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Therapy Radio brings you the counseling wisdom of Breakthru Counseling Care through the mediums of talk with Talk Therapy Radio, music with Music Therapy Radio, and movies with Movie Therapy Radio.

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Recent Broadcasts

Four Love Series - Three Principles for Love

Published: Sunday, July 13, 2008 05:00 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

1. Gift Love and Need Love are two Dimensions of Love. Need Love is not Selfishness

2. Affection, Friendship, Eros and Compassion Love are Distinct but Inseparable

3. Love matures through Stages

The Colors of Love - Love is a Rainbow

Published: Sunday, July 13, 2008 05:00 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

1. Love is a Temple, Love is a Higher Law

2. Love cannot be converted into rules and external behavior

3. Love requires water (friendship) and fire (passion)

Experiential Family Therapy - Knowing Your Emotions

Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 05:04 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

ASSUMPTIONS:

• Family problems are rooted in suppression of feelings, rigidity, denial of impulses, lack of awareness, emotional deadness, and overuse of defense mechanisms
• Families must get in touch with their REAL feelings
• Therapy works from the Inside Out
• Expanding the individual’s experience opens them up to their experiences and helps to improve the functioning of the family group
• Commitment to emotional well being

Solution Focused Family Therapy - Knowing Your Strengths

Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 05:04 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

ASSUMPTIONS:

• Clients want to change
• There’s no such thing as resistance (clients are telling us how they cooperate)
• Focus on present and future
• Change the way people talk about their problems
• Language creates reality
• Change the way people talk:
-Problem Talk
-Solution Talk
• Therapist and client relationship is key:
-A philosophy not a set of techniques
• Sense of hope “cheerleader effect”
• Don’t focus on the etiology of the problem:
-Solutions are not necessarily related to problems
• Assume the client has strengths, resources
• Only need a small change, which can snowball into a bigger change
• The problem is not occurring all the time

Bowen Family Therapy - Knowing Your Roots

Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 05:04 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

ASSUMPTIONS:

• The past is currently influencing the present
• Change can happen—individuals can move along in the process of differentiation
• Differentiation: ability to maintain self in the face of high anxiety (remain autonomous in a highly emotional situation)
• Differentiation is internal and relational—they are isomorphic
• Anxiety is the driving force inhibiting change (it needs to be reduced to facilitate change)
• High intimacy and high autonomy with a balance is ideal
• Emotions are a physiological process—there is a difference between emotions and feelings; feelings are the thoughts that name and mediate emotions, give them meaning
• Symptoms are indicators of stress, anxiety
• Anyone can become symptomatic with enough stress; more differentiated people will be able to withstand more stress and, when they do become symptomatic, recover more quickly

Narrative Family Therapy - Knowing Your Story

Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 05:04 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

• Personal experience is ambiguous
•Reality is shaped by language used to describe it
• Truth may not match historic truth, but it is true to the client
• Focus on effects of the problem, not the cause (how problem impacts family; how family affects problem)
• Stories organize our experience & shape our behavior
• The Problem is the problem; the person is not the problem
• People “are” the stories they tell
• The stories we tell ourselves are often based on messages received from society or our families
• People have their own unique filters by which they process messages from society

Spiritual Family Therapy - Knowing Your Identity

Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 05:04 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

• Reason is not inherently a threat to faith. Reason can, in fact, be a tremendous help to faith.
• Careful thinking increases comprehension, and increased comprehension deepens religious commitment.
• All truth will be understood in relational frames. For example: Sin, salvation, sanctification, and justification.
• God is a Family and so is His Image
• We will marvel at God’s consistency in his own Person, and in his creation. We will see the forest, the divine tapestry that has been woven in to a complex unity.
• As this is achieved, we will find God working out his Shalom in our midst, knitting together our community into a family of God.
• Dispelling doubt is the most important contribution reason can make to spiritual formation.

Structural Family Therapy - Knowing Your Family Structure

Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 04:58 pm
From: Talk Therapy Radio

ASSUMPTIONS:

• Problems reside within the family structure
• Changing the structure changes the experience the client has
• Don’t go from problem to solution, we just move gradually
• Children’s problems are often related to the boundary between the parents

Spider-Man 3 Director: Sam Raimi - Great Power, Great Responsibilities

Published: Saturday, July 7, 2007 01:01 am
From: Movie Therapy Radio

The Futility of Revenge

• Revenge is Poison

“Vengeance is like a poison that can take you over, and turn you into something ugly” Aunt May

• Life & Death

Health Care - Capital Punishment - Torture
"I don't think it's up to us to say who should live or die” Aunt May

• Evil: External X Internal
Romans 7: 15-20; James 1: 14,15

• The Power of Forgiveness: Spider-Man Forgives Sandman

"Whatever comes our way, whatever battle is raging inside us, we always have a choice. It's the choices that make us what we are, and we can always choose to do the right thing." Peter Parker/Spider-Man

• Shower: Religious significance of Baptism

Sicko (2007) Director: Michael Moore - America as a Humble Power

Published: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:53 am
From: Movie Therapy Radio

• Vulnerable People need Empowerment not Bankruptcy

• A Humble Nation Learn from others

• Self-Absorption is dangerous for individual and nations

• Health Care as a Human Right

• Health Care as a Moral Issue

• Health Care is above Politics

Among the rare gems here is one of Richard Nixon's taped conversations, in the Oval Office with John Ehrlichman on the eve of Nixon's 1971 law promoting managed care. You can rest assured, Ehrlichman promises Nixon, "all the incentives are towards less medical care."

