"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion."  Dalai Lama 

I really value how quotes about caring, like this favourite of mine from the Dalai Lama, are increasingly backed up by emerging research.  Here are seven further papers in the general area of the...

I wrote yesterday about the email that was sent out last autumn asking several fellow psychotherapists up here in Edinburgh whether they would be interested in forming a Therapists' Support Group.

What was some of the thinking behind this initiative?  Back in 2008 I lectured at the British...

Seven of us got together yesterday afternoon to talk about possibly setting up some kind of therapists' support group.  We're all therapists ourselves, and some of us are close to or on the mature side of 60.  All male therapists, so we're kind of "the Grizzlies".  Why do it?  It's mostly been me who has got this inital meeting to happen ... with some help from a friend. ...