FEATURED TOPICS OF A MONTREAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Common themes of the workplace
Read more about some of the themes and services of my work in the Montreal psychology workplace
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Latest from the blog
- 08Jul2020
Covid: my new sport?
I’m not sure exactly when it began, or more importantly, when it became an entrenched habit. But, for the last months, I’ve had a regular routine of looking at the daily stats concerning the pandemic. …
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- 30Apr2020
The Bee Gees are back!
Just before nodding off to sleep last night my wife turned over and asked me: “are you happy?”
As with most men hearing this question, instant alarm bells went off. With later elaboration, what she really meant was, now during…
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- 20Apr2020
Developing New Habits
Good habits are great, they function like automatic algorithms that silently function in the background to help us engage in adaptive behaviour. Habits can not only propel us to good things that they do so automatically and without highly…
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FEATURED READINGS FROM DR. B
As part of my coaching, I make it a habit to loan books from my collection to address specific issues in the workplace. Here’s what on my shelf right now.
Mind Tools for Managers by Manktelow and Birkinshaw
I still remember the day when I came to work in my first managerial job as Chief Psychologist in large university-based health sciences center in Montreal. Youthfully naïve and thinking that the position was some celestially guided reward for being an effective and hard working clinical psychologist, I was woefully unprepared for what awaited me.
The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
I’m a skeptic at heart when I hear about exaggerated claims to psychotherapies be they old or new. This past week, two came into view. The first arrived in the form of a book from a client extolling Adlerian therapy -The Courage to be Disliked By Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. The second, Compassion
