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Eli A

Eli A

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  • Bucharest, Romania
  • member since November 19, 2008

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  • Ana

    Ana says

    Eu mi-am luat acum The Night Circus. Te anunt daca se ridica la inaltimea review-urilor :)

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ana

    Ana says

    O da. Sotia calatorului in timp chiar mi-a placut. Sa-mi spui ce parere ai.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Augusta N

    Augusta N says

    Welcome to the group based on the book 1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE.
    There is a general explanation of the group and some answers to FAQ under the discussion thread GROUP GUIDELINES. The past BOTM (books of the month) can be found pinned to the top for 2010 and 2009 if you want to search discussions you can join in anytime.

    Our July BOTMS are:
    The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Please join us in reading one or all. The discussion questions are posted and pinned to the top of the discussions.
    If you read another book from one of the official lists please post a review and rating in the discussion thread for other books.
    Happy reading!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dreamKeeper

    dreamKeeper says

    I wish you a Merry Christmas with Jesus Christ, the true meaning of Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Joe M

    Joe M says

    Hey Eli,
    So sorry for the delayed response...I appreciate your patience.
    Thank you for telling me about the trajectory to pursue psychotherapy in Romania--that is informative. Here, in the U.S., it's an average of 4-5 years + 1 year on internship (and before the time I was in school, before standards were enacted, it wasn't unheard of for some people to be in school as much as 8 years! absurd).
    The type of therapy I practice is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT for short)...it is really a broad rubric encompassing a different group of therapies. The original, 'traditional' approach by Aaron Beck and his colleagues (originally, it was called "CT"), and the newer radical behaviorist (also known as 'contextualist') & mindfulness approaches that rose up partially as a reaction to the Beck-ian model--the most popular examples of these include Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Behavioral Activation (BA), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). I went to school at the University of Washington, where the latter 3 therapies arose--my research group was involved in the development of BA. I would say as a clinician, my style is a mixture of the traditional CT and BA techniques.

    The clinical psychology system in the U.S. promotes what is called the "Boulder model" (named for the city of Boulder, Colorado), a.k.a. "scientist-practitioner" model, so that clinical psychologists who are trained at an academic university as I was are trained in both research and clinical work--but if it's at an academic university, you are basically groomed to pursue an academic track of research/teaching. In reality, the "Boulder model" is rarely successfully implemented, which is one of its criticisms, as one is almost always forced to ultimately pick between a Research vs. a Clinical career, unless one wants to become a workaholic :)...it's the notion that to do something well, you can't wear two hats. It is much easier to go from a Research --] Clinical career rather than go from Clinical --] Research career. I said it was a 'big decision' in the sense that I was going against the grain of what I was groomed for, but also because while not an impossible move, the Clinical ---] Research move is a difficult one: there's definitely more of a feeling of shutting a career door, as you are then in the position of competing (in terms of getting grants, faculty positions, etc.) with those who have always been Research from the time they walked out the graduate school door.

    So, is CBT known in Romania, or in Romania is psychoanalysis still the dominant practice? Here, psychoanalysis and the other psychodynamic approaches are pretty much obsolete and considered a quaint artifact of another time (the exceptions being in NYC, where it is still practiced, and maybe some other places like California). As clinical psychology has moved to a "social science," psychoanalysis does not render itself well to empirical observation and testing, by the very virtue of its appeal to unconscious motivations and impulses. In this manner, cognitive and/or behavioral based therapies have supplanted it.

    I hope that might convey some info as to how it works over here...If you ever would like to take Romanian psychotherapy into the CBT realm and expand its development, practice, recognition, etc. than please stay in touch with me. I would relish the opportunity to come over and talk about it.

    Best, Joe

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • RAJ b

    RAJ b says

    hi ELI,

    IT is just a ordinary story of an ordinary bengali family life.......Indian husband wife living in foreign land, son growss up to be halp american half indian, as usual has identity criisis.....it is very nomal........ just justaposed interpretation of the main protagonist's name which is the same as a famous russian writer........no meaning actually in this connection.....

    so a very ordinary story......arrranged marraige....husband wife in foreign land...wife bit lonely........child grows up with confused identitity....mother nto able to accept the mordern values of son,who marries a bengali girl to find our she has a french lover. & divorces her..Later husband dies.......wife returns to india.........that summarises it...........with emotions thrown on everything that happens in between. you may ask after reading.........whats NEW?..its just life of a normal family in a book.

    although give it a try and give me your views.......woudl love to read your view post reading the namesake.....
    take care
    bye
    RAJ

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Joe M

    Joe M says

    Mulţumesc, Eli! :) Well, I owe my knowledge of all-things-Romanian to my dear friend Solyaris...yes, I have enjoyed Eliade and Cioran a lot; Cioran's style is so furiously nihilistic, but so passionate a writer. I have still to read, sitting on my shelf, "Rites and Symbols of Initiation" by Eliade and "Temptation to Exist" and "Fall into Time" by Cioran. I have not read "Love's Executioner" or "When Nietzche Wept" yet; I have a friend in Buenos Aires who has been urging me to read the latter (in Spanish, "El Día que Nietzche Lloró") as well...so, someday, though for now my book queue is way too long already.

    So, what does it take to be a therapist in Romania? Do they distinguish between Masters- and Doctorate- levels? I made the big decision earlier this year to be a full-time therapist--exclusively seeing patients, rather than research, which is usually the path we are urged down in graduate school--but I don't regret it at all. Anyway, congratulations on pursuing psychology studies, and please let me know if I can ever be of any help...

    Joe

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Joe M

    Joe M says

    Hi Eli A! :)

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Claudiu b

    Claudiu b says

    hey...welcome!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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