Read Montague explores the new field of Computational Neuroscience. Does that sound like it’s going to be easy? You’re right, it’s not, but Read Montague writes well, and with a light touch. There are definitely useful things to come out of this book for us therapists, and my small brain needs to read it again […]
Archives for October 2007
Gut Feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious
I have a feeling that this will turn out to be one of the most important books I’ve read, Gerd Gigarenzer provided much of the research material the Malcolm Gladwell used when writing his brilliant book, Blink. GG lays out rules of thumb the brain uses as short cuts to make decisions and create beliefs. […]
Quirkology
Richard Wiseman is one of my favourite authors. He writes in a really engaging way and always brings interesting things to the table. In Quirkology he excels himself in the range of weird and wonderful experiments he’s conducted or reports on that shed a fascinating light on the vagaries of being human. Entertaining and educational, […]
The assumptions that drive our therapy Podcast
We all work from a set of assumptions – mainly without being aware of what they are. Here I talk about a recent insight that reminded me of the importance of raising them to our awareness. The assumptions that drive our therapy
Reconsolidation Theory Podcast
This has been one of my most popular blogs/articles, so I’ve produced it as a podcast. In my opinion Reconsolidation theory is one of the most important things to happen for therapy in a very long time. Reconsolidation theory and the point of therapy
The assumptions that drive our therapy
We all work from a set of assumptions – mainly without being aware of what they are. Here I talk about a recent insight that reminded me of the importance of raising them to our awareness.
We get what we try to avoid
Have you ever had the experience of seemingly getting in life exactly what you didn’t want? Or where you know you want something – like promotion, or to pass an exam, but your behaviour somehow sabotages it? This is something I call the Therapeutic Paradox, and this podcast explains how it works. We get what […]
Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions
For many years I’ve worked on the principle that something doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be plausible – something I think I got from some research from Xerox into how we go about making buying decisions. I’ve found this to be very useful in therapy; the world we live in, and […]