Walter Logeman: Journal
I have enjoyed some of the writing and audio from Al Turtle a relationship therapist. I get an RSS feed of his updates and today found a link to his favourite books. Great idea!
I found an ebook of A. E. Van Vogt’s The World of Null-A, non-Aristotelian logic in SF form. I see that this is not a one-off in Al’s list! He is into General Semantics – intrigued I went off on a search trail.
A swag follow.
I am reflecting on the use of space and how it influences dialogue, and more broadly communication (though they are essentially the same thing… flow of meaning.) Found an interesting article:
UNDERSTANDING THEATRE SPACE
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (2002)
I have been wondering how courts and juries fir into the history of all of this… and there is a clue here!
How might a restorative justice space look?
The biggest question on my mind though is how we use space in cyberspace – and how we can create more intentional dialogue.
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Continue reading ““The use of space has a profound effect on the audience””
Psyberspace Google News – by my design. Updated as needed.
Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool | Bryan Appleyard – Times Online:
Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool Utopians believed the internet would be an unstoppable force for democracy, but the bad guys have got wise
There is something that does not ring right about this article, or perhaps the work of Ron Diebert. The take on this data is a bit weird, though the facts might be right.
More quotes and more of my comments and an experiment follows.
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More on the Lancet study of psychotherapy online, from Brainblogger.
Logging On for Psychotherapy | Brain Blogger:
A recent issue of The Lancet reports that real-time online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in treating patients with depression. The study evaluated nearly 300 patients from 55 general practice clinics across the United Kingdom who had a diagnosis of depression. The patients were randomly assigned to either receive online CBT in addition to their usual care from the general practitioner, or be placed on an 8-month waiting list for CBT while still receiving their usual care. At the 4-month follow-up, 38% of the CBT group had recovered from their depression, compared to only 24% in the control group. After 8 months, 42% of the patients receiving CBT had recovered, compared to 26% in the control group.
In the comments I wrote:
Good to see the research. While there may not be such easy to collate evidence for depth psychology and psychotherapy using the online therapeutic relationship as the main focus of the work, from my practice in this field it can be done. The use of imagination is enhanced while writing, hence often the book is better than the film.
New Chapter on Technology in Supervision!
Authored by DeeAnna Nagel, Stephen Goss and Kate Anthony, a new chapter called “The Use of Technology in Supervision” has just been published under the section heading “Emerging and Specialist Issues” in “The Clinical Practice of Supervision”, edited by Pelling, Barletta and Armstrong, published by Australian Academic Press (2009).
Why do I let this come through each week? One reason is that my blog is a tool for my own thinking & writing. And these tweets will come up in a search on the blog. That is handy! I am not sure how else I could find them. Twitter keeps them, but not always available via their API restrictions. ??