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Marcus Aurelius. Meditations With Selected Correspondence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 56
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Epictetus. Discourses, Fragments, Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 288
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Anthony de Mello. Awareness. New York: Doubleday, 1990, p. 12
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Mike Wallace. John Nash’s Beautiful Mind. In: 60 Minutes. New York: CBS News; Mar 17, 2002
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Anaïs Nin. Seduction of the Minotaur. In: Cities of the Interior. Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1974, p. 578
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Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now. Vancouver, BC: Namaste Publishing, 1997, p. 73
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Andrew Sullivan. I Used to Be a Human Being. New York, September 19th, 2016, p. 32
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Stephan Bodian. Wake Up Now. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008, p. 36
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Author! Author!
I had the great honor of authoring the chapter on Alcohol Use Disorder in Conn’s Current Therapy 2022, the venerable textbook that has been through 74 (!!) annual editions. With a little luck, you should be able read it via Google Books (Psychiatric Disorders, Page 803).
I’ve been asked to return for the 2023 edition. I plan to include some important new research on non-abstinent recovery (“progress, not perfection”). I’ll also be adding a section on how to actually deliver motivational enhancement therapy (a/k/a motivational interviewing) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) during brief sessions like office visits in primary care.
Many thanks to Rick Kellerman, M.D., for involving me in this most rewarding project! ✸
Muse Milestones
Newton observed that a body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by some outside force. This so-called law of inertia concerns the physical world but also seems to hold true in psychology (and here).
And so it is that I’ve reached the arbitrary Muse milestones of 500 days, 659 hours, 5 million Muse points and three headbands (they’re like running shoes—you eventually wear them out).
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As prior, many thanks for InteraXon for bringing such amazing technology to market. Much appreciation also for David Godman for answering my many questions. ✸
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Endnote. Some notable books that I’ve read since my last Muse post have included Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Final Talks by Annamalai Swami and The Book by Alan Watts. These concern beyond mindfulness, to which Ramana Maharshi points to here [p73]
What advantage is there in meditating for ten hours a day, if in the end that only has the result of establishing you a little more deeply in the conviction that it is you who are meditating?
Do not meditate—Be!
Do not think that you are—Be!
Don’t think about being—you are!