Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
Recent research: three studies on CBT, one on implementation intentions and two on compassion
17th March 2011
Here are details of half a dozen recent research papers - three on CBT, one on implementation intentions (and CBT), and two on compassion. Fuller details, links and abstracts of all the studies mentioned are given further down this post. The first, by Gulliksson et al, is "Randomized Controlled Trial …
Psychotherapy & positive psychology: the assessment 'dashboard'
11th March 2011
Last week I wrote on "Psychotherapy & positive psychology: why psychotherapists should pay attention". This week I look at positive psychological assessment. The very widely used DSM system classifies mental disorders on five axes - clinical disorders, personality disorders/retardation, medical conditions, psychosocial/environmental problems, and global functioning. The US DSM and …
Psychotherapy & positive psychology: why psychotherapists should pay attention
4th March 2011
Early next month I'm scheduled to run a workshop on "Psychotherapy & positive psychology". Most of the participants will be 3rd year counselling psychology students, with a few practising psychotherapists in the mix as well. I haven't run a workshop on this subject before. It's a fascinating area that I …
Setting up a therapists' support group 2
25th January 2011
I wrote yesterday about the email that was sent out last autumn asking several fellow psychotherapists up here in Edinburgh whether they would be interested in forming a Therapists' Support Group. What was some of the thinking behind this initiative? Back in 2008 I lectured at the British Association for …
Setting up a therapists' support group 1
24th January 2011
Seven of us got together yesterday afternoon to talk about possibly setting up some kind of therapists' support group. We're all therapists ourselves, and some of us are close to or on the mature side of 60. All male therapists, so we're kind of "the Grizzlies". Why do it? It's …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: memory and the autobiographical self 1
10th January 2011
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." Mark Twain I wrote last month about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in his recent book - "Emotions and …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 2
3rd January 2011
I wrote an initial blog post last month on "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview". I commented that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 1
20th December 2010
I wrote last week about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and autobiographical self". I mentioned that …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: overview
13th December 2010
I first came across Professor Antonio Damasio's work in 2001 at the "7th European Conference on Traumatic Stress" in Edinburgh. One of the main plenary speakers talked about Damasio's ideas as expressed in his earlier books "Descartes' error: emotion, reason and the human brain" and "The feeling of what happens: …
Meeting at relational depth: a model
28th October 2010
I went to a workshop on Saturday about "Relational depth". As is usually the case, chewing over the material afterwards, thinking about how it's relevant for myself & my work, following up some leads - these seem crucial activities to promote "digestion" rather than a quick learning meal that goes …