Phenomenological Psychology

A Star Is Born Released September, 09 2018|Duration : 2 hours 15 minutes 0 DIRECTED BY : Bradley Cooper. PRODUCED BY : Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber. GENRE : Drama, Music, Romance. VIDEO : 720p. LANGUAGE : English. Watch NowDownload MORE INFO COUNTRY : United States of America. PRODUCTION BY : Thunder Road Pictures, 22 & […]

Avoidance and engagement are types of behavior. They may be directed towards a specific unit of activity, or a whole lifestyle. Avoidance perpetuates both anxiety and depression. The reason why is because you don’t get any feedback from reality, because you’re not letting reality give you any. A lot of what we do consists of […]

The Padre Released September, 09 2018|Duration : 1 hours 38 minutes 0 DIRECTED BY : Jonathan Sobol. PRODUCED BY : Nicholas Tabarrok. GENRE : Drama. VIDEO : 720p. LANGUAGE : English, Español. Watch NowDownload MORE INFO COUNTRY : Canada. PRODUCTION BY : Darius Films. PLOT SUMMARY Movie ‘The Padre’ was released in September 28, 2018 […]

Smallfoot Released September, 09 2018|Duration : 1 hours 49 minutes 8.5 DIRECTED BY : Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig. GENRE : Drama, Comedy, Animation. VIDEO : 720p. LANGUAGE : English. Watch NowDownload MORE INFO COUNTRY : United States of America. PRODUCTION BY : Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros. Pictures. PLOT SUMMARY ‘Smallfoot’ is […]

In transforming myself from entertainment industry executive to clinical psychology student, someone whose judgment I trust asked me, “can a leopard change its spots?” Which I interpreted to mean, how would I make the transition from one mode of being, to another? Here is the way I think about this. In his book Structure of Scientific Revolutions, […]

Originally I was interested in psychoanalysis as a form of socio-cultural critique, something like what Ricoeur did in his work “Freud and Philosophy.” I wrote a lengthy article (published here) but hadn’t really conceived of it as something that actually could be used to treat persons with psychiatric disorders. I recently took a course in psychoanalysis […]

Students, externs and interns often are asked to “conceptualize a case” using a specific therapeutic technique; suggest treatment goals; and describe concrete interventions.  What follows is a brief guide for cognitive behavioral therapy.  If you learn this, you’ll pass your final/comprehensive examination with no trouble.  If you don’t know what these words mean, then you […]

Identifying Information Jennifer was a 25-30 year old self-identified Caucasian female. She had been married to her husband Dan for three years. She recently had her first child, a daughter. Several years ago Jennifer and Dan moved to Los Angeles from their previous residence in Philadelphia. Part of the impetus for this was Jennifer’s desire […]

The purpose of this note is to comment briefly on my personal experience with motivational interviewing for substance abuse (over-use) versus more of a behavior-oriented approach.  Motivational interviewing is a counseling technique developed by William Miller and Stephen Rollnick.  Essentially the client and the counselor develop a list setting forth the pros and cons of […]

Zombies are philosophically interesting (Kirk, 2011) because they sharply highlight the mind-body problem initially posed by René Descartes (1641/1933) in that they have bodies but no minds to speak of. They also are cause for concern. In September 2012 the Homeland Security Department issued a zombie alert (reported at Caldwell, 2012). This followed warnings of […]