Treating others with kindness and respect when they are being overtly hostile may sound like a big mistake. In fact, doing anything else might be the great error. In this post my colleague Matt May MD tells a story that might one day be the story of any one of us – should we shareContinue Reading: The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Dealing With Difficult People
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
International TEAM CBT Symposium [in-person & online] August 18 – 21, Warsaw, Poland
Please join me and 14 of my closest colleagues August 18 – 21 for the first-ever international symposium on TEAM CBT. If you’re unable to be on the ground with us in Warsaw, Poland, join us via our live stream – which will also be recorded for viewing at any time by all registrants. BothContinue Reading: International TEAM CBT Symposium [in-person & online] August 18 – 21, Warsaw, Poland
Holistic Diagnosis
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
Book Launch: Forethought (poems)
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)