PRACTICAL OPTIMISM
Many patients with a diagnosis of depression experience hopelessness. They are not helped by a medical model that tells them that they have a chemical imbalance that cannot be resolved and is best treated with medications, that their symptoms will probably worsen as they age and that the disease of depression can result in suicide. This model is presented as a ‘Truth’.
I will present a model for treating depression that utilizes Practical Optimism. Practical Optimism pre-supposes that Depression is a state of mind and that Depression can be resolved by editing hopeless, negative, dysfunctional, maladaptive Meta-Programs that have been established over a lifetime.
Positive Reframing, Role Modelling, Challenging Hopeless and Negative Meta-Programs, Anchoring Positive Resources, Setting Positive Outcomes, Challenging Negative Sensory Filters and Challenging Negative Self-Beliefs are just some of the Neurolinguistic Programming techniques that can be used to resolve Depression.
Dr. David Murphy is a Physician. He has a special interest in the treatment of Chronic Pain and is a Pain Specialist, who provides expert opinion on Chronic Pain in court. He provides an holistic treatment program for Chronic Pain that focuses on the wellness of the patient by combining psychotherapy treatment and medication management to optimize the patient’s mental, physical, emotional and spiritual state.
Dr. Murphy is an Anesthesiologist and a Certified General Practice Psychotherapist with a private medical practise in Barrie, Ontario. He is a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming.