Good Morning Little Brown,
Oh, no! No professional psychology at all. Those Behaviorists you mentioned (Piaget, Skinner and Eysenck) well, they were the ones that started the revolution against the scamming quack Psychoanalysts (all the Big Names that are mostly still revered, at least at the Psych 101 Introductory Level, which they shouldn't.... it would be like if medical school still glorified the early 'medical' theories such as infectious diseases were spread by swamp 'miasma' gas and such. We know those early names were scam artists, so they need to drop the names like they never existed and move on to practices that followed from studies, data, experiments and other scientific methodologies. Freud can be saved for the History books in regards to how every aspect of capitalist society is subject to corruption. Oh, the big names in CBT are Albert Ellis, who invented the concept, though under a different name (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and then Aaron Beck who did find the correct name for it. My favorite popular Psychologist, who has written a great deal about anger, is Ronald Potter-Efron. Here at the forum, I start out by giving seriously angry people, who have those loud episodes that get them into trouble, I give them my lecture on Cortisol and the Jaw Muscles. and then I move onto CBT. CBT takes a lot of work. It is like learning how to play the violin. it also takes intelligence. Really, you can use CBT to remake your personality. And so one really has to go into it thinking "who do I really want to be". You can not only get rid of just all the old bad habits and thought patterns, but you can install all new stuff. But, it is like learning how to play the violin. Practice Practice Practice. Most angry people stay angry because they have no idea of the work involved in recreating themselves. I think it must be comparable to Acting. Hmmmm, maybe I should buy a few books on 'acting'. Anger management may only require being able to step into a mild mannered character. I've recently been reading some of the old Raymond Chandler "Philip Marlowe" detective books (classics in their own way.... I went from re-reading Jane Austen to re-reading Chandler... a kind of balance), and in some of his books where his Marlowe character meets with Hollywood Movie Actors, well, when they get into difficulty, they maneuver by 'acting roles' that seem more adaptive then anything they would do as 'themselves'. So, yeah, It's good to be talking with you, Little Brown... it's given me an idea.