Research Interests
It is sometimes helpful to know about research interests. There are three:1. How people see science and how this fits with what they believe should best happen to them in therapies and treatments. In particular, we need to know more about how to become present in the moment but also able to be personal scientists and objective about ourselves. Is it possible to be both and at what sort of times? This is very pertinent to the technique or way of life of Mindfulness.
2. How we can measure satisfactorily how our sytsems register pressures - i.e. how feeling something also registers with the sensory system, or affects diet or whatever? This is enquiry in the region of Multi Modal Therapy? I am a University Post Graduate student at present with a view to a PhD on the topic of how we recover from Depression - so many routes people tell me about but perhaps one or two main features of getting over it.
3. How prediction of areas of conflict can be improved. This means how can people learn to recognise areas where there are likely to be conflicts and where not in interpersonal situations (as opposed to mass conflict as in riots, wars?).
A special thing to mention here is that none of the clients I see becomes a research participant. You need have no doubt or uncertainty about this.
What is the common theme of these research interests. The uniting theme is that real things are a mixture of what we measure and also what we create. If you want a philosophical term I am nearest to a "instrumental realist". In a sense, it means that we know what we know via the instruments we use for looking at things. You never can know a person completely because the tools you have are limited. I use this sort of perspective for showing you how personal criticism from oneself or others is always missing the real you. This is my own brand of what some people call "self acceptance".
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