Bobby (2006) Director: Emilio Estevez - The New American Revolution

Published: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:53 am
From: Movie Therapy Radio

• The three American revolutions

• Abolition of Slavery – Abolition of Segregation – Abolition of the Empire of Greed

• “Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it”

• A Revolution is Coming

"A revolution is coming--a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough--But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability."

• The Day of Small Changes

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events...
Each time a man stands up for an ideal...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

• Don't Fear the Path of Truth
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." June 6th, 1968 (From the last speech Bobby gave) At a time when through out the world we seem to have lost our way and our belief in our political leaders is perhaps at its lowest ebb…. we see a reminder of what we had lost.

Shut Up & Sing (2006) - Director: Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck - Free Speech, Democracy & Hatred

Published: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:53 am
From: Movie Therapy Radio

• Dixie Chicks’ anti-war views triggers financial war against the group

• The Tyranny of Media Monopoly
• Dixie Chick’s Principle Oriented Refusal to Bow
• Democracy includes Safety in Diversity
• Free Speech is a Mental Health Factor

“It seemed like traditional values had been temporarily suspended. I didn't recognize this country, we didn't know what year it was and we didn't know what country we were in. The Republicans and right-wing groups were very organized and they knew exactly what they were doing. It seems like our media is dominated by right-wing media moguls like Rupert Murdoch (Fox News). If you don't share their opinions, they label you as a terrorist or a person who doesn't have any family values. Unfortunately, people in the US who don't have the time to seek out the truth through neutral news sources have a real problem” Natalie Maines

Paris Hilton - Change is Possible

Published: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:09 am
From: Talk Therapy Radio

• I believe in personal dignity

• The Power of Gossip

• Gossip make us feel good and superior

• A New Heart is Free

• Self-Justification is Useless

• Favorite Bible Verse is a Silly Question

• Suspicion generates bad results

• Suspicion is a “prophetic gift”

• Change is Possible and Achievable

Not Ready To Make Nice By Dixie Chicks (2006) - Forgiveness Path to Recovery

Published: Monday, February 26, 2007 09:37 pm
From: Music Therapy Radio

• Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I'm not sure I could.
Especially religious oriented people are eager to overlook problems to embrace cheap forgiveness in the name of peacemaking. This is a form of self-deception, dishonesty and self-violation.

• They say time heals everything, But I'm still waiting…
Time does not stop the bleeding, and doesn’t heal, actually, kills. Peacemaking becomes a possibility after the bleeding has ended.

•I'm still mad as hell it means, nothing has happened to pave the way for forgiveness. Forgiveness requires a Bridge of Empathy, but empathy requires a change of interaction and an interaction of change.

• Why can't you just get over it Get over the problem is a form of denial of reality or the beginning of insanity.

• I made by bed, and I sleep like a baby Expressions of anger feelings are healthy and needed.

• That they'd write me a letter Saying that I better shut up and sing Or my life will be over America has changed for worse after 9/11. Intolerance has raised to unprecedented levels. This is a national systemic pathology.The exercise of democracy must make it safe to hold opposing views free from fear and retaliation.

Nice is a vague and empty word apart from acknowledgment of wrongdoing.

Hotel California - A Rich Therapy Resource

Published: Monday, February 26, 2007 08:00 pm
From: Music Therapy Radio

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

Eagles: 1976

The Lyrics of Hotel California is a rich Therapy Resource. We encourage you to print a copy of the lyrics as you review this outline and listen to the podcast.

Points to Consider:

•Don’t make crucial decisions in life when you feel in doubt. This could be Heaven or this could be Hell

•Don’t make important decisions when your mind is cloudy and your emotions are vulnerable. I had to stop for the night.

•The here and now may change your destination

•Easy alternatives may have difficult consequences. Plenty of room (…) Any time of Year.

•Some dance to remember, some dance to forget. Drinking to numb your pain may result in addiction.

•And still those voices are calling from far away. Life has a way of moving prime pleasure to peak boredom.

•We are all just prisoners here, of our own device. Therapy is liberation from internal and external imprisonments. Usually, our worse enemies are from within.

•They just can’t kill the beast. The beast is the symbolic representation our personal traumas and self- harm. It requires a killing process rather than a killing event.

•You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave! In this context you can never leave means you can never deny or ignore. Addressing your "hidden"issues consummates your checkout process.

