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Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention will be held November 15 – 18, 2012 in National Harbor, MD. For more information visit: http://www.abct.org/Members/?m=mMembers&fa=Convention... More>


The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever


Shannon Wiltsey Stirman

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD Boston University School of Medicine, USA http://www.bumc.bu.edu/psychiatry/faculty-staff/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the implementation of evidence ... More>


Psychologists Stress the Importance of Memory in Preventing Relapse after Therapy

Addictions, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder—such painful and harmful problems are recalcitrant to treatment. In the clinic, a person may suppress the association between the stimulus and the response—say, a bar with ashtrays and smoking—by learning to pair the stimulus with a new memory not involving smoking. But once out in the world, faced with bars and ashtrays aplenty, he relapses into the old behavior. Some treatment aims at helping the patient avoid locations and stimuli that trigger the harmful behavior.... More>


45th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

The 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies will be held November 10-13, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. For more information visit: http://www.abct.org/Conv... More>