by Brian Balke | Oct 28, 2020 | Mind Management
You can seek contentment by suppressing critical thinking, but that’s no substitute for joy. Transcript Hello, I am Brian Balke, and welcome to this week’s Hypnosis Rising video: Be Child-Like! From the advocates of modern talk therapy and meditation, a common...
by Brian Balke | Jun 17, 2020 | Book Reviews, Mind Management
Starting with Freud, psychiatry tried to convince us that happiness unfolds from understanding the cause of our unhappiness. Freud proposed sexual frustration in childhood, Eric Erickson focused on crises of socialization, psychopharmacology focuses on chemical...
by Brian Balke | Feb 18, 2020 | Mind Management
In archival training videos, Dr. Kappas was testy about “talk therapy.” A licensed psychotherapist himself, he bemoaned the first-session tradition of taking inventory of all the clients problems, sending them home feeling even worse about themselves than...
by Brian Balke | May 13, 2019 | Basics, Mind Management
In the basic Kappasinian Theory of Mind, we all need balance between adventurous (euphoria-seeking) and protective (fear-avoiding) behaviors. The goal of all therapy is to establish and maintain a healthful balance for the client. In this post, I consider how...
