A most busy psychological man in San Diego

Nader Amir, Ph.D. does it all: panic disorder; missing clinical data; psychopathology; suppression of the emotional Stroop effect; increased anxiety; social phobia; methods of thought control; nosology; memory bias, confidence biases; inflated perception; obsessions, compulsions; inhibition of threat; false memory; spider-fearful individuals — and that’s just in the old days, in the 20th century. In […]

Goodby, naked therapist, farewell

The Los Angeles Times on January 8, 1998, bid farewell to psychotherapy’s most visible practitioner: E. Paul Bindrim; Father of Nude Psychotherapy E. Paul Bindrim, the controversial self-styled father of nude psychotherapy who won a landmark libel suit over a novel he claimed deprecated his techniques, has died. He was 77.  Bindrim died Dec. 17 […]

Esoterica: A Loyal Look at Allegiance

This week’s Esoteric Psychotherapy Paper of the Week is: “Allegiance effects in psychotherapy research: A constructivist approach,” Luis Botella and Diana Beriain, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Volume 12, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 55-64, The authors, at Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain, explain: “This paper examines the concept of allegiance effects in […]

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