10 (Plus 6) Ideas About Diagnosis
In psychology, as with pain in medicine, you never know if the symptom is the intruder or the burglar alarm.read more
View ArticleThe Anti-Money Trap
I don’t care how many dream boards you have depicting beautiful houses and wonderful vacations. I don’t care if you carry a hundred dollar bill in your wallet to represent wealth. I don’t care that you...
View ArticleThird-Party Payment for Psychotherapy: (2) Medical Necessity
Health plans base coverage decisions on "medical necessity." But most psychotherapy is non-medical treatment for non-medical problems. This ill-fitting standard casts psychotherapy as a square peg in a...
View ArticleIs Freud Still Dead?
The current marginalization of psychoanalysis is ironically helping it to recover some of its constructively critical, culturally subversive and socially progressive roots.read more
View ArticleTravesty of Communication
Internal dialogue begins to germinate in an intersubjective fieldread more
View ArticleAddiction Treatment Today
Although we have made great strides in the recognition and acceptance of addiction, we need to ask- what do we know today that can that make a difference in the lives of those addicted to drugs? What...
View ArticleThe Narcissistic Therapist
Is your therapist self-absorbed? Does he place your needs as a patient secondary to his own needs? The problem may be he's a narcissistic therapist. read more
View ArticleDNA Duplication, Autism & Schizophrenia: What We Predicted!
The biggest study to date of gene duplications and deletions in relation to schizophrenia endorses the diametric model and its prediction that duplications associated with autism are protective.read more
View ArticleDealing with Toronto’s Mayor
Reality Check (1): Most substance addicts change their behavior without rehab of any kind. Reality Check (2): No matter how addictive crack can be, it is nothing like the demonized substance the media...
View ArticleDifficult Divorce? 6 Ways to Get Unstuck.
Divorce triggers upsetting feelings and can leave you not knowing what to do next. Here are six simple tips that can get you unstuck.read more
View ArticleWorking Behind the Mask
Taking advantage of the masks’ ability to simultaneously disguise and reveal, this post illustrates how an art therapist can use mask making to work behind the defenses put in place within the prison...
View ArticleTop Ten Art Therapy Visual Journaling Prompts
In the tradition of the "Top Ten Coolest Art Therapy Interventions," here is a list of the more popular visual journaling prompts used in art therapy, followed by some general guidelines for applying...
View ArticleDepressed, Then Sleepless? Or Vice Versa?
New research addresses this classic chicken-and-egg problem by showing that direct attention to insomnia can speed up relief from depression.read more
View ArticleSurviving Rape - Part One
Meet Regan, a prominent and successful professional in the real estate business and a volunteer rape crisis counselor. She is unfortunately no stranger to rape, as she and a roommate were raped 15...
View ArticleThe Surprising Secret of Why Therapy Works
Psychotherapy works because it makes social what we've mistakenly been taught to think is individual and private—not because it fixes what's wrong with us. The implications for how we relate in...
View ArticleThe 29 Senses of Normal
Given the many usages of the word "normal," does "normal" really have any meaning? And if it doesn't, what can "abnormal" mean? Can you base a profession, the mental health profession, on words without...
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