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Papers by Harris G McCarter

Research paper thumbnail of Directive activity and repair of the self in the cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: A case example

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of OCD, Urgent Search, and Adaptive Functioning: Humanizing the Neuroethological Model

Some symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) resemble and can go hand in hand with useful... more Some symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) resemble and can go hand in hand with useful and adaptive traits. A neuroethological model of OCD offers a way of understanding this relationship. The neuroethological approach views OCD as the result of the pathological activation of archaic brain structures related to those that regulate species-typical behavior in animals. Several variations on the model have been proposed, emphasizing different species-typical behaviors. Integrating features of these models could result in a more comprehensive model. Urgent search behavior may be part of a human species-typical routine for problem solving, and incorporating this routine within a comprehensive model of OCD offers a way of understanding the relationship between the disorder and what may be termed positive, obsessive-compulsive spectrum traits.

Research paper thumbnail of Integrating Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Psychotherapy

Research paper thumbnail of The Evidence-Based Treatment of Panic Disorder: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and its Integration with Pharmacotherapy

Research paper thumbnail of From The Neurofeedback Solution, Chapter 10: Traumatic Brain Injury

Talks by Harris G McCarter

Research paper thumbnail of PSYCHOTHERAPY: TREATMENT PROTOCOLS BOSTON PARK PLAZA HOTEL Introduction: The Use of Research-Based Treatment Protocols in Real Life Clinical Practice

Good Morning. Thank you for coming. There are over 300 of you registered, an unusually large numb... more Good Morning. Thank you for coming. There are over 300 of you registered, an unusually large number for one of our June conferences, and some of you have come from as far away as Japan. I take the turnout as a tribute to our topic. For the next two days, we will be discussing research based treatment protocols: the strengths, limitations, and complexities of their use in the real-life practice of psychotherapy, and the implications of psychotherapy research for health care policy. When we were planning our flyer, I wanted to use the phrase, "From Research To Reality," in the title, but the marketing expert amongst us warned that if we used the word "Research" it would be the kiss of death and no practicing clinicians would sign up. This is sad evidence of how irrelevant and unhelpful psychotherapy research has been in the past, as far as practicing clinicians were concerned. Still, I notice none of you has bolted for the door, despite my use of the "R" word. Perhaps some of you are only staying for the muffins at the break, but I believe that the presence of so many of you here today reflects a growing hope that a new, more fruitful relationship between research and clinical practice is developing.

Research paper thumbnail of Integrating the extraordinary into the ordinary: Spirituality and Psychotherapy

In the flyer for today's conference, this talk is titled, "Integrating the Extraordinary into the... more In the flyer for today's conference, this talk is titled, "Integrating the Extraordinary into the Ordinary in Psychotherapy," but I now realize that's a mistake. It should really be called, "Integrating the Ordinary into the Ordinary." Unfortunately, that doesn't sound very interesting, and nobody would know what it meant. However my point is that the phenomena I'm going to be talking about are really quite ordinary; they are going on around us all the time and make up a part of everyday experience. They are as much a part of our surroundings and experience as snow is for Eskimos. But unlike the Eskimos, with their famed multitude of words for snow, we psychotherapists have almost no words for these things, no conceptual place for them. So despite their ordinariness, they tend to get left out of our conversations, not only the conversations we have with our patients but also the conversations we have with ourselves, out of which we construct the narrative of our lives and our understanding of our patients'

Research paper thumbnail of Directive activity and repair of the self in the cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: A case example

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of OCD, Urgent Search, and Adaptive Functioning: Humanizing the Neuroethological Model

Some symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) resemble and can go hand in hand with useful... more Some symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) resemble and can go hand in hand with useful and adaptive traits. A neuroethological model of OCD offers a way of understanding this relationship. The neuroethological approach views OCD as the result of the pathological activation of archaic brain structures related to those that regulate species-typical behavior in animals. Several variations on the model have been proposed, emphasizing different species-typical behaviors. Integrating features of these models could result in a more comprehensive model. Urgent search behavior may be part of a human species-typical routine for problem solving, and incorporating this routine within a comprehensive model of OCD offers a way of understanding the relationship between the disorder and what may be termed positive, obsessive-compulsive spectrum traits.

Research paper thumbnail of Integrating Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Psychotherapy

Research paper thumbnail of The Evidence-Based Treatment of Panic Disorder: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and its Integration with Pharmacotherapy

Research paper thumbnail of From The Neurofeedback Solution, Chapter 10: Traumatic Brain Injury

Research paper thumbnail of PSYCHOTHERAPY: TREATMENT PROTOCOLS BOSTON PARK PLAZA HOTEL Introduction: The Use of Research-Based Treatment Protocols in Real Life Clinical Practice

Good Morning. Thank you for coming. There are over 300 of you registered, an unusually large numb... more Good Morning. Thank you for coming. There are over 300 of you registered, an unusually large number for one of our June conferences, and some of you have come from as far away as Japan. I take the turnout as a tribute to our topic. For the next two days, we will be discussing research based treatment protocols: the strengths, limitations, and complexities of their use in the real-life practice of psychotherapy, and the implications of psychotherapy research for health care policy. When we were planning our flyer, I wanted to use the phrase, "From Research To Reality," in the title, but the marketing expert amongst us warned that if we used the word "Research" it would be the kiss of death and no practicing clinicians would sign up. This is sad evidence of how irrelevant and unhelpful psychotherapy research has been in the past, as far as practicing clinicians were concerned. Still, I notice none of you has bolted for the door, despite my use of the "R" word. Perhaps some of you are only staying for the muffins at the break, but I believe that the presence of so many of you here today reflects a growing hope that a new, more fruitful relationship between research and clinical practice is developing.

Research paper thumbnail of Integrating the extraordinary into the ordinary: Spirituality and Psychotherapy

In the flyer for today's conference, this talk is titled, "Integrating the Extraordinary into the... more In the flyer for today's conference, this talk is titled, "Integrating the Extraordinary into the Ordinary in Psychotherapy," but I now realize that's a mistake. It should really be called, "Integrating the Ordinary into the Ordinary." Unfortunately, that doesn't sound very interesting, and nobody would know what it meant. However my point is that the phenomena I'm going to be talking about are really quite ordinary; they are going on around us all the time and make up a part of everyday experience. They are as much a part of our surroundings and experience as snow is for Eskimos. But unlike the Eskimos, with their famed multitude of words for snow, we psychotherapists have almost no words for these things, no conceptual place for them. So despite their ordinariness, they tend to get left out of our conversations, not only the conversations we have with our patients but also the conversations we have with ourselves, out of which we construct the narrative of our lives and our understanding of our patients'