Word: psychologistic
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Before he was an accomplished psychologist, Steven Hayes was a mental patient. His first panic attack came on suddenly, in 1978, as he sat in a psychology-department meeting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was an assistant professor. The meeting had turned into one of those icy personal and philosophical debates common on campuses, but when Hayes tried to make a point, he couldn't speak. As everyone turned to him, his mouth could only open and close wordlessly, as though it were a broken toy. His heart raced, and he thought he might...
...classes, and his hands would shake so badly that he could barely get the 8-mm film into the projector. As a student, he had earned his way from modest programs at colleges in California and West Virginia to an internship at Brown Medical School with esteemed psychologist David Barlow. Hayes had hoped to be a full professor by his early 30s, but what had been a promising career stalled...
...cognitive model permeates the culture so thoroughly that many of us don't think to name it; it's just what psychologists do. When Phillip McGraw ("Dr. Phil") gives advice, for instance, much of it flows from a cognitive perspective. "Are you actively creating a toxic environment for yourself?" he asks on his website. "Or are the messages that you send yourself characterized by a rational and productive optimism?" Cognitive approaches were first developed in the 1950s and early '60s by two researchers working independently, University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Aaron Beck, now 84, and Albert Ellis, 92, a New York...
...unlikely that the authors wanted to upset anyone. Murray, a clinical psychologist, is jovial and courteous in a professorial way; Fortinberry, a therapist, exudes warmth but also a fragility that betrays her long struggle with depression, won but not forgotten. Though they're blunt about the consequences of poor parenting, they don't criticize parents. "We live in a society in which damage is rampant," says Fortinberry, "in which it's impossible to bring up kids the way we're meant to bring up kids...
With such built-in conflicts, executive coaching is a "total, chaotic mess," says Kenneth Eisold, a psychologist. But Eisold says his commodity-trader clients can already see a difference. "When they talk to me, they listen to themselves," Eisold says, "and they trade much better...