The Pull of Nostalgia & Empathy
July 4, 2014 by Brad Sachs
Filed under Cognitive Therapy
A parent’s capacity to raise a thoughtful, self-assured child depends on his/her capacity to respond empathically to that child. Much of the work that I am doing as a family therapist is designed to initiate and animate the empathic enterprise, since it is such a crucial component of healthy attachment between both generations. One of […]
The Therapeutic Relationship in CBT
May 16, 2013 by James Pretzer
Filed under Cognitive Therapy, Soapbox
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 […]
A Conversation with Donald Nathanson
March 18, 2000 by Gil Levin
Filed under Conversations
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 of us gets […]
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,... 
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...