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Aug 19
3 min

What Matters? The Alliance Once Again

A trusting therapeutic relationship and outcome-oriented collaboration between therapist and patient are critical for the successful trea...

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Phil Harris

Jul 6
1 min

Anti-Antipsychiatry

A psychiatrist once told me that the only thing that would constitute a radical opinion in Psychiatry today was actually agreeing with wh...

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Buvidal: A One Shot Opiate Replacement Therapy

Phil Harris

May 21
3 min

Buvidal: A One Shot Opiate Replacement Therapy

Lockdown has had a big impact on everyone but especially those who are in receipt of opiate prescribing treatments. Daily administration ...

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Down Your Drink: Free Online Alcohol Self-Help Programme

Phil Harris

May 1
4 min

Down Your Drink: Free Online Alcohol Self-Help Programme

During the lockdown there is undoubted escalation in drinking. This may bring the use of online digital treatments to the fore. At pres...

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Phil Harris

Apr 29
1 min

Can Low Empathy Be Toxic?

In Training and in Reflective Practice sessions the issue of empathy, relationships and outcomes is often discussed. This is particularl...

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Holistic Approaches Work Best for Drug Recovery

Phil Harris

Apr 27
3 min

Holistic Approaches Work Best for Drug Recovery

A new study finds that interventions that take a multidimensional approach -- tackling the biological, social, environmental and mental h...

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Phil Harris

Feb 12
1 min

Alcohol Recovery: Is it All That?

A great word I heard recently was anticipointment. This when you find that something you thought would be great turns out to be rubbish...

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Rehabs: What the Latest Research Studies Tell Us About Their Effectiveness?

Phil Harris

Sep 5, 2019
1 min

Rehabs: What the Latest Research Studies Tell Us About Their Effectiveness?

Rehabs are often believed to ineffective or only as effective as community based treatments. There are a lot of myths about rehabs and t...

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ODHIN Trial: Do Alcohol Brief Interventions Work?

Phil Harris

Sep 2, 2019
1 min

ODHIN Trial: Do Alcohol Brief Interventions Work?

The ODHIN Trials are a large scale study exploring the effectiveness of brief interventions in primary care for alcohol problems. As alc...

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Non-Fatal Overdose: Is it a Window of Opportunity for Change?

Phil Harris

Sep 2, 2019
3 min

Non-Fatal Overdose: Is it a Window of Opportunity for Change?

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Evidence Based Practice: The Limits of Modality

Phil Harris

Jul 1, 2019
4 min

Evidence Based Practice: The Limits of Modality

As I have often discuss in this blog, modality-or type of therapy-adds little to clinical outcomes with clients. For example, Orlinsky's...

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Addiction is a Disease Concept Backfires

Phil Harris

May 30, 2019
3 min

Addiction is a Disease Concept Backfires

Research finds that people with substance-use problems who read a message describing addiction as a disease are less likely to report wan...

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Artificial Intelligence Therapist are on Their Way-But What are the Rules?

Phil Harris

May 19, 2019
3 min

Artificial Intelligence Therapist are on Their Way-But What are the Rules?

Interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) will become an increasingly common aspect of our lives. A team at the Technical University...

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Innovative New Programme at Bosence Farm About to Launch

Phil Harris

May 7, 2019
1 min

Innovative New Programme at Bosence Farm About to Launch

I have just completed the design of a hugely innovative detoxification programme with Bosence Farm in Cornwall. The programme takes a new...

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Creating Helping Relationships That Matter

Phil Harris

Mar 28, 2019
1 min

Creating Helping Relationships That Matter

Relationships in and of themselves make a huge difference to treatment outcomes. The American Psychological Association have just conduc...

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The Role of Emotional Expression in Treatment Outcomes

Phil Harris

Mar 20, 2019
1 min

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 o...

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Phil Harris

Feb 13, 2019
2 min

Addiction Dreams Haunt Recovery

Vivid dreams involving drinking and drug use are common among individuals in recovery. A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (M...

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Women in Recovery More Prone to Cocaine Relapse?

Phil Harris

Feb 11, 2019
3 min

Women in Recovery More Prone to Cocaine Relapse?

Women's hormonal cycles may not only make them more prone to drug addiction but also more affected by triggers that lead to relapse, a new...

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Have I Told You About My Self-Disclosure?

Phil Harris

Jan 24, 2019
2 min

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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Detox & Rehab: Latest Study Reveals How Effective They Are

Phil Harris

Jan 24, 2019
2 min

Detox & Rehab: Latest Study Reveals How Effective They Are

There is a widely held myth in community services that impatient services, such as detox and rehab are ineffective. Only recently I read...

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