CBT & Zen

Clinicians often consider anxiety to be a primary diagnosis. In my experience (both personally and professionally) anxiety is also a symptom of an underlying disorder: egoity. By which I mean an over attachment to the experience of a separate self. A self disconnected from other selves and from the world at large.My colleagues and IContinue Reading: Anxiety And Egoity

Do you have a difficult person in your life? In your family, perhaps, or amongst your neighbors or colleagues? Maybe you’re a therapist and have a difficult patient or two. My colleagues at Ramat Gan College in Tel Aviv invited me there next week to give a workshop on this topic. In this short videoContinue Reading: Dealing With Difficult People

Acceptance – of self, others and the world at large – seems often in short supply these days. Importantly, these three are always one: true acceptance flows in all directions.Rejection of of self, others and the wide world – while rewarding in a direction Dr. David Burns calls the joys of battle –  is alsoContinue Reading: Acceptance: Wellspring Of Emotional Healing

How is it that some patients recover in a single therapy session? After decades of daily panic attacks, leave their first session and never have a panic attack again? And how is that other patients work diligently week after week, month after month, perhaps year after year, to make this same change? In this postContinue Reading: The Rainmaker: A Transformation Parable

A general introduction to the ancient and ever-new science of cognitive-behavioral therapy. I recently presented this class at Georgetown University’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program. Join us for an expert guided tour of world CBT that starts beneath a Bodhi Tree in India 2500 years ago and winds up at Germany’s Max Plank Institute ForContinue Reading: CBT 101