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3 Ways Fathers Can Empower their Teenage Daughters.

August 20, 2017

1. Read the manual: It takes work to understand our daughters. It is a common human reaction to avoid situations where we feel incompetent. Teenage daughters often awaken that feeling in their fathers, who, like a deer in the headlights, are frozen with bewilderment. As one exacerbated father said: “I run a successful company and deal with people from all over the world, but I have no idea what to do about my 15-year-old daughter, I just don’t get her,…

AI Psychotherapy: My Ideal Therapist?

August 15, 2017

Legault, Psychologist-Psychologue

Psychology and technology

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Artificial intelligence, in all its forms, is on its way to disrupting many industries. Those in the know agree the current media hype is unwarranted due to the limitations of current deep learning models, hardware and messy databases. But AI has captured the imagination of the general public leading to an overflow of speculative possibilities. As a clinical psychologist I have had the opportunity to observe the evolving field of psychotherapy over the past 30 years. From the client centered,…

25 000 hours: What my Clients Have Taught Me.

August 13, 2017

Legault, Psychologist-Psychologue

Psychotherapy

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Psychotherapy as Co-Creative. This ongoing series is my attempt to distil and share the wisdom that my clients have shared with me over the course of 20 years and 25 000 hours of psychotherapy practice. Psychotherapy as co-creative. My clients have taught me that psychotherapy is a co-creative process, where both therapist and client start with a blank canvas and co-jointly create forms, narratives, and music with the raw material from the client’s life. Since all creative endeavours necessitate a…