יום שישי, 28 בינואר 2011

Assimilation and accomodation in lay language:

I'm still reading this CPT book, and I have to translate the words assimilation and accommodation to lay language when I read. I wish I had a Dr Phil expression for them, so I will try to make them up. So imagine a Texan accent when I say this:

Over-accommodation: "If you fall off your horse, it don't matter if you get back on it, but don't take it out on your pickup truck..."

Assimilation: "With better boots you'd still be in this bullshit."

Accommodation: "You wasn't planning on the wind when you put your hat on this morning, but what else could you do?"

As country music hall-of-famer, Garth Brooks says, "if you want them to listen, you better take it down to three chords and the truth".

יום חמישי, 27 בינואר 2011

Prozac?


I'm reading this book by Dr. Derbi and Prof. Resick about treating PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). As a side note, the writers say that taking anti-depressants during therapy is ok, but with a notice that it may prevent success from being attributed correctly to the efforts of the patient. 

In my view, isolating variables is a sceintific practice, and not the way to happiness. If you're depressed and you do 10 things to treat yourself: prozac, psychotherapy, chocolate, yoga, walks in the park etc., and then you're not depressed anymore, you did a good job.

It is inefficient to do 10 things without isolating the one that works, but if we go there, psychotherapy probably won't come out as efficiency queen either. 

In the search for well-being, I think a blitzkrieg model more fitting. Do 20 things that you think will make you feel better, 50% of them will work, and you have no reason to ask which. Well-being based on one practice is very fragile. 

I could write more but a picture of Dumbo seems more to the point, meaning that placebos and coincidental pseudo-factors of well-being are welcomed.


My New Blog

This is my new blog. I hope to write here stuff that will be interesting to me and to others. Still unclear about what. Not about my personal life. Not totally professional. An attempt to filter something that's not all bullshit and still very open to new thinking. I will try to write simply, I will try to write shortly, I will try to put illustrations and media in it.

The subjects that come to mind, for a blog like this, have to do with psychtherapy, life coaching, organizational approaches, and human experience in a the stage between personal experience and abstract form.