Well phoey on Dr. Goleman. He did make it and I have it around her somewhere I will look more when I have some time.
If there is any 'in' to reply, you might remind him that it pertained to a comment after his death that sort of honored him and it was in an article, possible in psych today. See if that jogs his memory.
(and it was that erickson's contribution to the practise of therapy was possibly as important as freud's contribution to the original theory.)