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  Legends, Lies, & Rewritten Lives: After the Little Bighorn: Forgotten Struggles of Those Who Walked Away

  Thomas B. Davidson

  This Narrative is about an event that occurred on June 25, 1876, on the banks of the Little Bighorn River in what is now the state of Montana. Seen from a 21st century perch, it tells a story of a contest between the armed representatives of two different civilizations, each of which fought in the manner of its society. The narrative will attempt to balance the truth of what happened while also relating an engaging story, but without drifting into sensationalism. The narrative will go beyond a focus on the meeting of the soldiers from either group to explore the event’s meaning for the nation. The story will discuss what happened and one authors view of the factors contributing to why. Yet the main emphasis will remain on what occurred in the aftermath to those involved.

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  Integrative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Guidelines - Ground-Rules

  Thomas B. Davidson

  The audience range this manuscript is aimed toward includes entry level students and early career clinicians wanting to anchor themselves in a certain wide lens or big-picture outlook about psychotherapy. This manuscript will also suggest the opportunity for early career clinicians to spruce up or sharpen their conceptual and treatment skills. In addition, an invitation will be offered for seasoned clinicians to re-think once more about the anchor points in their clinical approaches. Accordingly, this document aims not only toward young developing clinical students and early career clinicians but also other clinicians wanting to explore and develop a timely, level-headed foundational platform for conducting Integrative relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

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  A Condensed History of Modern Psychology

  Thomas B. Davidson

  The pedagogical technique of comparing and contrasting two conflicting points of view is common within the discipline of history as well as in many other academic contexts, including Psychology. This comparison of two viewpoints, as if there were really only two, simplifies and creates a binary that is easily grasped. The listeners exposed to such a binary presentation simply adopt a single, streamlined view and marshal arguments for that chosen side. This pedagogical approach usually surfaces the underlying contradictory tensions in the area to be examined. This allows for an exploration of the dissimilar or contrasting assumptions. Usually these two disparate positions represent extremes at either end of a continuum of view, usually the extreme pole along that continuum. This strategy will appear throughout our tour of Psychology’s history. Yet we will try to acknowledge in advance that various prominent views are privileged for various reasons. Truth be known, the field of Psychology actually expresses a plurality of perspectives. It is the position of this manuscript that this very plurality has to do with the notion of development itself and as Psychology has matured, it not only has reflected the changing historical constituencies, the field and its contents have become far more seasoned and increasingly diverse. These different constituencies have reflected the historical tensions within the field at the time they were developed.