A Beautiful Mind (2001) - The Necessity of a Breakthru in Mental Health

Published: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:47 am
From: Movie Therapy Radio

1.Traditional misunderstandings of Mental Illness: Demon Possession
2.The Double Wounding of the Mentally Sick
3.Harry Sullivan as Insight in The Psychiatric Interview
4.Bono and the Power of Humility
5.Colin A. Ross: Most "mental disorders" are trauma related
6.The Power of Word to Heal and to Harm
7.The Imperative of Comprehensive Care (It Takes a Village)
8.Medication is needed but does not cure
9.Communities of Acceptance X Communities of Rejection
10.The Brazilian Lectures by Dr. Wilfred Byon (Insight and Wisdom)
11.How we live our lives in the present is how we gain control over the future?
12.The Battle against Mental Sickness includes a Fight Against Fear. Fear is at the core of many pathologies
13.Roman Empire symbol of evil (666) Today as symbolic number for evil is (9/11)
14.A Positive Perspective for a Global Sunshine Future
15.We all need Friends and Encouragement
16.The importance of human touch

Counseling Perspectives on Amadeus - Salieri?s Journey from Jealousy to Madness

Published: Sunday, September 25, 2005 07:22 pm
From: Movie Therapy Radio

1.Jealousy
2.Anger
3.Hatred
4.Violent Thoughts
5.Suicide Attempt
6.Anger at God (Analogy: Cain & Abel)
7.Plot to kill Mozart
8.Admission of Personal Mediocrity
9.Admission of Mozart as Bold, Brilliant Genius
10.Madness driven by Guilt
11.Inter-dependency as an alternative to madness

DSM-IV Application:

Dissociative Identity Disorder
Eating Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Self- Mutilation
Suicide
Dementia

Ethical Reflections based on the movie Cider House Rules - The Rules of the Heart

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2005 09:32 pm
From: Movie Therapy Radio

As Jeff Shannon comments, in adapting his own novel The Cider House Rules for the screen, John Irving sacrificed at least some of the depth and detail that made his humanitarian themes resonate, while the film--directed with Scandinavian sobriety by Lasse Hallstram--is often vague about the complex issues (abortion, incest, responsibility) that lie at its core. Allowing for this ambiguity (which is arguably intentional), the film retains much of what made Irving's novel so admired, and like Hallstram's earlier feature What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, it's enriched with a generous, forgiving spirit toward the mistakes, foibles, and desires of its many engaging characters. In this sense, the movie is an expression of realistic compassion in the context of human failures. Our recorded perspective avoids divisive topics in our search for ethical development

Central to the story (set during World War II) is Homer (Tobey Maguire), a young man raised in a Maine orphanage, where the ether-sniffing Dr. Larch (Michael Caine) rules with benevolent grace while performing safe but illegal abortions. To expand his horizons, Homer follows a young couple (Charlize Theron, Paul Rudd) to do fieldwork on an apple farm, where his innocent eyes are opened to the good and evil of the world--and to the realization that not all rules are steadfast in all situations. Homer's love relationship with Candy suggests the importance of personal responsibility and decision making as opposed to wait and see and doing nothing as a valid ethical approach. The alternative to intentional personal choice is manipulation based on casual and selfish needs. This podcasting presentation also explores three different ways of using Hebrew and Christian Scriptures in the process of resolving ethical dilemmas.
This movie amplifies the words of Jeremiah 17:9: The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful,a puzzle that no one can figure out.

Counseling Perspectives on Spider-Man 1 & 2 - A Champion of the Common Men. Is he within each one of us?

Published: Sunday, August 14, 2005 08:32 pm
From: Movie Therapy Radio

Spider Man is viewed in this talk show through counseling lenses as the following themes are explored:

1. A concept of power based on Peter Parker exercise of his super spider resources as a champion of the common men
2. Power as an expression of insanity (intelligence without wisdom)
3. The principle that with great power comes great responsibilities
4. The view of dream as the justification for living
5. Life can be scary and dangerous even among our closest relationships
6. Understanding Grief with Ambiguity
7. The potential unfairness of life
8. Your gift can be your curse, and your curse can be your blessing
9. Mary Jane Watson and the principle of individuality
10. Those who care for others may be in need of finding someone to save their own lives

How To Love Well - Exploring Love Through The Movie Love Actually

Published: Monday, August 8, 2005 10:00 am
From: Movie Therapy Radio

It is the first podcasting presentation of Movie Therapy Radio whose programing discusses in a conversational style counseling perspectives from the movies. This first "show" is based and inspired by the excellent movie Love Actually (2003). Now available in DVD by Universal Studios Home Video. What follows is an incomplete list of counseling themes reviewed by Dr. Hannibal Silver:

1. Love Grows Through Stages
2. Love Creates Healthy Boundaries
3. Love is Single Minded
4. Four Expressions of Love: Affection, Friendship, Eros, Compassion
5. Physical Attraction X Personal Attraction
6. Love is not Addictive
7. Love Can be Painful
8. Love is an Art & a Discipline