{"id":394,"date":"2011-10-11T04:08:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-10-11T04:08:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:08:02","slug":"a-beauty-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"A beauty treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a book of case studies by various psychoanalytic therapists and one of these therapists were quoted as saying to his patients at the beginning of therapy: \u201c<em>I can\u2019t promise you much but I can promise you that you\u2019ll look better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What?? Several therapy sessions a week for years and the best you can do is promise people that they\u2019ll look better?!<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought it was an outrageous claim but the more I thought about it, the more I realised that I too often find myself either noticing or commenting on how well people look after a period in therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Because people tend to look better when they\u2019re less depressed, anxious, stressed, overwhelmed by grief, lonely or angry.<\/p>\n<p>Which made me think that maybe psychology needs to market itself a bit differently in these times where we seem so focused on youth and appearances.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<h1>Get therapy and look years younger!<\/h1>\n<p><em><strong>(a documented side-effect of this treatment is an improvement in psychological functioning)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hmm\u2026maybe a new sign for my door? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a book of case studies by various psychoanalytic therapists and one of these therapists were quoted as saying to his patients at the beginning of therapy: \u201cI can\u2019t promise you much but I can promise you that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-therapy-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}