Dr. Daley has had several articles published about him, but this one is the one that makes him the most proud.
A Peninsula Profile True Love Story: Couple show it ‘comes down to the little things’
Diane Urbani de la Paz
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Below is a copy of the link that will take you to the abstract (and first page) of Dr. Daley’s doctoral dissertation (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1983, Vol. 30, No. 1, 104-107):
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Dr. Daley, as a graduated student, also participated in a research program focused on developing a scale to measure attitudes toward rape. The link below takes you to the abstract for that research, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43(2), 372–384.
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-3514.43.2.372
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Dr. Daley also wrote a “single session” article about an equine facilitated psychotherapy session. If it was ever published, we don’t remember where or when (circa 2005). The article is reprinted below, if you are interested:
WHAT IF MY HUSBAND WAS A HORSE:
Lessons in Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy
By Paul C. Daley, Ph.D. (Licensed Psychologist [#913])
and ““Jennifer””
“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Theoretical review. Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) is a branch of animal-assisted therapy, rooted in a convergence between medicine/psychology and recreational therapy. In reviewing the literature, one learns five lessons: EFP is a relatively common form of therapy; EFP is a valuable and efficacious unique or adjunctive treatment approach to a variety of mental health problems; the empirical research is both suggestive of the value of EFP as a treatment approach, and only suggestive; case studies suggest that EFP is appropriate even for some very severely emotionally/psychologically disturbed clients; and the horse can play several different “roles” in EFP (a soothing, gentling, safe “co-therapist”; a risky situation; or an opportunity for insights and metaphors for human interactions).
The client. ““Jennifer”” (a pseudonym) is a 54 year old, married (15 years), Caucasian woman, a long-term client. Her marriage is “complex.” Her husband has never functioned well, and she has “over” functioned. Her husband was “not an alcoholic, g’damn it!” on an episodic (four to 16 times per month) basis. Her parents had both abused alcohol, and she is remarkably “at home” with alcohol-driven behaviors.
The session. “Jennifer” is an experienced horseback rider. I started this session by informing her of “Bandit’s” history of “acting out” over the course of his life. “Jennifer” looked bored during this phase of the session. Her private reaction was, “… to think, ‘Why are you telling me this? Don’t you want me to like this horse? Are you trying to make me afraid of this horse?’”
She started talking about a recent regression. On a recent vacation, her husband had stayed late in the lounge. At about 3:00 a.m., a markedly intoxicated man came to their patio and asked to continue his conversation with her husband. She hissed at the man to, “Get the hell out of here! Get the f*** out of here!” The man would not leave. She tried to “hiss” her husband into action, but he just got angry. She and her husband regressed to a “good old days” ugly, hurtful, name calling, hostile, mean-spirited fight and then had another awful fight the next day.
“Jennifer” felt that she had handled the situation relatively well, except for a vague doubt that nagged at her. “Dr. Daley’s next words flattened me. He bet me that, as a 12-year old girl – dreaming about what I would like my life to be like – that I never dreamed for it to be like this, with crazed drunk people on my vacation patio at 3:00 a.m. The chaotic times, people who needed others to be responsible for them, these were things I dreamed to be rescued away from… I just didn’t want to have to go through these kinds of situations with my husband any more.”
Sometimes it helps to learn from simpler situations. The thought occurred to me, “What if her husband was a horse?” What would she do then? The idea intrigued “Jennifer”. She remembered a problem she had experienced with her own horse and how creative her solution had been, especially relative to her approach to her problems with her husband. (She could not get her horse to go through a muddy bog, so she backed her through!) Her solution to this horse problem was also illustrative. With her horse, she just kept trying to solve the problem until she succeeded; with her husband, she would hiss, yell, abandon, pout, act disgusted, humiliate, attack, blame, etc. And she was quite clearly more successful with her horse!
Summary. Psychotherapy has very few algorithms to offer clients. Most of what people learn in therapy is heuristics, but the exact application of the heuristic varies from moment to moment, situation to situation, and person to person, and all we can hope for is for the client to thoroughly enough understand the heuristic that they can apply it on their own. “Jennifer” had a very clear understanding that she would have to do something different if she wanted to be shed of the alcohol-driven chaos her husband brings into their marriage. She knew that fixing both her marital problems and problems with her horse may take effort after effort after effort, and the final result may still be imperfect. But she did not know what to do different at that moment in time.
One year follow-up. One year later, “Jennifer’s” marriage has continued to improve. They started teaching a dance class together. They are sharing finances now (she used to be the sole support). And her husband went through a period of about four months of total abstinence from alcohol. He apologizes to her when he hurts her (he used to attack her), comes home when he says he is coming home, and he has built a dream room for them in their home.
Conclusions. With people, we are so quick to get angry, pout, attack, withdraw, complain, bitch, attack, hit, cry, whine, plead, negotiate, ignore, yell, etc., and the results are about the same as we achieve when we do the same thing to a horse: failure.
Paul C. Daley, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist (#913) 