I love it when I follow up ideas from a new research paper and then break through into a whole area of helpful knowledge that I haven't come across before.  This happened recently with the paper by Srivastava and colleagues (Srivastava, Tamir et al. 2009 - see below) on the social costs of emotional suppression.  This then linked me through to James Gross's work at Stanford,...

"There's nothing so practical as a good theory".    Kurt Lewin

I wrote yesterday about the "triangle of emotions".  I am a medical doctor and accredited cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.  I was drawn to CBT (cognitive...

Like many cognitively-orientated therapists who have observed the power of charged emotional work, I've struggled to integrate these approaches in ways that are evidence-based and intellectually rigorous.  As they used to say in the early groups I was involved with in the 1970's - "Lose your head...