Saturday 30 September 2017

The Preface of our new book is now available on our website. This is how it begins: "Despite our learning about the body-mind connection, from stress management and from Chi Kung, we continued to be controlled by the dominant psychological and psychotherapeutic model (as expressed in rational and cognitive therapy, and all other systems of therapy), in which the mind and body have been pulled apart and treated as separate entities. And therefore we continued to believe it was possible to help individuals who had problems with depression and anxiety, simply by talking about their beliefs, perceptions, interpretations and attitudes – regardless of how they managed their bodies.

"We both continued to have this schizophrenic attitude towards the body-mind – seeing them as united (for purposes of stress management), but strongly believing them to be separate (for purposes of psychology and psychotherapy).

"This schizophrenic approach fell apart in 2007, when I (Jim) began to ‘add back the body’ to the psychological/ psychotherapeutic understanding of human disturbance. (See the Holistic SOR model, in Byrne 2016[1]; and the body-connection, in Chapter 3 of Byrne 2017[2]). https://abc-counselling.org/diet-exercise-mental-health/


Saturday 23 September 2017

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes





Dramatic video presentation on Rational and Cognitive therapy...

Tuesday 19 September 2017


Sunday 17 September 2017

THE LIFE OF DANIEL O’BEEVE

He was born into a world that was so emotionally cold that it would be a miracle if he merely survived, with no real chance of living and growing and blossoming into a vital human being.

Thirty-six generations of his ancestors had been crushed by the jackboot of an invading empire.  They were treated like dirt.  Robbed of their humanity.  Consigned to the dustbins of history as a margin note; and an unflattering one at that.

But against all the odds, the empire was driven out, only to be replaced by a group of broken gombeen men; products of too much denigration and dehumanization to be able to restored the human soul of old Ireland.  They were joined in ‘power’ by a feudal religion which favoured ignorance over knowledge.

Daniel was born into this mess, among the lowest classes of that screwed up society.  He was not to expect anything. He should adapt and conform to the crushing deflation to which he was subjected from the beginning of his life. https://abc-counselling.org/jim-byrnes-autobiographical-novel/



Saturday 16 September 2017

To encounter the mind of another human being - especially one who has been on a particularly exotic or unusual journey through life - is to taste and feel part of their journey.  When the person in question is a remarkable writer, the journey is all the more worthwhile.  Don't waste your time reading the undeveloped.  Seek out the developed mind! https://abc-counselling.org/paperback-books-by-dr-jim-byrne-with-renata-taylor-byrne/


Sunday 10 September 2017

Couples Therapy

Tuesday 5 September 2017

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes



Many of this author’s criticisms of REBT apply equally to all forms of CBT which utilise the ABC model of human disturbance.
Dr Byrne begins by showing that Dr Ellis was wrong on two major counts:
Firstly, Ellis’s claim that there is a difference in degree of disturb-ability of humans and other animals, and that the cause of that difference is the existence of language, and the capacity that provides to humans to think about their experiences, and to think about their thinking.  Dr Byrne presents scientific evidence to refute this line of reasoning by Dr Ellis.
And secondly, Ellis’s claim that he had evidence (in the form of a foundational case study) that people are upset by their thinking, plus their thinking about their thinking.  In a line by line analysis of the relevant text from Dr Ellis’s 1962 book, Dr Byrne destroys the basis of this false claim.
One of the world’s biggest banks just predicted the Tory government is going to collapse
A major international bank has just given a warning to Theresa May that will be music to the ears of Jeremy Corbyn supporters. Because it has, in no uncertain terms, said that the Conservative government will collapse in 2018; triggering a general election. No confidence Morgan Stanley is a multinational bank and investment management company. […]

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Monday 4 September 2017

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes





Have you seen my passionate presentation on Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy...?

Sunday 3 September 2017

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes





A brief video introduction to my REBT CBT Book: Title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes https://youtu.be/lfmCs9hbN04

Saturday 2 September 2017

REBT CBT Book: title, Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes





Dr Jim Byrne presents a brief video introduction to his recent book critiquing Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (RE & CBT)