psychology Archive
This is a live event – you are invited – on July 14, 2016 – Bastille Day – from 6:00 to 7;30 PM at the Gleacher Center of the Graham School (UChicago) at 450 Cityfront Plaza Drive (Chicago, IL 60611) …
Maxim 1. A person takes it that things are as they seem unless they have reason enough to think otherwise. Peter Ossorio You can trust a dog with your life...but not your lunch. Stephen HuneckA through-line description is, paradigmatically, the …
By: Adam Fried, Ph.D. Mental health practice, assessment and research can be highly fulfilling, but also emotionally demanding. In recent years, the field of psychology has made a concerted effort to educate psychologists about the effects of various types of …
Image viaAs consumers of the media, it is not uncommon to “diagnose” public figures with various mental disorders, depending on their representation in the press. But for psychologists and psychiatrists, is doing so unethical? In an op-ed in The New …
Implementation and Significance: Simple Psychotherapeutic InterventionsPromise them anything, but give them behavior potential. Peter OssorioNear the start of my training analysis I realized that my mostly silent analyst, seated behind me, wrote with a scratchy pencil. Evidently, not everything I …
1st Annual Peter Ossorio Lecture - Dr. Wynn SchwartzOctober 19, 2015University of Colorado-BoulderEmpathy, Intentional Action, and The Person Concept: An Exercise in Descriptive Psychology“The instigation of the Person Concept was a very practical one. It was the classic problem of …
Frank T McAndrew, Knox College The Haunted House is a time-honored horror setting. All of us have shivered our way through spooky flicks such as The Haunting, The Amityville Horror, The Sentinel and Poltergeist. It’s not only at the movies …
Developing appropriate professional boundaries with clients/patients can be one of the most challenging therapeutic tasks to negotiate, irrespective of one’s level of training or experience. But what about practitioners who are embedded in communities in ways that transcend geographic …
As human beings, we are, of course, emotional creatures just as much as we are rational, if not more so. This means that any attempt to understand human actions without taking account of the emotional dimension is likely to be, …
The Foundations of Behavioral Science "I am myself and my circumstance." Ortega y Gasset"...These concepts: proposition, language, thought, world, stand in line one behind the other, each equivalent to each. (But what are these words to be used for now? …
