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The Power of Eye-Contact and Attunement
Refugees in Europe Met with Human Kindness
Four Preludes by Carl Sandberg
I had the opportunity today to hear Michael Tilson Thomas lead the LA Philharmonic in his own Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (2003; 2016), a powerful 30 minute piece. It is a setting of Carl Sandburg’s 1922 poem of the same name. I haven’t found a link to Thomas’s piece online, but here […]
Growing Gratitude
Positive health and social benefits after attitudes of Gratitude are taught.
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan’s immortal words in 1994, contemplating the human place in the Cosmos, a pale blue dot.
A Therapist-In-Training Becomes Profound
A young and valued colleague, Maury Joseph PsyD, who has recently assumed directorship of the ISTDP program at Washington School of Psychiatry, has published a lovely piece about maturing into an accomplished therapist by attending to his internal struggle with his own self-expectations and his clients’ unique relationship needs. I am reprinting portions of it […]
Humanity’s Evolutionary Sequence (and Challenge)
An esteemed colleague, Jon Frederickson, and I were talking about arcane issues of technique (spotting and responding to projection of task and will) and he recommend Leston Havens’ 1986 book, MAKING CONTACT: USES OF LANGUAGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY. After I ordered it, I read the Preface online (Amazon.com). One long paragraph required a couple of readings to […]
Value of Mediterranean Diet for Depression, ADHD
Three very recent studies have added to the evidence that a modified Mediterranean Diet is not only good for the heart but for brain function as well. In an Australian study by Felice Jacka and colleagues, 34 patients with severe depression following a modified Mediterranean diet were compared to 33 controls. The advantages of the […]
Neurofeedback Gets Political?
I just came across an article (blog) that is so topical, so reasonable, and so well-presented that I have decided to reproduce it. Saul Rosenthal is a Boston-area Health Psychologist. He writes about a sidelight to the controversies around President Donald Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Betsy Voss. It appears that media coverage of one […]
“Why Things Fall Apart” and Drugs for Sanity When Things Fall Apart
As I prepare to leave for my fourth trip to India (teaching intensive psychotherapy in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad next week) a couple of fascinating items diverted my attention. The first is a small essay by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, which I came across in an article in the December 31, 2016 issue of the Wall Street […]