A Psychological Solution to Bullying

When we advocate for laws against bullying, we declare the failure of psychology to solve the problem.
Izzy Kalman is the author/creator of the website Bullies2Buddies.com, and the world's most serious critic of the anti-bully movement. See full bio

Interview on Bullying with Prof. Helene Guldberg

Interview with Helene Guldberg, brave critic of the anti-bully movement.

I would like to sincerely thank Dr. Helene Guldberg for taking the time to answer my questions, and I invite my readers to look into her work. She is the Managing Editor of a fascinating website called spiked, and her writings there are both thoughtful and thought-provoking. She is currently working on a book to be published in 2010, ‘Just Another Ape?' that challenges much of the recent scientific thinking on the similarity between apes and human. She claims that the difference between humans and the other apes is far greater than what has been presented to us in recent years by the world's leading primatologists and evolutionary psychologists.

*******

For those readers who aren't familiar with my work other than through this Psychology Today blog, I would like to inform you that I do more than just criticize the anti-bully movement. I provide better solutions--psychological solutions--and much of what I offer is free on Bullies to Buddies. There are free manuals for kids and for adults that can be used for solving the bullying problem both in school and at home.

More recently, I put a few video clips from my whole-school bullying reduction program, Victim-Proof Your School, on the website. These are a few of the most useful scenes from the program, and you can use them to teach students and teachers how to handle some serious but common problems. I hope you will find them not only useful but also humorous. If you like them, please pass on the links to anyone else you believe will find them of value.

The scenes are:
The Idiot Game http://www.bullies2buddies.com/?q=node/139
Social Exclusion http://www.bullies2buddies.com/?q=node/138
How should teachers handle being bullied http://www.bullies2buddies.com/?q=node/137

Hope you take the time to watch them!

For anyone interested in my upcoming seminar schedule for Bully-Proofing Made Easy, you can access it here. I will be returning to New England next week. You will notice that I will also be giving several presentations of Anger Control Made Easy in the summer months.

Best Wishes,
Israel (Izzy) Kalman



Subscribe to A Psychological Solution to Bullying

Find a Therapist

Search our customized Directory for a licensed professional near you.

Current Issue

Everyday Creativity

How to start living creatively and reap the benefits.