I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 20,000 abstracts.
At the weekend I went back to my old university and spent warm, precious time with half a dozen old friends. I have already written a couple of blog posts about this experience ...
"The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices." Irvin Yalom
(Note an updated & extended version of this blog post is now available)
I have been asked to write a column on "Keeping up with the literature" for CBT Today "the official magazine of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies". I thought it might be helpful to put an online version onto this website so that I can include relevant hyperlinks to the various research articles that I mention.
(the full 48 slide Powerpoint lecture can be downloaded by clicking here)
(the full 48 slide Powerpoint lecture can be downloaded by clicking here)
I gave a lecture in Melbourne today entitled "How can we help our clients more effectively?" An initial slide highlighted the main points I covered:
I wrote a blog post yesterday entitled "Therapeutic alliance ruptures: common, very challenging & a key area for increasing therapist (and personal) helpfulness". I think this area is so important that I'd like to spend additional time exploring it more thoroughly.
We had another of our small peer Emotion-Focused Therapy supervision/practice groups yesterday evening. Half a dozen of us were able to make it. We'd agreed we would look particularly at "therapeutic alliance ruptures" at this meeting. As a doctor, I can't help finding the term "alliance rupture" rather giggle-inducing. I have all kinds of pictures of unwanted extrusions, metaphorical trusses and possibly extreme interpersonal surgical cures.
