Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": links with attachment theory and with therapies for self-compassion
Last updated on 20th June 2013
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database -
This is the sixth and final blog post about going back to my old university for a reunion dinner. I wrote three posts last month and a further couple earlier this month. In the first post of the series, I said: "I've never been back for any kind of reunion before ... not to school, not to university, not to medical college. Why not ... and why am I going back now? I'm a medical doctor, but primarily I work as a psychotherapist ... as a specialist in stress, health & wellbeing.
Earlier this year I wrote a sequence of ten blog posts to support people working their way through Mark Williams & Danny Penman's fine book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. I've referred lots of people to these posts and it's a bit messy finding them as they are strung out over many weeks. Here are links to the ten posts organized into one place:
I've been asked to give a talk on "Mindfulness and the healing relationship" at a seminar later this autumn. The brief is to approach the subject via the emerging research evidence. The seminar organizer may well reduce the number of words involved, but the information I sent him read:
In June I wrote a series of five posts reporting on a pre-conference workshop (about treating chronic fatigue) and the first day of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) main annual conference, held this year in Leeds. Then last month I wrote a further couple of posts. Now here is the eighth and final report in the sequence:
The last day of the BABCP main annual conference in Leeds was the usual mix of presentations & conversations. I had breakfast with a couple of delightful researchers earnestly discussing the technicalities of a proposed new questionnaire about genital dissatisfaction. Mm ... not a very appetising topic over the tea & toast.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" Thomas Edison
In yesterday's post - "Power objects, power postures, power clothes, power prayers: all ways to facilitate change (1st post)" - I introduced recent research highlighting how we can use physical objects and the way we position our bodies to significantly improve our chances of following through on new ways of thinking, feeling & behaving. In today's post I extend this discussion of ways to help ourselves change to what we wear and what we say to ourselves.
"I will love you like a wind,
like a man stitching a skin
together like a winter coat.
Like a man sitting in meditation
and repairing a cracking spirit.
Like a man in love with a leaf,
a cloud, a flame, a temple.
Like a man on fire
running in the wilderness
shouting for sheer joy."
From the poem "A blessing (the way)" in the book "A shaman's songbook" by Norman Moser
I wrote an initial blog post in May entitled "Personal directions in mindfulness teaching: an overview" where I said that I was "excited, stimulated, happy, frustrated, challenged, and hopeful" about the current surge of interest in mindfulness and introduced the following diagram:
(This diagram is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Powerpoint slide).