Stop Using Treatable Illness as a Synonym for Danger
Editorial · MIC LEDGER · Michael Baltimore Ph.D.
Ideas Worth Remembering
Writing on psychotherapy, supervision, couples and family life, and the everyday work of staying well.
We have industrialized the one move that closes a conversation, and we are teaching it to everybody who watches us work.
Editorial · MIC LEDGER · Michael Baltimore Ph.D.
Before technique, before theory, before the intake form: you have to survive the person in the room. Here is what that actually asks of a clinician — and why the therapist who stays comfortable is the one guaranteeing nothing happens.
Georgia moved license renewal onto an outsourced platform this cycle. The requirement was never the problem. What wasn't said in advance was — and underneath it sits a rule that has outlived its evidence.