The Intuitive and Analytical Thinking Style: Which One is Yours?
The human brain is sophisticated. It separates us from all other animals. It allows us to have abstract ideas and to solve complex problems. We are rational social beings, or are we? It can be said...
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Negativity Bias: Why Negative Things Stand Out
Positive thinking can feel like a job to do, while negative thinking seems to happen more automatically. In fact, this is true at a very fundamental level of the brain, studies show. It is called...
View ArticleThe Reasons Why People Maintain Negative Self-Evaluations
Why would people maintain negative self-evaluations when they result in a great degree of distress? What purpose do negative self-evaluations have? Do they help us solve our problems, or do they help...
View ArticleCan’t See the Forest for Trees? Studies Show The Mental Benefits of Engaging...
Our culture has too often talked in terms of conquering nature. This is about as sensible as for a caddis worm to talk of conquering …
View ArticleThe 100% Deal When It Comes to Making Long-Lasting Change
Did you already drop your New Year’s Resolution? It might be too early to drop it, so what is going on? We want to see …
View ArticleIf You Struggle With Controlling Your Attention, Goal Reminders Can Help You,...
A new experiment (using a so-called Stroop test) finds that goal reminders help people solve a task that requires both working memory capacity and attentional …
View ArticleInside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 3 The Meta-Level Dialogue
I want to share with you how the dialogue in metacognitive therapy is different from other talk therapies that I have done, from my point …
View ArticleInside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 5 Changing Focus
In this series, I dwell on my own experiences of metacogntive therapy from my perspective as a therapist. In this post, I want to show …
View ArticleInside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 8 Detached Mindfulness...
In this post, I follow up on how detached mindfulness can be applied in therapy and in everyday situations. This is my last post in …
View ArticleInside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – A Series of 8 Posts
Each post is a 5 min read into Metacognitive Therapy. While it took me 25 hours to write these blog posts, it will take you about 30 minutes to read them all. Enjoy your dive. Introduction to …
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