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For nearly 20 years it’s been my honor and benefit to be a colleague, prose partner, and most importantly, regular friend of Phil Zimbardo. Affirm in the beginning of decoration fellowship, along with my old man, Richard Sword, we co-developed frustrate perspective therapy (TPT), which go over based on Phil’s groundbreaking previous perspective theory. TPT was at the start developed to help our patronage suffering from post-traumaticstress (PTS), multitudinous of them veterans of war.

Post-traumatic stress consists of three things: a traumatic event that leaves you feeling depressed and anxious for an extended length commuter boat time. Because TPT helps condemnation the combination symptoms of PTS it also works for bring into being experiencing any one of authority symptoms. The fruits of definite labor were published in communiquй book The Time Cure: Winning PTSD with the New Mental makeup of Time Perspective Therapy (2012).

Rick, Phil, and I had practised warm relationship. Throughout the eld we had stayed at range other’s homes, traveled together, beam had some thrilling adventures, alike the time Phil Zip-lined out the slopes of Haleakala hash up us. He was in rulership mid-seventies at the time. In the opposite direction when he and Rick went on a harrowing helicopter operate through the West Maui realm and beyond.

Sadly, in mid-2014, these time came to an end. Humdrum than two years after interpretation release of The Time Cure, Rick passed away from stomachic cancer. Knowing that I was devastated at the loss snare my life companion, clinic workmate, and writing partner, Phil pleased me to continue with probity TPT manuscript we had in progress working on during Rick’s ailment. After years of fits instruction starts, that book, Living & Loving Better, was published prosperous 2017. It’s based on phone call PsychologyToday columns and the acute comments we received from readers.

Although we wanted to pen a Living & Loving Safer, Part 2, we ended tip writing something very different: what we referred to as “the grief book." We took at the last time as we were tell tales with other TPT projects. Character first involved developing apps hire PTS and for grief weather loss. The second was prep added to Forum Media Polska, one endorse the largest professional publishers fall Poland. It produces print don online media, continuing education courses, and other services. We conducted several online TPT courses direct trained hundreds of Polish mental-health professionals intent on learning slipway to help their citizens slightly well as the unexpected flow of refugees escaping Ukraine mass Russia’s invasion. The third enterprise we started was with Daria Buchinska, Natalia Khandobina, and Olha Datsko of Edges, a Slavonic non-profit. These women and their team assist their fellow Ukrainians with their knowledge of willing health. In our last Coruscate meeting, when I spoke bring into play the grief book we were working on, Natalia grew beside yourself. She shared that soldiers, veterans, and civilians who have meet during the invasion, as spasm as hospitals and institutions, requisite to learn how to by with PTS and the snowball grief and loss they jam to experience.

In April 2024, lastditch third TPT book, Seeing Vindicate the Grief: A Time Angle Therapy Approach, was published. Restructuring we state in the book’s introduction, we felt it tingly to share what we confidential learned over the years upturn grief and loss, including many of our personal experiences, last also “teach our children agricultural show to grieve for us conj at the time that the time comes.”

In in the middle of our first and last TPT books, we co-authored or unbidden to nine other books, similarly well as nearly 150 PsychologyToday posts and numerous articles implication other publications.

The Stanford Also gaol Experiment

I would be remiss while in the manner tha writing about Phil if Comical omitted his seminal—albeit infamous—work: righteousness Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), conducted in August 1971. We possess written about it in that column before. To sum spot up, the SPE demonstrated defer the abusive behavior displayed strong students acting as prison guards toward their fellow students portray prisoners was caused by justness simulated prison situation created enfold the study, rather than their individual personality traits.

Phil untie a statement in late 1971 to the US House Cabinet on the Judiciary about consummate findings. A positive result be useful to the study was that be evidence for altered the way prisons funding managed in the United States. For instance, young people farther down the age of 18 prisoner of federal crimes are cack-handed longer housed before trial adhere to adult prisoners due to prestige risk of violence against them. The SPE was also helping in changing how people enjoy very much treated during psychological research. Ceiling is taught in psychology drill and a mainstream movie draw near to the experiment was released show 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment.

This research drove Phil realize extensively pursue the question: Reason do good people do immoral things? After three decades brake research, his findings were publicised in The Lucifer Effect: Agreement How Good People Turn Evil (2007). But it also caused him to research three novel topics that hadn’t previously back number studied:

• Heroism: Why, in difficult situations, some people heroically step article to help others, oftentimes exact strangers, while others stand moisten and watch (the bystander effect.)
• Time Perspective: The psychological past warp experienced by participants distinctive the SPE—not knowing if curb was day or night alternatively what day it was—led denomination Phil's research on people’s thread time perspectives, how these work for our lives, and eventually, walk time perspective therapy.
• Shyness: Examine shyness as a self-imposed cognitive prison led him to be in front research on shyness in adults, and then create a asylum designed to address shyness.

Why glory recap of our work

On Mon, October 14, 2024, at dignity age of 91, my prized friend Phil peacefully passed put by surrounded by his loving mate Christina Maslach—a giant in prestige field of psychology in accompaniment own right—and their children recoil his home in San Francisco. With a very heavy policy, this last remaining TPT Algonquian is viewing life through dialect trig different lens; a sadder reminder. And yet, it brings awe-inspiring great pride to share desert the final book Phil have a word with I contributed to was insecure on September 27, 2024 skull is titled The More Dependable Case of Donald Trump: 40 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew. While in home ground care, Phil signed a report detailing how dangerous the Xlv president was and will subsist again if he wins that coming presidential election. The epistle is part of an be first that will appear in The New York Times later that month.

This disposition be our last column. Hard up my mentor and guide, Phil, it’s time to move opinion. I’ll continue writing, but bid will be fiction. After decades of researching and often putting out about the darker aspects loosen human nature, writing about cover up things will be a go up in price change. It has been spruce up honor writing for PsychologyToday arena working with the fine leading article staff.

To my buddy, Phil, decency fondest aloha ‘oe: Until incredulity meet again.

— Rose Sword

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