Rapid Relief

Emotional Distress>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>Emotional Confidence

“CHANGE” THINKING

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Rapid Relief!

Rapid Relief from Emotional Distress: Revised 2010 and 2022

James E. Campbell, M.D.

Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist

Who should read this book?

-anyone who is struggling with life events

-anyone who has a loved one who is struggling 

-anyone who would like to understand the healthy mechanics of living better

-anyone who read the original book.

How is this book different from other self-help books? I am not giving you X # of things you need to do to help yourself. I am showing you how some of the common things you do daily actually lead to a painful conclusion and how to reverse that process. 

This book is dedicated to all my patients over the years that have allowed me to practice on them, who have shown me when I was doing something useful by getting better, and who have insisted I get it right by returning.

· Understand how “change strategies” are actually detrimental to you.

· Define words in ways that help to understand and resolve problems.

· Become more effective in letting go of psychological pain.

· See how your thinking creates your psychological pain.

· Identify the role language has in complicating your life.

· Take action through the ACT formula.

· Help you apply the Choice System of thinking.

· Get rid of the anger experience.

· Create better self-esteem.

· Put response-ability into practice.

· Learn techniques to get relief in nearly any situation.

· To feel better

LEARN HOWYOU CREATE YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN

GET A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHANGE AND CHOICE

LEARN HOW TO BUILD INTIMACY, AND RECOGNIZE WHY IT IS LOST 

IDENTIFY HOW LABELS BECOME A BURDON

SEPARATE THE CHOICE WORLD FROM THE CHANGE WORLD

IDENTIFYING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD

DEFINE RESPONSE-ABILITY SO IT WORKS FOR YOU 

UNDERSTAND WHY ACCOUNTABILITY IS MERELY A CONVENTION 

SEE HOW YOU CAN GET RELIEF FOR LIFE

CONTENTS:

HOW TO GET RAPID RELIEF

KNOW THAT YOU CREATE YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHANGE AND CHOICE

HOW TO BUILD INTIMACY

LIFE & LABELS

SEPARATE THE CHOICE WORLD FROM THE CHANGE WORLD

IDENTIFYING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD

RESPONSE-ABILITY

ACCOUNTABILITY

RELIEF FOR LIFE

OTHER CONCEPT TO HELP GET RID OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN

EMOTIONAL CRISES MANAGEMENT

INFLUENCES ON YOUR ACCEPTOR

THINKING STRATEGIES

HOW TO CREATE WHAT YOU WANT

STRATEGIES FOR TAKING ACTION

SUGGESTIONS FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU READ 

THE DELEMMA OF BEING DELUSIONAL

HOW TO PICK A THERAPIST

DEFINITIONS

SEE HOW TO GET RAPID RELIEF

Rapid relief is possible! Psychological pain is optional!

LEARN HOW TO LET GO OF ANGER . 

Affairs can often be predictable

Learn to be creative.

LEARN HOW TO BUILD INTIMACY

See why living in the Choice System simplifies your life 

Understand how self-acceptance aligns you with reality. 

Become familiar with how thoughts create experiences/feelings. 

LEARN STRATEGIES FOR TAKING ACTION

 AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION It has been said that doctors go to scientific meetings to learn what their colleagues can teach them, and they go to the office to learn what their patients can teach them.  

Psychological Therapy in a Pharmacological World: a book intended for physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists or counselors, 

Psychiatric Challenges >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>Emotional Stability

“Psychiatric Disorder or Life Challenge?”

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James E. Campbell, M.D.

Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist

Psychological Therapy in a Pharmacological World has been written to encourage an alternative look at current day approaches to psychiatric therapy, and to share with my colleagues' insights I have gained over 40 years of practice. 

• See how your thinking actually creates your psychological pain.
• Understanding the psychological world from a different vantage point.
• See how accurate speech helps to understand and resolve many psychiatric problems.
• Find how and why immediate relief from psychological pain is possible.
• Why some depressions are better off not being treated as depression.
• Learn how to teach your patients to get rid of anger forever.
• Understand the childhood belief system which generates adult psychopathology.
• Learn how a better definition of responsibility can help solve problems during therapy.
• Find new ways to look at guilt and shame. 
• Learn to use psychological language to treat psychological problems. 
• See how educating can extinguish many psychiatric problems.

Who should read this book?

-anyone who does therapy,

-any therapist looking for a quicker way to help people,

-any physician who wants a quick intervention to help psychiatric, or non-psychiatric, patients with life issues, 

-anyone wanting a simple model to understand people’s behavior,

-anyone interested in the way a therapy approach was born.

On Consciousness and Psychotherapy (the forward to Dr. Campbell’s Psychological Therapy in a Pharmacological World)  Per Thomas Bittker, M.D.

