Religious observance, spiritual practice and cognitive-behavioral therapy are fellow travelers. While each covers its own ground and has its particular vocabulary, all share a common destination: life lived in accord with the way things really are. In a recent meeting of our weekly online consultation group, All Things CBT, senior faculty took up the questionContinue Reading: Religion, Spirituality & CBT

Psychiatric symptoms – panic attacks say, or suicidal thoughts – arise from the deep ecology of an individual human life. Appreciating the role a symptom plays in this big picture enables us to understand and empathize with patients in a vital way. Such understanding and empathy in turn set the stage for successful intervention inContinue Reading: Holistic Diagnosis

All Things CBT is now accepting entries to its annual shame attacking contest. Shame attacking – doing something silly in a public setting – is a CBT technique that can free us from being overly concerned about others’ appraisal of us. It’s a free, fun, powerful way to show the world we’re comfortable enough inContinue Reading: 2022 World Championships Of Shame Attacking

Human relationship has a dizzying number of moving parts. Each person has distinct perceptions, feelings and roles in the relationship – all of them based on one’s interpersonal belief system. In this presentation two colleagues – Matthew May MD and Bridget Hannahan Ph.D. – present a CBT method called the Interpersonal Downward Arrow. The IPDAContinue Reading: Untangling Relational Complexity

Please join my colleague Heather Clague MD and me in this conversation about my new book Forethought, a poetry collection that will be released March 15, 2022. We share our experience of thinking [the realm of cognitive therapy], of the ground from which thinking arises [that which is before thought], and the interface between theseContinue Reading: Book Launch: Forethought (poems)