Happiness with Others 3: Be Generous of Spirit
Find out how to rocket your happiness to new levels by becoming a living, breathing source of generosity. read more
View ArticleMultiple Personality—Mental Disorder, Myth, or Metaphor?
Multiple Personality Disorder is a fake diagnosis that occurs when a gullible therapist and a suggestible patient influence each other in the creation of new personalities.read more
View ArticleMental Illness, Media, and the Health Care System
Mental illness has been in the press frequently over the past year. Media coverage have highlighted the struggle that many individuals and families face daily such as mass shooting (at schools and...
View ArticleA Clinic Invested In Your Identity
The freedom to perform our lives with fearlessness, versatility, and truth is optimal mental health. Dr. Charles Silverstein's IHI Therapy Center has helped clients to approach their lives in this way...
View ArticleSex with a Former Patient
Relations with a Former Patient? Temptations of the Profession.read more
View ArticleThe War on Grief
The enormity and everlastingness of the grief following a traumatic loss are not manifestations of psychopathology; they are a measure of the depth of love for the lost beloved. read more
View ArticleHow to Unleash Your Creativity and Find Inspiration Today!
Inspiration can be defined as a new and better way of answering a question, or solving a problem. In life, we often get bogged down by busy-ness and set patterns. Sometimes it’s hard to come up with...
View ArticleCulturally Incompetent Therapy: When Therapists Do Harm
I recently received an email from a distraught reader who shared his experience of racism with his therapist, only be met with ridicule and disbelief. Many ethnic and racial minorities who need therapy...
View ArticleLobotomy: When Treatment Helps the Doctor, Not the Patient
Lobotomy: When treatment helps the doctor but not the patient. Sometimes attempts to alleviate suffering can go terribly wrong. Mental health professionals often feel helpless in the face of another’s...
View ArticleWomen's Worries, Anxieties and Fears: Why We Hang on to Them
Anxiety is more insidious than a simple manipulative trick: the feeling is real. Fear can be cultivated like some poisonous garden; even when you don’t want to nurture it and have no desire to harvest...
View ArticleKnowing What You Know. How It Matters
Self-knowledge resides in memory. As with all memory, it can be strong or weak, true or false, recalled or forgotten, useful or harmful. You decide.read more
View ArticleManhattan Transference Part 5
Understanding transference in group therapy can offer an insight into your projection onto others.read more
View ArticleDoes Music Have Healing Powers?
Does music really have healing power? Research says yes. Music therapy has demonstrated efficacy as an independent treatment for reducing depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. read more
View ArticleValentine's Day Blues
Valentine's Day: He feels coerced. She feels neglected. Can they reach a resolution?read more
View ArticleIs Psychoanalysis Right for Me?
Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott said it best: Psychoanalysis is for those who want it, need it, and can take it.read more
View ArticleWhy CBT Can't Regulate Anxiety
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tells us that feelings are based on our thoughts. If we think right, we will feel right. Too bad it just isn't true.read more
View ArticleWhat Happens in Play Therapy?
Child therapy can seem mysterious to parents even when they know their child needs help. Parents often worry that the therapy itself might be a distressing experience or conceive of it as akin to what...
View ArticleAre You as Depressed as You Want to Be?
An example of a therapeutic exchange that models one way to help clients sort out what their feelings mean, how to accept those feelings, and what kinds of reactions might result in vicious neurotic...
View ArticlePosttraumatic Growth
Posttraumatic growth research shows that often people report positive benefits from their struggles with adversity. We cannot avoid adversity but we can learn to subvert suffering. read more
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