"Forty years ago, while I was in the process of attempting to promulgate my own modest revolution on how we deliver psychiatric services to a community, I confronted another young psychiatrist who had been part of a group which I perceived to be the psychiatric political establishment in this community. Many in the group were so challenged by my efforts as to question my ethics in developing an alternative system of care.  In the midst of the intense evening discussion that followed I was able to engage Dr. Campbell and found in him a kindred spirit who had the capacity to rise above the rigidity of thought that often imprisons us. Together we were able to achieve a creative resolution to our differences. Since then, I have considered Jim both friend and a most creative thinker.

This book is one of a series of books that challenges how we think about life, suffering and how best to enlighten those that turn to us for guidance. The book arrives at a critical historical nexus, and if we read it carefully, we can see a way out of our current morass in providing cost-effective psychiatric and psychological treatment.

Dr. Campbell cautions us that we have become too reliant on a strict pharmacological model of diagnosing and treating psychiatric disorders. Not that medications are not useful, but an over-reliance on drugs not only causes us to risk mistreating our patients, but it dis-empowers them. 

If we can appreciate that much of what contributes to our suffering springs from how we think about ourselves, our history and relationships, and we are capable of reframing these experiences, then we are free to select new ways of thinking and may empirically test this in our daily lives.

From Dr. Campbell’s perspective how we think, listen and speak powerfully influences how we feel and live. It expands our consciousness and our power over our lives.

His book is an exceptional guidebook to a healthier perspective on our lives and warrants inclusion as an essential adjunct to the psychotherapy of our patients. Indeed, for many individuals it may be sufficiently powerful to reduce their reliance on excessive pharmacotherapy and excessive dependence on their psychotherapists. The latter may be seen as a threat to some, but given the constraints on our current health care system, any effort such as this that empowers our patients to help themselves warrants enthusiastic support."

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CONTENTS:

UNDERSTANDING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL WORLDS BETTER

A DIFFERENT WAY TO APPROACH THE UNDERSTANDING OF DEPRESSION: AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM 1 AND SYSTEM 2 THINKING

THE OTHER DEPRESSION: THE ONE RELATED TO NEED FOR OUTCOMES TO BE DIFFERENT

THE BLEME SYSTEM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO DEPRESSION 

MISUNDERSTANDING CAUSE AND EFFECT AND SEQUENTIAL ORDERING OF EVENTS CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS 

A CLEAR LOOK AT RESPONSIBILITY AND WHY WE NEED A NEW DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF THE WORD 

A LOOK AT ASSIGNED ACCOUNTABILITY AND WHY WE NEED A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT 

ACCURATE SPEECH: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS 

ANGER: WHAT CAUSES IT AND HOW TO GET RID OF IT 

UNDERSTANDING THE DIRECT EFFECT OF BLAMING ON CREATING PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS 

THE PROS AND CONS OF EMPATHY: HOW BEING EMPATHIC CAN CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS THAN BENEFITS 

WHY IMMEDIATE RELIEF OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN IS POSSIBLE 

UNDERSTANDING INTERNAL CONSISTENCY AND INTERNAL INCONSISTENCY 

USEFUL WAYS TO DEFINE GUILT AND SHAME AND HOW TO GET RID OF EACH 

UNDERSTANDING CHANGE AND CONTROL AS THEY RELATE TO SYMPTOM FORMATION 

WHY CURRENT PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO PSYCHIATRY ARE NOT REALLY PSYCHOLOGICAL 

USE OF AWARENESS CARDS 

THE SPECIAL CASE OF THE BORDERLINE DISORDERED PATIENT 

COMMENTS ABOUT EDUCATION AND MENTAL HEALTH 

NEED FOR DISTINCT BOUNDARIES IN OUR LVES 

SOME ADVANTAGES TO WHAT I AM SUGGESTING AS IT RELATES TO TODAY’S MANAGED CARE SYSTEM 

GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS 

INTERPRETATIONS OF EVENTS LEAD TO FEELINGS

THE DEPRESSIVE EXPERIENCE IN CHILDREN 

HOW THIS APPROACH IS DIFFERENT FROM A. BECK CBT 

QUESTIONNAIRE USED TO HELP DETERMINE SYSTEM ONE THINKING 

EXPLANATION SHEET USED TO EXPLAIN SYSTEM ONE THINKING TO PATIENTS 

REFERENCES

APPENDIX: 

INTAKE EVALUATION: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 

INTAKE EVALUATION: ADULTS 

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The art of accurate speech and other ways to help students (children) not become psychiatric patients.

Teaching children to speak accurately can eliminate a huge number of adult problems.

Who should read this book?

-teachers.

-anyone who is struggling with raising or teaching children.

-anyone with a loved one who is struggling with life events,

-anyone who would like to understand the healthy mechanics of living better.

OVERVIEW: THE DILEMMA OF BEING DELUSIONAL

Teachers (parents), are you aware younger children (less than 12 years of age) are delusional? You may have had reason to think something was wrong with the majority of children, but you may not have figured out what it was.

Most adults are not good at reasoning. In our society, we have a lot of stereotypes for people who do not reason well: she is just blonde, his brain is between his legs. It is sad, but most people do not think very accurately. It is not easy to do when we deny the obvious, when we see only what we want to see, when we let our feelings, or our biases, overrun our judgment, and when we do not make an effort to think through the consequences of either our thoughts or our actions.

