Click Here to Read: In Ontario, a battle for the soul of psychiatry: The province is moving to a U.S.-style model for psychiatrists that will eventually get them out of the business of ongoing care. What will that mean for patients? by Norman Doidge in the Globe and Mail on April 6, 2019. 
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Stockbridge psychologist honored for paper, career in psychoanalysis
Is There a Science to Psychotherapy? Neuroscience findings suggest that psychotherapy alters the brain
Click Here to Read: Is There a Science to Psychotherapy? Neuroscience findings suggest that psychotherapy alters the brain by Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD on their Denying to the Grave blog on the Psychology Today blogs on November 7, 2018.
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Psychoanalysis: Between Improving and Changing : 5. The Deterioration of Psychoanalysis and its Crisis
Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness?
Click Here to Read: Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? Giulio Tononi’s “integrated information theory” might solve neuroscience’s biggest puzzle by By David Robson on the BBC website on March 27, 2019.
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Organizing Your Space for Applied Behavior Analysis
Organizing Your Space for Applied Behavior Analysis By Samuel Bowman
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) uses the principles of learning and positive reinforcement to improve the skills and behaviors of children on the autism spectrum. As a therapist, you must be prepared to meet each child exactly where they are on the path to learning new behaviors each time you see them. Whether your space rotates from room to room in a building, is the same all the time, or you visit the child in their home, being organized is pivotal to your success and the child’s ability to engage.
Before we dive into a few tips for getting your room (or rolling briefcase) in order, here are a few basics you need to know about ABA and autism. Continue reading Organizing Your Space for Applied Behavior Analysis
The Shadow of Freud: Is Daniel Stern still a psychoanalyst?
Click Here to Read: Review Article: The Shadow of Freud: Is Daniel Stern still a psychoanalyst? The creative tension between the present and the past in psychoanalytic and existential psychotherapies, in Daniel Stern’s The Present Moment, and his humanistic— existential partners in dialogue In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, VOL. 8, NO. 3, NOVEMBER 2003, pp. 235–254.