Cognition

An Inside-Out World

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on January 26, 2021

Our reluctance to give up our controlled hallucinations makes sense, except that suffering ends up being the consequence.

Our reluctance to give up our controlled hallucinations makes sense, except that suffering ends up being the consequence.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT and Beliefs

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on January 19, 2021

Part 2: When we compare our current outcome with our initial conscious choice, the basis for our level of satisfaction may not be as reliable as we may believe it to be.

Part 2: When we compare our current outcome with our initial conscious choice, the basis for our level of satisfaction may not be as reliable as we may believe it to be.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT and Beliefs

Mardoche Sidor, M.D. and Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW on January 12, 2021

If our beliefs started as a thought, it becomes easy for us to wonder about the foundation for our beliefs.

If our beliefs started as a thought, it becomes easy for us to wonder about the foundation for our beliefs.