Nando Pelusi Ph.D.

About

Nando Pelusi, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist. He maintains a private practice in New York City and serves on the board of advisers of the National Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists. He regularly leads workshops on cognitive behavioral therapy for both the public and professionals.

His approach seeks to uproot dysfunctional beliefs and negative self-talk, drawing on philosophical and evolutionary principles to help people achieve goals and develop emotional and behavioral strength. Nando has a doctorate from Hofstra University and is a certified supervisor in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

Recent Posts

The Doomscroll: Is Happiness Possible Today?

Twitter is not a public square but an environment of performative action and voyeurism. It has emboldened a market of lurid scuffles without requiring your physical presence.

How to Direct Your Own Thinking in a Divisive Age

When the message is not “consider this,” but “believe and repeat this,” then reason is no longer the referee.

Prepare, Don't Predict: Strength via Uncertainty

We developed responses that are unconscious, like great caution for unknown foods, places, and even people.

Rethinking "Catastrophic Thinking"

The town cryers can serve the group -- lonely jeremiads occasionally helps us all.

The New Evolution Therapy

Psychotherapy will improve only when we understand what the brain evolved to accomplish.

The "Instinct" Instinct

Can you override an instinct with deliberate practice?

What Your Wikileaks Instinct Reveals About You

Many of our passions can swing wildly depending on the questions we pose to ourselves

Burning books in a digital age: fire and futility

Reification of an item or word into something real is a transmutation our species of mammal does well and easily.  We conflate a gesture with real aggression. If someone gives me the finger while driving I can choose to enrage myself or not.  

All my 888 children

A new study of Moulay’s foray informs us not only about male reproductive ceilings, but the willingness to avail oneself of opportunities when socially or politically (or coercively) possible.  

Taming the Rageful Lion Within

Most treatments for anger are palliative, in that they help you in the short run. But in order to uproot the tendency to carry anger, rage and resentment around requires a bit more than padding on an elliptical machine.