Notes on Therapy - Sanity by Tanmoy

Notes on Therapy

Sanitify III: What is treatment resistance?

One of the most vexing questions in mental health care.

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Technology

BIG READ: Therapy must stop being too nice - especially in the age of AI

'Comfort' and 'validation' are critical concepts in therapy but they must have their limits, or they might degenerate into the kind of sycophancy AI bots are accused of.

Notes on Therapy

Launching Sanitify: Mini-guides and explainers to complex questions

Edition 1: How to smash the money taboo in therapy

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Notes on Therapy

Therapy's 'human touch' is nearing its sell-by date

Human-ness was therapy's biggest defence against AI. It may not be enough anymore.

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Culture

Are you a conflict entrepreneur?

Rage bait on social media can get you a big following. But it creates zero change.

Culture

BIG READ | The four sins therapy shares with journalism, and how to fix them

Failure to keep up with technology, mistreating workers, emphasising despair over hope, lack of diversity and erosion of trust.

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Notes on Therapy

▶️ MASTERCLASS | The gung-ho rise of therapy content on social media, and the ethics of therapist-content creators/-influencers

One of the most meaningful things I've ever built.

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Notes on Therapy

Your therapist is a social media star. What would Freud, Jung, Adler, Winnicott, and Klein say?

Plus a note on the future of Sanity.

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Notes on Therapy

Your therapist wrote about you. How does that make you feel?

A Sanity community member takes on one of the thorniest questions in therapy.

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Notes on Therapy

Money can be a taboo topic in therapy. Here's how you can break free.

Approach your discomfort with curiosity instead of fear.

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Notes on Therapy

Society, pay thy therapists fairly

A quick history of paying for healthcare, and why supporting therapists' right to fair pay is everyone's job.

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Notes on Therapy

Help! My therapist is awkward about money.

A new series on a secret burden in therapy.