James Pretzer Archives
The Therapeutic Relationship in CBT
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
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 at the ...
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 ...
Using Homework in CBT
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
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 ...
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...