"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."   James Hollingworth

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."  Leonardo da Vinci

"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."  Antoine de Sainte Exupery 

I have just written a series of three posts on Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice".   This led to a query about when we should use direct exposure to trauma memories, when introduce more deliberate cognitive restructuring of linked trauma beliefs, and when add in more complex rescripting as, for example, described by Arntz & Jacob?

I have recently written a couple of blog posts about diet and mental health - "Emerging research on diet suggests it's startlingly important in the prevention of anxiety & depression" and "So what dietary advice should we be following - for psychological as well as physical health?" 

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database -

(This post on "Written exposure therapy" is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.    James Hollingworth

Denise Sloan, associate director at the US National Center for PTSD, has produced many fine publications on therapeutic writing.  However I think she has surpassed herself with her most recent: