Jay Beichman PhD MBACP SnrAccred

03/09/2025

'Pluralism in Counselling and Psychotherapy' now available for pre-order!https://www.routledge.com/Pluralism-in-Counselling-and-Psychotherapy-Philosophy-Politics-and-Practice/Beichman/p/book/9781032723174

03/08/2025

An interesting section in this on therapy and AI:

Artificial intelligence is being used to diagnose rare diseases and provide vital support for people dealing with anxiety and depression, taking on roles tra...

31/07/2025

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pluralism-and-therapy-resisting-one-size-therapy-live-book-launch-tickets-1494277366829?aff=oddtdtcreator

Pluralism and Therapy: Resisting One-Size Therapy Live Book Launch with Jay Beichman

13/07/2025

Good 15 minute intro to some aspects of attachment theory on Radio 4's 'Child':

Attachment - it conjures up images of love and security, but what is it?

26/06/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/jaybeichmanwriter/p/therapy-the-ta-ego-state-model-and?r=1fhcsx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Therapy Hacks 1

08/06/2025

https://novaramedia.com/2025/05/22/meet-the-mental-health-podcaster-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai/

Novara Media spoke to Mollie Adler about how entire industries are being built around collecting, sorting and monetising our inner worlds.

29/05/2025

As a survivor of su***de I admire this teenager raising awareness in schools and the wider community:

Evie hates the way other children at school casually joke about su***de. She and her younger sister lost their father in 2018, and she decided to give a school assembly on the subject.

08/05/2025

This was a heartening programme, especially for those of us who suffer from panic attacks or who might have been stalked by someone:

Dr Sian Williams talks to a woman who found a way through her debilitating panic attacks.

26/04/2025

Excited about my book being published in October:

This book explores the concept of pluralism in therapy, emphasising the value of multiple therapeutic approaches. It introduces ‘pluralistic therapy’, developed by Mick Cooper and John McLeod, as a response to divisions in the therapy field, particularly the dominance of CBT and medicalised mode...

08/04/2025

Excited that my book 'Pluralism in Counselling and Psychotherapy'' is now in production with Routledge. It will be available for pre-order in September and published in October. The exact dates are currently subject to change. The link is here:

This book explores the concept of pluralism in therapy, emphasising the value of multiple therapeutic approaches. It introduces ‘pluralistic therapy’, developed by Mick Cooper and John McLeod, as a response to divisions in the therapy field, particularly the dominance of CBT and medicalised mode...

29/03/2025

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/28/unshrunk-a-memoir-that-upsets-the-nyt-and-which-freethinkers-will-love/

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, the newly published book by Laura Delano, is scaring the hell out of establishment psychiatry and

29/03/2025

This is a useful article about how when chasing goals we need to be careful about losing sight of the present and enjoying the life we are already living. We are always already enough.

Defining the "Arrival Fallacy," how it drives unnecessary suffering, and its solution.