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Library of Professional Psychology

The Library of Professional Psychology (LPP) is an internet based growing collection of documents focusing on the challenging practice of professional psychology. Articles posted in this library range over many topics – from brief psycho-biographical essays that allow us to view moments in the lives of men and women from many different cultures, to extended analyses regarding…

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PSP Bulletin Board

The PSP Bulletin Board contains information about the many activities being offered by members of the PSP Global Psychological Community. These activitier include two kinds of “salon” that provide settings for rich, constructive dialogue. Following is a link to a prestation on the “spirit” of the salon (offered by John Kruski a members of the PSP Global Communitt) along with a summary of and link…

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Center for Personal and Organizational Assessment (CPOA)

General Description The Center for Personal and Organizational Assessment (CPOA) has prepared suites of inventories and related documents over the past thirty years that have been used extensively in training programs, as well as consulting and coaching sessions. They have also appeared in several widely read books that offer concepts and research findings related to these CPOA documents. CPOA…

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The Psychology Book Store

Welcome to the Psychology Book Store. We feature books especially directed to the professional psychologist who is providing clinical services, consultation to organizations, or either personal or professional coaching services. Here on the table at the front of our book store is our currently featured book. Featured Book Love Lingers Here: Stories of Enduring Intimate Relationships   Author:…

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Issue Four: The Psychology of Political Behavior

Issue Four: The Psychology of Political Behavior

In the field of professional psychology—and more generally in the discipline of psychology—there are several “third rails.” These are areas of psychology that should never be touched. It they are being touched then it should only be by academicians who are far from the fray of applied, professional psychology. One of these “rails” is money. Very little has been written about the psychology of…

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Psychology, Neo-Sociopsychology, and Paths to a Better, Less Prejudiced Society

Psychology, Neo-Sociopsychology, and Paths to a Better, Less Prejudiced Society

When it comes to psychology in general, I am a fan. I have a degree in it. At its best, psychology is an honest attempt to help people identify, ameliorate and possibly eliminate the causes of self-defeating and counterproductive thinking and behavior. It works for individuals and groups and organizations with an eye towards providing tools and techniques to mitigate negative outcomes. There are…

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#elliot aronson #f scale #robber cave experiments #Muzafer Sherif #Yankelovich Research

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A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION

A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness…. -Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1853) · Various commentators have targeted a wide array of causal explanations as shaping the dominant problems within American culture. Business leaders, for example, have long faulted governmental economic meddling, or unionization, or decline of a free…

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#Melanie Klein #lasch #erich fromm #Adorno #joel kovel #fenichel #wilhelm reich #horkheimer #herbert marcuse

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Personality Disorders, Attachment, and National Trauma: A Psychosociological Approach to Psychodynamic Therapy

Personality Disorders, Attachment, and National Trauma: A Psychosociological Approach to Psychodynamic Therapy

Take her, please, I say. Do you have any openings? But she is not mine to give away, and if she leaves me, if she says that perhaps she would be better with another therapist—for narcissistic patients are notoriously particular and there is always something wrong with the one who came before, to which you are the antidote, until you, too, are replaced—then it means I have failed. But to keep her…

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#Fromm #Adorno #Satir #arendt #kohut #alfred adler #bowlby #richard lichtman

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THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY I: PRELIMINARY PERSPECTIVES AND STUDIES

THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY I: PRELIMINARY PERSPECTIVES AND STUDIES

William Bergquist and Kevin Weitz Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he find himself produces in him the most injust…

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#erich fromm #Adorno #Beernard Bass #Roger Brown #Erich Hoffer #Marie JahodaMilton Rokeach #Jean Paul Sartre #anomie #xenophobia

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Organizational Consultation XXXII: The Appreciative Leader: From a 21st Century Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXXII: The Appreciative Leader: From a 21st Century Perspective

[Note: Most of this essay was actually wirtten during the last decade of the 20th Century. The themes introduced, however, seem to be quite relevant to the 21st Century world in which leaders are now operating.] Teilhard, Eisler and Greenleaf offer us many insights and inspire us to find new leaders and settings in which collaborative leadership can flourish. Unfortunately, their model of leader…

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Awakening Spring in Autumn

Awakening Spring in Autumn

Here is your downloadable version of Awakening Spring in Autumn. Just click on the download button below.  The digital version of this book will soon be on its way to you.

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Organizational Consultation XXXI: The Appreciative Leader: From A Traditional Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXXI: The Appreciative Leader: From A Traditional Perspective

How does one address this interplay between order and chaos? How does one move beyond the contextual model of leadership to a more fully appreciative model? I propose that contemporary leaders must not only embrace multiple roles and functions in their organization. They must embrace a multitude of roles that come from different eras in our society and that represent a complex interweaving of…

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#riane eisler #Teilhard de Chardin #servant leadership

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Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

We have now completed our journey around the Appreciative Triangle. We have ventured into the domains of information, intentions and ideas, and have delved into three appreciative strategies that relate to each of these domains: assessment (information), chartering (intentions) and empowerment (ideas). We have explored three strategies along the way that bridge these three domains: benchmarking…

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#don schon #riane eisler #chris argyris #Teilhard de Chardin #blake and mouton #Fred Fiedler

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The New Johari Window #35: The New Johari Window: A Final View

The New Johari Window #35: The New Johari Window: A Final View

We are about to bring to a close our transformation of and full appreciation for the interpersonal relationship model first offered by Joe Luft and Harrington Ingram at a seminar in Ojai California. As we end this journey, I wish to restate Joe Luft’s initial set of assumptions. Following are these primary principles of change offered by Luft with regard to the Original Johari Model. I offer…

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#Tavistock #NTL #disclosure

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Building the Bridge: Inter-Generational Generativity

Joan Wright and William Bergquist “Blessed is he who plants tress under whose shade he will never sit.” — Indian Proverb [Note: there are two versions of this essay. The version contained herein provides a video recording of an interview conducted by one of the authors [WB] with the other author {JW}. An audio recording of an interview regarding a concept called “Eldership: with JW is also…

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In Praise of Empathy

In Praise of Empathy

By Brent Green, Ph.D., MPH, RODP Former National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Introduction With President Biden’s first speech to the nation focused on Covid-19 prevention we witnessed a strong empathetic message for everyone, practice safe guidelines to reduce virus transmission and staggering death rates. More recently the President telephoned the George Floyd family to express general…

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#featured #kohut #carl rogers

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Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

We have now completed our journey around the Appreciative Triangle. We have ventured into the domains of information, intentions and ideas, and have delved into three appreciative strategies that relate to each of these domains: assessment (information), chartering (intentions) and empowerment (ideas). We have explored three strategies along the way that bridge these three domains: benchmarking…

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#edgar schein #chris argyris #hershey and blanchard #situational leadership #contextua leadership #blake and mouton #Margret Wheatly #Fred Fiedler