Category Archives: Emotion

On Learning the Conditions for Learning

A great “Aha!” in the history of psychotherapy came with the recognition  that the “lifting” or resolution of emotional disturbance did not mean a necessary turn toward emotional well-being. The effect of the original disturbance had blocked learning. If well-being was to be achieved, productive and healthy experiential learning was essential. Since that time, the […]

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Retiring Retirement

The current economic climate serves as a catalyst for a shift in the normative developmental tasks of middle age. The popular twentieth century pattern of career leading to retirement has ended. Partly obscured within the spiraling numbers of unemployed workers of all ages, is the high incidence of professional knowledge workers, freed through the economic […]

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