Another component of inaccurate thinking and subsequently inaccurate speech occurs when children and adults do not discern between cause and effect and sequential ordering of events. 

Do you know the necessary components to actually be responsible for something?  

Aggression is attributed to as many different causes as is suicide. Is the same factor present in both? 

The two major issues in life are not Freud’s Oedipus complex and penis envy, they are lying (dishonesty) and blaming. In Sophocles’ Oedipus, Oedipus did not want to kill his father and marry his mother as Freud suggested the average boy (child) desires; in fact, Oedipus found it so undesirable and repulsive, he blinded himself when he understood what he had done.

There is a lot of misunderstanding regarding emotions. Some teachers believe they should support whatever emotion children demonstrate. There is also a movement suggesting emotions are intelligent. I encourage a great deal of caution toward either of these points of view. The group who supports children’s emotions, regardless of what they are, is generally attempting to be empathic. 

One piece of information needed to solve psychological problems is why it is not good, useful, healthy or helpful to avoid dealing with, thinking about or confronting unpleasant events in our lives.  

Learn why the experience of shame is usually an episodic event. 

A dynamic that children do not understand very well is how someone’s unhappiness with them can progress to their working for that person. It is generally nice when people like us and want to please us, but this can become a living nightmare when it goes too far. Whether it is related to the boy wanting the girl to like him, the girl wanting the boy to like her, or the child wanting the teacher or the parent to like them, it is important for the child to understand how needing to have others like them can turn them into servants.

Current speech patterns predict future behavior.  

Developmentally, nature has presented us with a real ongoing challenge. For reasons, one might assume are related to survival of the species, we have been left with a system of thinking commonly present in the first twelve to thirteen years of our lives which is totally inaccurate.

GUILT AND SHAME (on line only) 

Who should read this book?

-anyone who is struggling with life events.

-anyone who has a loved one who is struggling with guilt feelings,

-anyone who would like to understand the healthy mechanics of living better.

-anyone who does not know the difference between them.

This book explores the confusion people have about guilt and shame and describes how to understand an get rid of both.

 A book looking at the state of affairs in the U.S. today from the standpoint of what determines the truth and who is telling it. 

Who should read this book?

-anyone who is struggling with current political events,

-anyone who has a loved one who is struggling with understanding gaslighting,

-anyone who would like to understand the healthy mechanics of living better,

-anyone who read Academia, Psychiatry, and the Elite Left.

This book challenges the reader to address things being said on both sides of the political coin with some sort of reasoning. What reasoning makes sense to the reader and do facts (when they are more than just opinion) matter?

Whose Truth Matters? 

President Biden and his followers “choose truth over fact.” This book looks at some of the pitfalls of that approach. If one chooses truth over fact does that eliminate the scientific method which is based on fact? If I choose truth over fact when I testify in court, am I allowed to ignore the evidence (facts) in the case and simply go with my gut? There are over 4000 religions (estimate) in the world, reflecting that there is little agreement on what is the truth. If I force the people over whom I reign, to accept only my truth have I not established myself the head of a new authoritarianism religion and a totalitarianism government? Should teachers be allowed to ignore the books chosen for them to teach from and substitute their own truth in its place? Should the police simply decide guilt or innocence on the spot based on their assessment of the truth? (It would save a lot of court time and we could get rid of prosecutors and defenders and maybe even those troublesome judges.)

These are merely a small scattering of the ideas touched on in this book. 

Perhaps as you read this you can help me figure out how we can arrive at the truth and at the same time ignore reason and fact. The alternatives to facts seem pretty sinister, but I keep looking for the non-facts that support truth. I take a few shots at my professional family (Psychiatric Assoc.) as well as some in the worthless and dishonest media.

The book also addresses the issues raised around gun control and looks at solutions that would actually help people. 

This book challenges the reader to address things being said by the Elite Left of the political coin with some sort of reasoning. What reasoning makes sense to the reader and do facts (when they are more than just opinion) matter?

There has been an attempt to address the issues from the three disciplines academia, psychiatry and the elite left. 

HOW TO GET RAPID RELIEF

KNOW THAT YOU CREATE YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHANGE AND CHOICE

HOW TO BUILD INTIMACY

LIFE & LABELS

SEPARATE THE CHOICE WORLD FROM THE CHANGE WORLD

IDENTIFYING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD

RESPONSE-ABILITY

ACCOUNTABILITY

RELIEF FOR LIFE

OTHER CONCEPT TO HELP GET RID OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN

EMOTIONAL CRISES MANAGEMENT

INFLUENCES ON YOUR ACCEPTOR

THINKING STRATEGIES

HOW TO CREATE WHAT YOU WANT

STRATEGIES FOR TAKING ACTION

SUGGESTIONS FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU READ 

THE DELEMMA OF BEING DELUSIONAL

HOW TO PICK A THERAPIST

DEFINITIONS

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