Joseph Campi LMFT

09/03/2022

Sage advice for every practitioner, particularly analytically informed ones. 👏

Insight? Relationship? Both? The therapist’s warmth and empathy are essential to build a working alliance. But his or her intelligence and learning are cruci...

04/14/2022

05/14/2020

How do we process life under the pandemic and avoid being drawn into the contagion of fear? by Giovanni del Vecchio, 11 April 2020 A kind of war We suddenly find ourselves in an unplanned-for dystopia. How are we to find a firm footing in inner and outer worlds so disorienting? After the daily sta....

09/16/2019

Short but good read on how insight and personal responsibility can assist trauma -informed treatment.

When I first started therapy, every time I heard the words "inner child" I wanted to puke. First of all, the only memories I have from my childhood aren't really memories. They are home videos. I have no idea how I felt as a child, and I certainly didn't care to do so. I wanted to put all of that in...

05/31/2019

I enjoyed this. So many patients struggle with fear and judgment during the session. The couch however mythic can offer relief and be a freeing tool for psychological work. Nice read.

Why "the couch" may be just what some patients need.

12/17/2018

This comes up a lot in private practice for both patient and psychotherapist. Good read.

Self-care is not an indulgence. It's the ongoing practice of keeping ourselves physically and emotionally healthy.

08/30/2018

Nice read on primitive anxieties and how ppt helps create space for thinking and the capacity for containment.

New psychoanalytic research demonstrates how needs and emotions are connected.

05/11/2018

Bruce Levin MD describes how psychoanalytically trained psychotherapists listen and respond to patients in a very specialized way that seeks to create change in patients that are structural versus merely descriptive. Nice read.

How to get help with today’s “problems of living.”

04/18/2018

A personal favorite of mine, McWilliams offers some elucidating comments on the praxis of the therapeutic relationship, the need for clinical curiosity with our patients and the commodification of the mental health field. Having met her once, I enjoyed her warm style and her thoughtful contributions to the field.

Dr. Nancy McWilliams, world-renowned psychodynamic diagnostician and psychotherapist, talks to New Therapist (http://www.newtherapist.com) about some of the ...