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Emotional Democracy or Dictatorship?
Monday, May 6th, 2013
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,’ and I am sick of hearing that because it does not work!” For this person, there was no freedom of expression.
Transforming Anger and Hate
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
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 for transforming raging behaviors are rarely discovered without professional help. Unfortunately, mainstream therapy also misses the boat on occasion, employing the same general strategy as the unstudied amateur.
34th Cape Cod Institute
Friday, January 25th, 2013
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.
Here is the entire schedule of courses.
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 ...
Alfred Adler’s “The Science of Living” Available Online
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
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 ...
Where’s the Money Go?
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
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, ...
New Book on Classical Adlerian Subscription Site
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
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 man's relationship with ...
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 ...
An Interview with Elkhonon Goldberg
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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 hats as ...
Working with Couples: A Gestalt Approach
Monday, July 26th, 2004
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 ...
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...