The latest podcast from “All in the Mind” (the excellent ABC Radio National program about the mind, brain and behaviour) concerns borderline personality disorder (BPD) and is really worth a listen if you want to understand BPD in a sympathetic and informed way. The program explores the histories and motivations of people who attract this diagnosis, as well [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 4, 2007
BF Skinner on YouTube
Aside from the millions of adolescents talking to camera in their bedrooms, entertaining peers with their unoriginal observations on life (unlike keeping a blog, eh?) or lip-syncing to 80s pop songs, who would have thought that YouTube could have some educational benefit?
I recently discovered a couple of YouTube videos of BF Skinner, for those of [...]
April 4, 2007
Contextual Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies
I have a terrible confession to make about my background as a clinical psychologist: I trained as a behaviourist.
Why is this “terrible”? Well, because I now work in the UK, where it seems that behaviourally-oriented clinical psychologists are scarce (at least in my field), and I am a member of the British Association for Behavioural [...]
