Monthly Archives: March 2011
The Academy of Cognitive Therapy opens new membership levels
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
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 to read the ListServ) was to ...
Upending Neodarwinism
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
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" cooperation. (Irony: all of this happened despite tenuous degrees of kinship between the investigators!)
Strogatz ...
Welcome to the New Behavior Online
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Welcome to the New Behavior Online. We've switched over to a blog format, to better allow people to comment on posts, and to encourage an engaging and thoughtful conversation. So come join us today!
Why Did You Switch?
We found the forum software to be ill-suited for the types of content and conversation we want to encourage. ...
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... 
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... 
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...