What All Good Psychotherapy Has In Common
Daniel Glass
Evolutionary approaches to human behavior often try to “carve nature at its joints.” This phrase, somehow evocative of Pinocchio, means that when we try to describe or classify psychological phenomena, we shouldn’t use just any old arbitrary organization scheme. Rather, we should base our thinking on underlying natural, evolutionarily informed, realities.
This principle is especially salient to evolutionary clinical psychologists, because psychotherapists are encouraged to each develop their...