During the course of recovery, patients might get disillusioned with their treatment and start resisting it. Many people find it hard to go through the treatment without understanding its fundamentals.
Psychiatrist Francis Mas, MD describes to The Fix how he treats patients who are treatment resistant, and explains the idea of “background noise”.
How Psychiatric “Background Noise” Interferes with Optimal Functioning
An eminent psychopharmacologist works like a detective to help patients gain access to their inner core of strength.
In practice for almost 40 years, Francis Mas, MD, has become a “psychiatrist’s psychiatrist” because of his mastery in treating treatment-resistant and complex cases, working with patients who often feel depleted by multiple previous treatment failures. One reason for his success is his ability to quickly form a positive therapeutic working alliance with patients by framing their psychiatric symptoms as “background noise” that is interfering with their access to inner resources of their core self. This paradigm allows him to operate with a shared language that patients and consulting psychotherapists can use to communicate about the vicissitudes of the patient’s clinical presentation and ability to do deeper work on the essential psychic issues. Working like a detective in search of clues as to the nature of diagnosis, exploring the difficult niches found between categorical DSM approaches, Dr. Mas’s goal is to help his patients gain access to their authentic natures. Here, he explains the origins of his approach and highlights its application in his work with a patient with an unusual clinical presentation…Richard Juman, PsyD. See full post
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