Licensed Psychologist & Humor Consultant
Director of Psychological Services
INTROSPECT of BuxMont
2321 Broad Street
Colmar, PA 18915215-997-9596
fax: 215-997-9409Click the following to read Phyliss Shanken's essay entitled:
What to Expect in Therapy & Why I Love My Job: An essay by Phyliss Shanken
Click the following to learn about Phyliss Shanken's screenplay entitled:
BIOGRAPHY
Phyliss Shanken is a licensed psychologist and Director of Psychological Services at INTROSPECT of BuxMont. She specializes in the psychotherapeutic treatment of adolescents and adults in individual, group, couples and family psychotherapy:
- anxiety
- depression
- eating disorders
- pain management
- relationships
- self-esteem & confidence
- stress
She is founder of INTROSPECT's Women's Actualization and Food Abuse programs, and has developed a fresh approach to the treatment of eating disorders which combines insight, metaphor, group dynamics and relationship-oriented psychotherapy in an intensive outpatient setting.
She collaborates extensively with physicians and with INTROSPECT's dietitian to design an outpatient treatment team. The goal is for patients to reach successful outcomes without having to be hospitalized or enrolled in partial hospital programs.
As an organizational and HUMOR consultant, Phyliss Shanken designs and facilitates programs for industrial, professional and educational groups. She helps groups learn to accept each other's differences and to understand how and why humor can be abused.
As a public speaker to over 300 hundred audiences, her most popular topics include:
- Laughter & Stress
- Food Abuse
- Helping People Cope With Physical and Emotional Pain
- Assertiveness and Self-Confidence
- Diversity
- Love
- Women's Issues
- Coping with Change
- Parenting
Phyliss Shanken has conducted staff development training and lectured on eating disorders at such facilties as Renfrew Center, Belmont, and others. She sits on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Bulimia and Anorexia (AABA).
PUBLICATIONS
Phyliss Shanken, M.A. has been published in numerous psychological, review and literary journals, has received literary awards and has been a newspaper columnist. A few years ago, she wrote about diversity issues in her monthly column, Grassroots, which appeared in Next Step: A Magazine About People Coming Together.
Phyliss Shanken designed INTROSPECT's Eating Obsessions Quiz, is author of the book, Silhouettes of Woman and Laughter is a StressBuster. She is a contributor to the anthology, From Eulogy to Joy. Her current book in progress is entitled, CONVERSATIONS WITH PERFECT STRANGERS : Memoirs of a Psychologist.
She was a script consultant for Susan Seidelman's feature, Boyton Beach. Her current screenplay is LOVE ON THE OTHER SIDE, for which she has received awards.
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** Click the following to read Phyliss Shanken's essay entitled:
** Click the following to take the Eating Obsessions Quiz designed by Phyliss Shanken.
** Click the following to read Phyliss Shanken's original article on RSD. Comments about this article from Michele Langstaff, a fellow RSD sufferer: ” I feel a mixture of gratitude, relief, a sense of “hurray” someone is expressing to the world what it’s like to have RSD, from the inside out. It’s easy to find clinical descriptions of the disorder, but this allows someone who has not had it, to have some grasp of how it feels, physically, psychologically, emotionally. I related to so many things that you said...how you felt about/were treated by the western medical system, a general hyper-sensitivity before coming down with RSD, the myriad of methods you concocted to make your life more bearable, reaction to the support group, and on and on.”
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: A Personal Perspective by a Psychologist.
** Click the following to read Phyliss Shanken's essay about pain management of RSD as seen on the RSDSA website. Comments about this article from Michele Langstaff, a fellow RSD sufferer:”Thank you for your compassionate and understanding article published on the RSDSA web site. It is an enormous help to have something like this from a professional.”
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** Click the following to view an article on PERSONAL COACHING portions of which were published in The Inuiry in March 2005:
** Click the following to view:
Everything is Funny-- As Long As It's Happening to Someone Else!
** Click the following to see Phyliss Shanken's web page on Psychology Today Website:
** Click the following to read group agreement for Group Therapy and a letter from a former group member:
Group Agreement for Group Therapy
Letter from Former Group Member
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