I don't know Dave. Yeah, I'm no scholar in psychology, even if it was one of
my college minors, but I do have 45 years of being a boots-on-the-ground
classroom grunt, and as a consequence I just no longer go blindly for Skinner's
rat-like attitude towards people with a "do this and you'll get t
An alternative to the kind of psychotherapy practised by some of those
quoted in the article in the WSJ is enunciated in one of the online
comments, from Dr Michael DeMarco:
"There are lots of therapists who will gladly let you come to their
office one (or 3- I'm looking at you, psychoanalysts)
On Tue, 15 May 2012 15:24:53 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
>Well, this doesn't sound much like therapy at all, but just the kind of
>unhelpful advice one gets from a bad boss. That said, it also sounds a fair bit
>like Albert Ellis, which isn't new at all. (Indeed, Ellis said he was just
>reworki
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>From: Christopher Green
>Subject: Re: [tips] What Would Carl Rogers Do?
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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>Well, this doesn't sound much like therapy at all, but just the kind of
unhelpful advice one gets from a bad boss. That said, it als
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Subject: Re: [tips] What Would Carl Rogers Do?
Well, this doesn't sound much like therapy at all, but just the kind of
unhelpful advice one gets from a bad boss. That said, it also sounds a fair bit
like Albert Ellis, which isn't new at all. (Indeed, Ellis said he was just
reworking Stoici
Well, this doesn't sound much like therapy at all, but just the kind of
unhelpful advice one gets from a bad boss. That said, it also sounds a fair bit
like Albert Ellis, which isn't new at all. (Indeed, Ellis said he was just
reworking Stoicism for the 20th century.)
Chris
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Christopher
Michael:
You ask what would Carl Rogers do, a bit as if that's the ideal of therapy. As
I'm sure you're aware there are many models of therapy, and Rogers introduced
some essential components to any good therapist's arsenal. But most forms of
therapy eschew "unconditional positive regard" for a
