The New Behavior Online
We’re looking forward to new contributions coming soon from James Pretzer, Bill Reid, Dan Short, and other contributors this month. Check back here to see their new articles, front and center! Read More →
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Contributors
- Warren Bennis
- James Brody
- Jessica Broitman
- Elkhonon Goldberg
- John Grohol
- Gilbert Levin
- Marty Klein
- Scott Miller
- Cathy Malchiodi
- Donald Nathanson
- Brian O'Neill
- Martin Perdoux
- James Pretzer
- William Reid
- Matthew Selekman
- Francine Shapiro
- Dan Short
- James Spira
- Henry Stein
- Jeffrey Zeig
Is Your Greatest Liability also Your Greatest Asset?
What happens if you ask a child to look into an empty box and just pretend that something is there? In an interesting Read More →
The Most Powerful Emotion of All
For centuries, poets and priests have reflected on the influence of emotion, noting its ability to suddenly take control of thought and behavior. After reading Read More →
Upending Neodarwinism
The Selfish Gene got it backwards. Dawkins accepted Tennyson’s metaphor of “tooth and claw,” expressed W. D. Hamilton’s ideas in plain language, worked in synchrony with Hawk and Dove fans, and reinforced the image of selfishness “learning”... Read More →
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Emotional Democracy or Dictatorship?
When I talk about the ability to choose an emotional response, this idea is sometimes mistaken for a compulsory task. As one person said, “I have already tried that. Growing up, my father would often say, ‘Force yourself to have a good time,’... Read More →
Transforming Anger and Hate
With 20 plus years of work with angry individuals, in a variety of settings such as prisons, domestic violence programs, school rooms, universities, and in private practice, I have found that the strategies which are most effective... Read More →
34th Cape Cod Institute
The schedule for the 34th Cape Cod Institute, June 17 – August 23, 2013, is complete and the course catalogue, with course descriptions and faculty profiles, is now available online at www.cape.org.
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The Academy of Cognitive Therapy opens new membership levels
Of all the professional associations to which I belong, the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (www.AcademyOfCT.org) is one of the best. I especially value the high levels of CBT discussions and information on the Academy’s ListServ. Until recently, the only way to join the Academy (and be able... Read More →
Alfred Adler’s “The Science of Living” Available Online
At a lecture in Vienna on February 4th, 1930, when Alfred Adler was asked about the best beginning book to read on Individual Psychology, he recommended “The Science of Living.” An online version, in PDF format, with a bookmarked table of contents, is now available at the Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy Subscription Site at... Read More →
Where’s the Money Go?
It Buys the Next Election… “I felt like a protester in Cairo yelling at Mubarak. This guy just doesn’t get it.” James Pethokoukis Last year’s radio ad featured a soft whisper, “I have what you need.” This year we get the same message shouted at Obama’s political rallies. Cell phones, health care waivers, college loans, federal wages... Read More →
New Book on Classical Adlerian Subscription Site
A complete online version of Alexander Mueller’s “You Shall be a Blessing: Main Traits of a Religious Humanism,” is now available at the Classical Adlerian Subscription Site. Mueller’s book presents his thoughts on the deeper philosophical and spiritual aspects of social interest, the roots of which are seen in connection to... Read More →
Using Homework in CBT
The October, 2010 edition of Advances in Cognitive Therapy (the newsletter of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy) is a special issue on homework in CT. Here are a few highlights: Homework assignments are a core feature of Beck’r CBT but some studies have found weak correlations ... Read More →
An Interview with Elkhonon Goldberg
BOL Editor: It’s a pleasure to welcome you here at Behavior OnLine for a discussion of clinical neuropsychology. In keeping with the forum’s title I’ll begin by asking you what is distinctive about 21st century neuropsychology? ELKHONON GOLDBERG: It’s my distinct pleasure to be interviewed on BOL. Neuropsychology wears two... Read More →
Working with Couples: A Gestalt Approach
Gestalt therapy has offered a rather distinctive paradigm from which to view the person and reality. While later theorists such as Yontef, Latner, Parlett and Wheeler have cited field theory (particularly that of Kurt Lewin) as a key pillar or philosophical underpinning to Gestalt therapy, it is the original text of Perls, Hefferleine and Goodman... Read More →
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A Conversation with Warren Bennis
BOL: I hope our conversation will focus on the how-to of intervening in order to enhance the performance of organizations. You are a master of that art, but your most important work has focussed elsewhere: on understanding the nature of the organization, and how those in it can make it better. You have had... Read More →
A Conversation with Henry Stein
BOL: Alfred Adler’s name is better known to today’s therapists than are his ideas and methods. Your dedication to this body of work must be based on the belief that contemporary practice is diminished because Adler’s contributions are not fully enough understood or used currently. What are the... Read More →
A Conversation with Donald Nathanson
BOL: Don, you first became prominent in our field by describing the phenomenon of shame. What is there about shame that makes it important and why did you choose to investigate it?”
NATHANSON: For some years I had been occupied with the problem of what is now called “interaffectivity,” the way each... Read More →