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Phil Harris
Jun 23, 20211 min read
How to Hallucinate (Without Drugs)
I felt I could reach through the screen to get to another place. Lasers became entire fans of light sweeping around, and then it felt as...
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Phil Harris
Jul 1, 20201 min read
What is Treatment?
Historically we have always been very fixated on modality-or type of therapy- and have always assumed that this is responsible for...
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Phil Harris
Feb 12, 20201 min read
Wrong Matters More Than Right in Helping
In training and lectures on treatment outcomes I often suggest that doing the wrong thing in sessions with clients has a bigger impact on...
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Phil Harris
Dec 12, 20191 min read
DHI: The Vision Project
Throughout 2019, Developing Health & Independence (DHI), have been marking their 20th anniversary as a charity by looking to the future....
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Phil Harris
Nov 4, 20193 min read
Think You Know Better? Here is Your Chance
It never ceases to surprise me in training and lectures when sharing well thought through, systematic, peer reviewed research findings...
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Phil Harris
Mar 20, 20191 min read
The Role of Emotional Expression in Treatment Outcomes
I discuss the role of emotions in change and treatment outcomes. Particularly the importance of naming emotions in the here and now in...
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Phil Harris
Jan 24, 20192 min read
Have I Told You About My Self-Disclosure?
I get asked about the issue of self-disclosure a lot in training. It is one of those difficult grey areas where people are never sure of...
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Phil Harris
Dec 13, 20181 min read
Ruptures in the Alliance Matter
Anyone who has heard me speak on treatment outcomes will know of my proclivity to stress the importance of alliance in treatment...
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Phil Harris
Oct 15, 20181 min read
A Revolution in Diagnosis of Mental Illness?
In lectures and training in mental health I stress how current psychiatric diagnosis is really a short-hand for the presenting signs and...
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Phil Harris
Oct 8, 20182 min read
Social Constructionism Exposed as Drivel-Yet Again
Whenever someone starts to quote post-modernism / social construction theory to me, I point them in the direction of Alan Sokal. In the...
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Phil Harris
May 9, 20182 min read
Echo Chambers of the Mind
I often explore challenging research findings that questions some core assumptions about human development and treatment processes. I...
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Phil Harris
May 9, 20181 min read
The Counselor Matters The Most In Drug Treatment: A Classic Revisited
McLellen et al 1985 research study on the power of the alliance in the treatment of clients of methadone scripts changed my view of drug...
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Phil Harris
Jan 2, 20182 min read
We Have Got the Brain All Wrong Say Physicists!
New types of experiments call activity of hundreds of labs and thousands of scientific studies in neuroscience into question, and could...
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Phil Harris
Nov 27, 20171 min read
Addiction Recovery Special: Professor William White
I have been meaning to include the expansive and state-of the art research from Professor William White for some time now. Whilst his...
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Phil Harris
Aug 18, 20171 min read
Beyond Nudge
Nudge theory, a short hand for behavioral economics, has become increasingly popular in terms of understanding how to shape positive...
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Phil Harris
Jul 27, 20171 min read
Feedback is Not Enough (Revisited)
I recently posted a short piece on real time feedback. This research suggested that gathering feedback was not enough to improve a...
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Phil Harris
Jul 26, 20171 min read
Beyond Feedback: How to Maximize Outcomes Through Reflective Practice
I was a very early adopter of real time feedback measures with clients. These tools measure the client response to treatment in each...
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Phil Harris
Jun 7, 20171 min read
Spurious Connections
A recent conversation with a colleague reminded me of this great website that reminds us of the first law of research. Correlation is...
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Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read
Prescribed Morality
Drugs have a wide range of side effects. However, one side effect that is rarely discussed and little known is the effect drugs can have...
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Phil Harris
Apr 28, 20171 min read
Prof David Orlinsky on Addiction Research and Treatment Outcomes
I am a huge fan of Prof David Orlinsky's work. He has conducted extensive research on treatment processes and outcomes and his work on...
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