Relieving Severe Anxiety in Children
Behavioral therapy should be combined with medication for childhood anxiety.
View ArticleWhere Psychotherapy Goes Wrong
Does your therapist seem to think your problems are all just due to your diseased mind or poor coping skills? They should be paying more attention to your social environment.
View ArticleCan a 4-Step Self-Help Therapy Technique End Upset Feelings?
Therapists use this technique to help their clients gain insight and feel better. Can it also relieve upset feelings if you use it as a self-help technique?
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Run into Your Therapist on the Street?
Have you ever had the unnerving experience of running into your therapist when you're not at all ready to see him or her? How will it likely play out and why?
View Article10 Psychological Concepts That People Don’t Get
Many aspects of human psychology that are consistently difficult for students to understand. Here is a list of 10 for starters.
View ArticleClinical Practice Guidelines
The authors address concerns over the newly released Clinical Practice Guidelines for the treatment of trauma.
View ArticleAnimal Research
Can research with animals advance human psychology? How trustworthy is a conservative commentator?
View ArticleWill Stress-Busting Vagus Nerve Gadgetry Be a Game Changer?
A new state-of-the-art vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device may offer a drug-free way to combat fight-or-flight responses. This patent-pending gizmo could be available by mid-2018.
View ArticleArt Therapy's HeARTache
Sometimes a spotlight illuminates; at other times, it blinds. Art therapists are experiencing both through a White House spotlight called "Healing with the HeArt."
View ArticleHow Attachment Style Affects Sexual Desire And Satisfaction
New research deepens our understanding of how attachment style affects sexual and relationship satisfaction in more diverse and real-world study populations.
View ArticleAnd Now Matt Lauer...Why Celebrities Get Sexually Aggressive
TV's Matt Lauer today joined the club of men in high positions who are being accused of sexual improprieties with women at work. What could he have been thinking? Here's what.
View ArticleWhy Profiling Serial Killers Can’t Work
All you know about a man is that he loves poetry and crossword puzzles. Is he more likely to be an English professor at Harvard or a truck driver?
View ArticleBeyond the Casting Couch - Part 2
If you are a sexual assault survivor, be aware that repeated exposure to the media's news stories is probably not in your best interest.
View ArticleFreud's Enduring Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Three of Freud's concepts still distinguish psychoanalytic treatment from cognitive varieties — regression, transference, and resistance.
View ArticleSunlight Is the Best Medicine
Justice Brandeis remarked, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” It also helps cure people, as first observed in tuberculosis patients. It targets depression, too.
View ArticleOne Size Rarely Fits All
Treatments are designed for groups, not people. How can we make them more precise?
View Article8 Paths in Life
Collected thoughts, evolving, on the task of finding one's way in life.
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