Reminiscence therapy nytimes.com/2022/05/06/wel… Reminiscence therapy addresses an RECBT principle: we all need to create a meaningful life theme. Those striving for a goal and seeing existence as instrumental to its fulfillment will die well. Details in my coming book on dying.

A New Group therapy -RE/CBT adding the factors of Cognitive Processing Therapy, Trauma Focused Narrative therapy & ICT. Begins in Jersey City, in late January is open to adults 22-45 feeling their trajectory is derailed because of early life adversity - call 800 681 3114

Im offering a trauma focused RE/CBT group therapy that will include the most effective specific factors of CPT Trauma Narrative therapy and my own ICT. It will be in Jersey City. For those being derailed by early life adversity or recent traumatic events. 800 681 3114

My latest research on death on dying uncovered an interesting barrier to fear of death. The extreme masochism that leads to sexualizing death also precludes death anxiety. We are exploring if this can be applied without the sexual component,

Memory research reveals that memories are the product of the mind’s predictions mapped against our models of the world. This process makes memory malleable. It is for this reason all legitimate trauma treatments help people adjust their memories to reduce shame, guilt, and rebuke

Trauma generates painful memories that are persistent & precise while damning the positive ones to be insipid and uncertain. The essential step in trauma recovery: Acquire a confident distrust of autobiography along with the ability to Rewrite Your Own Narrative. More on this.

In every instant we are constructing a world of hopes, fears, threats or opportunities. We are always choosing which will be the components of our reality Taking a decisive role in this creative process can lead to ruling one’s world. The legitimate goal of psychotherapy.

Would you make a weekly visit to an MD to receive unexplained treatments for a diagnosis based solely on your feelings? If they continued weekly giving you no objective measures of your health or to see if the treatment is helping, do you continue? Ask that about psychotherapy

When surprised by your statements, act contrary to your wishes, suffer fear with no apparent cause Its NOT Due to unconscious conflicts! Your brain evolved redundant modules that often compete in attempts to predict and solve problems. Clinical Evolutionary Psych has the answers

This woman briefly detained at a miltary checkpoint in Sudan Egypt then casually travelled through the middle east, Europe, Mexico, a US inner city dressing appropriately for each locale she was accepted as a local virtually everywhere she went. Humans construct diiferences.

#Suicide People with a compelling desire to die are not helped by forced psychiatric hospitalization Suicide increases within 6 months of discharge. Incarceration & sedation are seen to be the best psychiatry has to offer, leading to increased desperation. Direction & purpose..

If we have an immortal essence, it only takes a tamping iron to change it from kind & restrained to vulgar & psychopathic just as Frontal damage or Picks dementia can change you to an unpleasant new person. If such brain changes create a new person, which survives after death?

This man independently discovered evolution by means of natural selection- no he is not Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace submitted his theory to… yes, Charles Darwin. They published it together in 1858. Darwin published the Origin of Species in 1859. Be careful of simple truths.

Psychotherapy has been shown to have a moderate effect size mostly due to the effectiveness of the individual therapist. But the only way to assess a therapist’s effectiveness is with objective measures during therapy. Unfortunately most therapists don’t bother making assessments

#SuicidePrevention The desperation of frustrated rage from prolonged pain & indignity often leads to convincing imagery of watching the consequences one’s death without grasping its finality. Helping someone understand this irrationality can deter violence against the self.

This is the real discovery of the double helix. The x-ray crystallograph from Dr Rosalind Franklin. It was borrowed without permission by Watson & Crick shortly before they “discovered” DNA. Question everything. I write texts: they can be quite subjective.

Incidentally I have never been invited to a Jewish cabal, I have never been offered help or had it requested of me based on Jewish ethnicity. After a vast period of being defined as a Jew I would have trouble defining what that affiliation actually represents.

Of all world faiths, only one advocates forgiveness, acceptance, tolerance, and even love of one's enemies—epitomized in the call to "love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use and persecute you." At this