Robert "Bob" Fancher, Ph.D. — Contributor
Bob Fancher came of age in Mississippi during the Sixties. With the utter upending of “the Mississippi way of life” during the civil rights movement, Bob realized painfully how profoundly wrong a culture's most deeply held values and beliefs can be. When he lost his Southern Baptist faith in college—Bob's dad was a preacher, and his mother a popular religious writer and a leader among Baptist women; Bob had planned to become a preacher himself—the lesson was indelibly reinforced.
Back then, Bob thought that someday he would find a place where everyone served truth, beauty, and justice. After a couple of decades of searching, he reluctantly concluded that notion was in error.
In counseling, Bob has a special interest in working with highly intelligent misfits and those who are skeptical of mental health care.
Intellectually, besides trying to understand generally how life works, he has a special interest in identifying and evaluating unstated assumptions, unrecognized consequences, and unacknowledged agendas.
Bob was educated as a philosopher at Vanderbilt University and trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at Blanton Peale Graduate Institute. He practiced psychotherapy for many years in New York City and now maintains a counseling practice, Life Therapy Counseling Services available at http://therapypdx.com, in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of Health and Suffering in America: The Context and Content of Mental Health Care and Pleasures of Small Motions: Mastering the Mental Game of Pocket Billiards.
The following are Robert's contributions to MentalHelp.Net
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Psychotherapy
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When we’re in emotional trouble, and our friends and family get to their wits’ end with trying to help us, they’re likely to... Read More
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Part Two of this series can be found here. Why ask the question, Why bother with truthfulness? Everybody’s in favor of truthfulness, right? Yeah... Read More
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Part One of this series can be found here. I see about twenty-five patients most weeks, and probably say a few hundred things I do... Read More
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
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Someone To Talk ToJul 28, 2010
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Truth, Effectiveness, And Mental Health: Part OneMay 27, 2010
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Psychotherapy
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“Thanks for being patient,” the guy (let’s call him Joe) said as he shook my hand and left the office. He’d... Read More
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In my father’s time of dying, I learned some things that therapy never taught me. My father’s cancer diagnosis came in the Spring... Read More
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You would think a concept as central to mental health ideology as “boundaries” would have a fairly strong scientific basis. After all, when mental... Read More
Family & Relationship Issues
Psychotherapy