Receiving my doctorate in 1961 just as John F. Kennedy was inaugurated president of the United States, I was inspired by his sentiment that any person can make a difference, and every person should try. In this memoir I review my professional journey of trying to make a difference in researching, teaching, supervising, and practicing clinical psychology and psychotherapy. I began my career by working on an evidence base for projective techniques. Upon joining the Stony Brook faculty, I shifted my efforts to research on and practice of behavior therapy, and then to the incorporation of cognition in developing cognitive behavioral therapy. Further work on integration consisted of closing the gap between research and practice, lowering the barriers that existed across schools of therapy, and incorporating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues into mainstream psychology.

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生活就是改变：专业回忆录


1961 年，约翰·肯尼迪 （John F. Kennedy） 就任美国总统，我获得博士学位，他的观点激励了我，即任何人都可以有所作为，每个人都应该尝试。在这本回忆录中，我回顾了我试图在研究、教学、监督和实践临床心理学和心理治疗方面有所作为的职业旅程。我的职业生涯始于研究投射技术的证据基础。加入 Stony Brook 教师后，我将精力转向行为疗法的研究和实践，然后将认知纳入认知行为疗法的发展。进一步的整合工作包括缩小研究与实践之间的差距，降低治疗流派之间存在的障碍，并将女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别问题纳入主流心理学。