--- In cfntherapy@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Miller" <drmiller@c...> wrote:
> A new acute anxiety disorder client, a middle-aged psychiatrist, kept
> referring to his problem with father-figures . I told him that from a
CBT perspective our primate heritage has left us prone to feel
intimidated and submissive in the presence of alpha males, and that
one's early experience with alpha males (such as fathers) can either
desensitize that anxiety or reinforce it and lead to a phobic response
such as his. The look on his face was a simultaneous combination of
sudden understanding, hopefulness and, even more significantly,
grateful relief from what had been a long-time shame.

Sounds like he came to the right place, Bob!

Ken