Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (3rd post): narrative modes & phases
26th March 2012
In the last post in this sequence "Angus & Greenberg's book ... (2nd post): narrative types & modes", I began exploring Angus & Greenberg's recent book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". I talked about their model of "three narrative types" (external, internal & reflexive) and …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (2nd post): narrative types & modes
25th March 2012
I wrote yesterday on "Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (1st post): context". In today's post I would like to start scanning through the contents of Angus & Greenberg's 2011 book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". It's a short book, less than 150 …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (1st post): context
24th March 2012
I was due to go through to Glasgow today for the fifth workshop in this seven seminar emotion-focused therapy (EFT) series. Sadly my back has been playing up ... as it occasionally does ... and it really doesn't make good sense to travel. The soreness is getting better nicely, but …
Commitment contracts: a personal example
23rd March 2012
(This post is downloadable as a Word doc or a PDF file). I've already written a couple of posts about commitment contracts - "Commitment contracts: another good way of helping us reach our goals" and "Orientation, practicalities & use as therapeutic tools". I'd like to illustrate some points about setting …
Commitment contracts: orientation, practicalities & use as therapeutic tools
22nd March 2012
(This post is downloadable as a Word doc or a PDF file). I wrote yesterday about "Commitment contracts: another good way of helping us reach our goals". In today's post I'd like to look a bit more at the practicalities of setting up and using commitment contracts. I'll illustrate this …
Commitment contracts: another good way of helping us reach our goals
21st March 2012
(This post is downloadable as a Word doc or a PDF file). In a paper - "Commitment contracts as a way to health" - published a little earlier this year in the British Medical Journal, the authors (Halpern, Asch & Volpp from the University of Pennysylvania "Center for Health Incentives") …
Acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT): recent research & a better assessment measure, the AAQ-II
19th March 2012
I've been interested in the development of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) for a number of years. There does seem a good deal to be said for it as an approach, with the underpinning evidence base growing steadily. I have occasionally been a little put off by my sense that …
Recent research: articles from February journals
10th March 2012
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 over 17,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (10th post) - eighth week's practice
9th March 2012
I wrote recently about the seventh week's practice in this eight week mindfulness course. In today's post I'll look at the final session of the Williams & Penman course, described in chapter twelve (pp. 236 to 249) - "Your wild and precious life". This phrase is taken from Mary Oliver's …
Update on website traffic: my own favourite top 15 (1-5) - mindfulness, compassion, embodied cognition, attachment & willpower
8th March 2012
Yesterday I used Google Analytics to identify site locations that had been most accessed by website visitors and wrote "Update on website traffic: the ten most popular blog posts". This got me thinking - "What are my own personal favourites?" I quickly realised that the posts that I've written that …