Category: philosophical counseling
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On cognitive-bias modification
In “Therapist-Free Therapy,” the anonymous author describes a new form of self-induced therapy called cognitive-bias modification. The main premise is that some people have a built-in bias toward, say, being anxious. Through 15 min. self-administered CBM sessions, participants learn how to re-value things in more neutral terms. Fascinating approach, albeit quite limited in scope.
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Toward an alternative business model for philosophical counseling
The following is the proposal of a paper I will be presenting at the APPA Annual Meeting at Columbia in June. I welcome your queries, comments, and suggestions. The paper is consistent with the conception of philosophical counseling I outline under the Philosophical Counseling tab. — Update: You can read a summary of my talk…
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‘Where have all the good men gone?’ On making sense of modern life
Yesterday I bumped into my friend Peter Foges at Cafe Regular du Nord and we got to talking about the time in which we’re living. Peter was saying that we’re living through the end of one thing, but we’re not sure what the next thing will be.* The end, occurring somewhere in 2010 or 2011…
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Is modern friendship an antidote to crankiness?
In a recent email, my friend Dougald Hine wrote, “[T]he internet has the power to save us [i.e., us life of the minders living outside the academy] from turning into cranks! What I mean by this is that, until very recently, it was hard to pursue an unconventional career* [see footnote below] as a thinker…
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What George Eliot teaches us about growing up
In the Feb. 14 & 21 issue of The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead writes, The book [George Eliot’s Middlemarch] that Virginia Woolf characterized as ‘one of the few English novels for grown-up people’ is also a book about how to be a grownup person–about how to bear one’s share of sorrow, failure, and loss, as well…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 