Posts tagged with 'personality'
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (2nd post)
15th July 2015
I recently wrote the blog post "New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)" where I introduced two new research articles - Hudson and Fraley's "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change personality traits?" and Elliott et al's "Psychometrics …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)
14th July 2015
Hudson and Fraley's great new article "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change their personality traits?" still just has "online first" status at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology so it hasn't even got to "hot off the press" yet. It describes such interesting findings. The abstract …
A project to change long-term interpersonal patterns: building & maintaining commitment
8th April 2015
"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was but vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." T. E. Lawrence Our lives …
A project to change long-term interpersonal patterns: post-group reflections
4th March 2015
In a recent post - "A project to change long-term interpersonal patterns: at a residential group" - I described a fairly classic example of the sort of tangle I can sometimes get into interpersonally (probably especially in group therapy environments), where others may see me as judgemental, a bit condescending, …
A project to change long-term interpersonal patterns: at a residential group
28th February 2015
"A friend is someone who sees the potential in you and helps you to live it." W. B. Yeats (adapted) "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." Dr. Alexis Carrel I wrote a post a couple of days ago - "A project …
A project to change long-term interpersonal patterns: background
25th February 2015
I have just got back from a rather wonderful two week holiday in Kerala with my wife, Catero. It was very special ... and one of the interesting spin-offs was the perspective one can get looking back at one's everyday life typically played out over 5,000 miles away. I'm immensely …
A project to change longterm interpersonal patterns: finding a therapist
20th February 2015
Needs-Beliefs-Behaviours See too Nissen-Lie et al's "Patient and therapist perspectives on alliance development: Therapists' practice experiences as predictors" with its finding about the toxic effects on client rated therapeutic alliance produced by the "leaking" of unspoken critical therapist. "Humble warmth" "Therapist predictors of early patient-rated working alliance: A multilevel approach" …
Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": rescripting traumatic memories
14th December 2012
I have already written a series of blog posts - both on Arntz & Jacob's new book and on working with traumatic memories. In today's post I want to explore imagery rescripting more fully. The memorably named Mervin Smucker is an important figure in cognitive therapy's development of rescripting with …
Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": links with trauma-focused CBT and Marylene Cloitre's work on complex PTSD
17th November 2012
I've written a couple of recent blog posts - "Arntz & Jacob's new book 'Schema therapy in practice': some introductory comments" and "Arntz & Jacob's new book 'Schema therapy in practice': links with attachment theory and with therapies for self-compassion". In today's post I want to look at ST's focus …
Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": links with attachment theory and with therapies for self-compassion
16th November 2012
Yesterday I wrote a post "Arntz & Jacob's new book 'Schema therapy in practice: some introductory comments" about the recently published and potentially broadly applicable extension of this Dutch team's previously successful treatment approach for borderline personality disorder. So the authors comment "While schema therapy was originally developed for clients …