Barbara Fredrickson and Love 2.0: some questions
14th October 2015
I wrote a short post appreciating Barbara Fredrickson's research and her interesting & challenging book "Love 2.0" a couple of months ago. Here's a short 2-3 minute YouTube video of Barbara introducing these ideas and here's her "on song" in a 11-12 minute TEDx talk. It's such a wonder of …
Learning about aging from a trip South visiting friends
12th October 2015
Catero, my wife, and I are just back from four days in the South visiting friends. We're blessed with some lovely friendships but, partly because most of us live pretty busy lives, it's easy not to see people who live quite far away for months or even years. A while …
Don Baucom on couple-based interventions for anxiety disorders
29th September 2015
Just about to start the second day of this two day workshop led by Professor Don Baucom on "Couple-Based Interventions for Anxiety Disorders". We're here at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in London's East End. St Katharine's aims to provide a "sense of an oasis in the city" and …
Complicated grief - how common is it?
24th September 2015
I recently wrote a blog post "Grief is our natural human response to bereavement" where I said that mourning may well involve powerful feelings of yearning, disbelief, anger & depression. When we have lost someone who has been very important to us, we gradually need to learn to live without …
Grief is our natural human response to bereavement
22nd September 2015
When we're badly physically injured, there may be horrible pain and loss of ability to function normally. Then though there is typically a gradual recovery. Scars may be left; there may be some persisting vulnerability, but basically our bodies are wonderful at self-healing. There are parallels between wounds due to …
Recent research: articles from summer 2015 journals
29th August 2015
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains well over 22,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …
Barbara Fredrickson and Love 2.0: some appreciations
26th August 2015
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." Ursula Le Guin In July last year, I heard Barbara Fredrickson lecturing at the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology in Amsterdam. It was a fascinating talk putting forward …
Warwick BABCP conference: 3rd day - what personal qualities distinguish more & less effective therapists? (6th post)
26th July 2015
I have already written a blog post ... "Warwick BABCP conference: 3rd day - even more evidence that therapists themselves are central to improving outcome (5th post)" ... about the great last morning symposium "The singer and not the song? Evidencing therapist effects across the IAPT stepped care model". I …
Warwick BABCP conference: 3rd day - even more evidence that therapists themselves are central to improving outcome (5th post)
25th July 2015
Yesterday was the third & last morning of this year's BABCP summer conference in Warwick. I have already written about the second day in "Warwick BABCP conference: 2nd day - behavioural activation, Kyrios OCD, 'mind the gap', & DeRubeis on personalization (4th post)". Overall, there were two particular presentations I …
Warwick BABCP conference: 2nd day - behavioural activation, Kyrios OCD, 'mind the gap', & DeRubeis on personalization (4th post)
24th July 2015
Yesterday was the second full day of the BABCP summer conference in Warwick. I've already written three earlier posts about being here - on the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Anger dysregulation", the first morning "Trauma memories & a master presentation on four decades of outcome research" and the first …