Anxiety Part Two: Anxious Like Me
Anxiety Part Two: Anxious Like Me

To the best of my understanding, theories of emotion are attempts to answer the question, “WHAT IS THIS FEELING, WHY DO I HAVE IT, AND WHAT’S WITH THIS SALTY DISCHARGE COMING FROM MY EYES?” Thankfully, we’ve mostly outgrown humour theory, so relatively few people still say you’re depressed due to an excess of black bile. But then again, within the last month, I heard people attribute feeling states to another ancient theory of medicine...

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Art and Science III: SlateStarCodex on Gottman

Scott Alexander, my favorite writer on the interweb, has been reviewing therapy books and got around to a particular specialty of mine, couples therapy. He reviews John Gottman’s landmark book, Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work...

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Art and Science II: The Great Psychotherapy Debate
Art and Science II: The Great Psychotherapy Debate

For the better part of a year, I have been reading Bruce Wampold’s book, The Great Psychotherapy Debate. It’s a white paper examining the evidence for two competing models of interpreting the research on outcomes in psychotherapy. The competing models for interpreting the research are The Medical Model and The Contextual Model...

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Art and Science I: Please hold the Science
Art and Science I: Please hold the Science

When I bring up the research from clinical psychology on outcomes of psychotherapy, other therapists say to me, “Psychotherapy is an art and a science.” Yet I’ve had one colleague say to me, “Science can’t tell us anything since it’s always changing its mind.” Another told me, “Science cannot reveal anything about therapy because therapy is about human relationships...”

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Anxiety Part One: “What It’s Like”
Anxiety Part One: “What It’s Like”

Emotions are tricky - they’re like colors. Understanding facts about colors doesn’t seem to give us all the information...

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