The Adaptive Living Equation
A formula for adaptive living is offered. It is the process by which one realistically maximizes one's valued states of being, given one's personhood and environment over time.
View ArticleQueer Couch for the Straight Girl
A queer therapist describes therapy with a straight woman, and how the therapist being out helped the client to create a new story for her life.
View ArticleLearning About Addiction
A huge problem in our country is that most of the people who we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified.
View ArticleIs There a Right to Grieve?
Some losses simply are not recognized by others. How can we enfranchise disenfranchised grief?
View ArticleSix Ways to Make Couples Therapy Work for You
Are you thinking about going to couples therapy? Avoid these common pitfalls for the best results.
View ArticleThe Next Eastern Therapy
In need of inspiration and rejuvenation? "Forest bathing" may be the remedy.
View ArticleMaking the Most of Psychotherapy, Counseling, or Coaching
What you do during and between sessions can make all the difference.
View ArticleHow Symptoms are Solutions
Worrying seems to be purposeless suffering. It's actually a solution to existential pain.
View ArticleOn Being Your Own Houseguest
How to use your personal reactions as a couple’s therapist
View ArticleAt CAMH, Pet Therapy Helps Decrease Stigma
Pet therapy increases connection and reduces isolation and loneliness.
View ArticleWhy the Best Therapy Is a Biopsychosocial Process
Many therapists are very narrow focused and use only a few favored methods. Yet unless a therapist assesses someone's difficulties broadly, important problems can be missed.
View ArticleThe Perception of Mental Illness: Stigma or Reality
The ongoing stigma about mental illness has tragically kept people from seeking treatment. Here's what you can do about it.
View ArticleFavorable Trajectories
How distinctive are antidepressants? Answers from research that looks at progress made by individual patients.
View ArticleA Letter To Therapists: Beware Financial Stress
Despite all of our research and experience, the field of psychology continues to ignore an issue hidden in plain sight.
View ArticleUS Mental Health Care Goes from the Worst To Even Worse
Great new report documents the terrible shortage in US funding for mental health and that we are criminalizing the severely ill.
View ArticleClearing the Fog: Craniosacral Therapy Aims to Ease Dementia
Applications of a surprising technique may offer relief from the memory and thinking losses that we call dementia.
View ArticleHow Many Deaths Will It Take? Prince Is Just the Latest
The news stories say Prince died of an overdose but it was not just of opiates: his death came from our collective overdose on the medicalization of chronic pain.
View ArticleGiving the Devil His Due
A study showcased as validating psychotherapy shows surprising benefits from medication.
View ArticleBoys without Fathers: 3 Myths & 3 Miracles
“Who’s missing” isn’t as important as “who’s there.”
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