The New Behavior Online
We’re looking forward to new contributions coming soon from James Pretzer, Karen Levine, 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
- Karen Levine
- 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
Doing versus Being
Anyone who has ever studied a foreign language, knows that with new vocabulary comes new ways of seeing and understanding the world. As an example, if you ask a German to describe a suspension bridge, he is likely to say it is a thing of beauty. However, if you ask a Spaniard to describe... Read More →
Playing With Fear: Treating Phobias in Children with Autism
Here is an example of a method for treating phobias in children with Autism or other Developmental Disabilities (DDs), using the approach we developed, Replays, (e.g. Levine and Chedd, 2007), or Affective Behavioral Play Therapy (ABPT) as we call it for professional consumption. ... Read More →
Treating the Child Under the Behavior: Affect & Relationship in Children with Autism
Most treatment models for mental health problems in children with Developmental Disabilities (DDs) including Autism or Intellectual Disability (e.g. Down syndrome) are based on manipulation of behaviors, with much less, or no emphasis on the child’s affective experiences or on use... Read More →
The Therapeutic Relationship in CBT
In a recent online discussion, a colleague wrote “Perhaps psychodynamic therapists have relied too heavily on the relationship at the expense of client skill-building, while the opposite tends to be true for CBT therapists.” This is a common criticism of CBT, but is there reason to believe that CBT therapists emphasize client skill-building... Read More →
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 →
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 series of experiments, some children were... 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 Paul Ekman’s... 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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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 →