Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing, for example, that self-esteem is an essential precursor to being a productive human being, that…
Dawes points out the fallacy in many commonly held beliefs in therapy and takes issue with many current treatment methods.
The military is experiencing high rates of mental illness, yet service members and veterans with mental health problems often choose not to seek treatment. Based on clinical-psychology models of client-therapist matching and cultural competency, we hypothesized that willingness …
According to Air America radio host Hartmann, the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and subconscious aspects of political communication. Conservatives didn't intuit the path to persuasive messaging and, as Hartmann shows, there is no reason why progressiv…
"Millions Of Working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the megawealthy, the multinational corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? Bestselling author Thorn Hartmann says it's because the apologists of …
Millions of working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the mega-wealthy, multinational corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? This work argues that the apologists of the Right have become masters of t…
The development of the practice of psychotherapy in Egypt is a good example of the migration of cultural constructs from the 'modern West' to the 'traditional East', and also a good case study of the modification of constructs in their passage from one cultural context to anothe…
"Psychotherapist Michael Pond is no stranger to the devastating consequences of alcoholism. He has helped hundreds of people conquer their addictions, but this knowledge did not prevent his own near-demise. In this riveting memoir, he recounts how he lost his practice, his home,…