Understanding consciousness is not just a scientific endeavor but also a deeply human one. It touches upon our very essence, shedding light on what it means to experience, to feel, and to be. Through the study of consciousness, we come closer to unraveling the profound

Throughout my career, I have been deeply influenced by the need to bring the study of consciousness back into the scientific fold. In the mid-20th century, behaviorism dominated psychology, dismissing consciousness as an unobservable and thus unscientific phenomenon. However, I

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George Dourakoglou | ✍🏻 Hi George, a conversational style known as @discoverytalk based on Method of Levels therapy Control Theory SIG and perceptual control theory @IAPCT is highly consistent with your Marcus Aurelius quotes…

Exposure for anxiety within virtual reality allows the user to tailor-make the variables in the feared situation to optimise their own control & learning We report on the complexity of variables within a public speaking scenario. Well done Tingjun! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A wonderfully insightful piece that points out that by default, beliefs are motivated perceptions, not accurate representations. This is crucial to understand for therapy, sociology & theories of consciousness: psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-77… Anil Seth Mark Solms Tom Cochrane

“Bion advocated that an analyst should approach each session without desire, memory or understanding. The desire (for instance) to cure or to influence, the active remembering of the previous session, and the illusion of understanding in terms of what is theoretically familiar …

Being conscious of any stimulus in any sense modality interferes with consciousness of any other stimulus, and also with conscious access to any voluntary act or conceptual process. Wheen the same events are unconscious and involuntary they usually do not interfere at all.

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss

Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework Don’t be fooled by the title; PCT forms the architecture for this framework link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The computer demos of PCT from Powers (2008) are now available free to download & run. A great way to learn PCT… iapct.org/publications/b…

Training in psychotherapy begins in earnest when it finally sinks in that giving advice doesn't help And it sinks in that common-sense solutions haven’t helped and won’t help now Meaningful psychotherapy is not an extension of common sense. It is something else entirely.

The therapist’s stance toward a patient is also one of respect & curiosity, which you must demonstrate. You can’t bypass it by insisting you accept their feelings or whatever. You show it by responding as an invested human who talks like a person, not an inspirational poster.

In every successful therapy, there is a period when the patient feels more lost than ever. They are relinquishing old ways of being & have not yet consolidated new ways We are changing life patterns. There is no path from point A to point B that does not pass through the unknown

The protocol for our feasibility study exploring Method of Levels therapy delivered by care coordinators in Early Intervention in #Psychosis services is now available. Jasper Palmier-Claus Adam Jones Liz Camacho 🇲🇺🇬🇾🇬🇧 Sara Tai …tfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Jasper Palmier-Claus Adam Jones Liz Camacho 🇲🇺🇬🇾🇬🇧 Sara Tai We'll be sharing some of the key findings from the CAMEO study at this free online event tomorrow. gmmh.nhs.uk/research-news/…

Available once more! Reasonably priced, the core text of perceptual control theory: amazon.com/Behavior-Contr…

New paper finds that diagnostic mental health labels (e.g. 'depression') can - increase perception individuals require treatment - increase empathy & support - reduce perceived control people have over their problems & likelihood of recovery journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/a…

1/ As a therapist, your job is not to push an agenda on patients, create converts to a worldview, persuade, dissuade, approve, disapprove, affirm or disaffirm It’s to help them know themselves more fully and so become more whole and live life more freely—on their terms not yours

When a therapist provides advice, or their own interpretation to their client, it is like riding up to someone on a bike, taking their handlebars, and trying to ride the bike for them. Discuss. 🚲 🚲 💥