On the far right side of the Recovery Review home page are a few so-called “navigators”.
Yesterday we added a category to the “Special Series” navigator. The category we added is called “Psychodynamic Perspective”.
Here’s what the Special Series navigator looks like right now. I’ve circled the new one we added in red so you can easily see it.
What can be found in the Psychodynamic Perspective navigator? Below is the list of material currently posted there, organized by date. Each item listed here is clickable.
Question from the field: “Do ACT and the unconscious have any common ground?” September 6, 2025
Using Both Lenses: Academic/Evidence-Based and Psychodynamic. May 31, 2025
An Introduction to Psychodynamic Foundations of Counseling and Related Clinical Supervision for SUDs. April 26, 2025
When Evidence-Based Methods Don’t Seem to Fit: An Example During Cognitive Restructuring. December 16, 2024
Depth Psychology Applied to Addiction Counseling. October 28, 2024
Topic from the field: “Should artificial intelligence replace the addiction counselor?” September 1, 2024
“The patient’s unknown goal” April 29, 2024
Technique vs. Empathy. June 22, 2023
Comments on the Task of Interpreting. November 14, 2022.
Grief and Depression as Factors in Addiction Counseling. May 21, 2022
Rescorla is to Pavlov as Semiotics is to Freud. May 12, 2022
Our Unconscious Relationship with Tobacco March 11, 2022
“Throw Flour On the Invisible Man”: Toward locating recovery function and assessing recovery quality. February 27, 2021
Recovery: What Is It Good For? February 20, 2021
Negative space. January 15, 2021
The Change Process. September 8, 2020
Is It Too Late to Ask, “What Is Empathy?” July 18, 2020
Reflections on “The Universal Mind of Bill Evans” December 28, 2019
Some of these posts are quite brief, others are medium length, and some are much longer and more dense.
A couple of these entries are monographs, and are also found in the “Monographs” link of the Special Series navigator.
The material here is fairly wide ranging.
My hope is that some readers find value in this material. And now, for ease of navigation here on Recovery Review, this material from over the years can be found in one convenient location.
My personal and professional reasons for tackling this kind of content can be found in the various posts. My only other encouragement to the reader is to say that I’ve personally found a great deal of benefit in taking in and working with material from the psychodynamic perspective.
Someone academically and clinically trained in the psychoanalytic tradition taught me a tip: when reading more than one piece of material by a particular author, consider reading the material in date order. That method helps the reader sense the developmental trajectory of the content itself, and sometimes that can also be helpful to gain.
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