Trauma
Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical. Longer term reactions include unpredictable...
View ArticleIs Your Committed Relationship in a Rut?
Couples can get into a rut and focus more on the “how” and the “what” that they lose sight of the “who” and the “why.” Remember who the person is and why you married them, or stayed in a committed...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Loneliness: Alienation in a Linked Up Age
Feeling alone or lonely? Join the club. read more
View ArticleDisordered Eating or Eating Disorder: What’s the Difference?
Disordered Eating or Eating Disorder: What’s the Difference? More subtle forms of disordered eating can also be dangerous. It’s pretty easy to diagnose a full-blown eating disorder like Anorexia or...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Believe Reports of a Mental Health Crisis
Mental health services promise us a life without emotional pain. It's not surprising that so many people are lured by this promise. But emotional self-regulation is a learned skill. Services can help...
View ArticleLife Coaches and Mental Illness
Life coaching is a developing field where paraprofessionals offer support and guidance to people trying to achieve change in their life. This can be very positive, but there are risks that coaches may...
View ArticleEdith Kramer: Art (Therapy) Tells the Truth
For art therapy icon Edith Kramer “art tells the truth.” Her death marks the end of an era in the field of art therapy, but it is her truth that will always remind me that art and the creative process...
View ArticleReflections on Geel: Schizophrenia Is Not a Medical Disease
Reflections on “The Geel question: For centuries, a little Belgian town has treated the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?” by Mike Jay depicts a caring, human environment where...
View ArticleWhen Mice Are Men and When They're Just Mice
Sometimes rats make useful models for humans, but not for addiction. We're very different from rats.read more
View ArticleMusic Therapy for our Soldiers
The history of the music therapy profession is rooted in military service. Nearly 65 years later we have come full circle as the American Music Therapy Association is set to unveil a white paper titled...
View ArticleWait, What? Shut Up!
Has this happened to you? You absolutely, positively believe something is true. And then - Wham! Ouch! Your feet fly into the air and you land on your rear as the rug is pulled out from under you when...
View ArticleMy New Getting-To-Know-Us Game
We're united by the dilemmas we face, choices like the one the Serenity Prayer captures so beautifully. Here's a game for getting at the ties that bind us, both circumstantially and to each other.read...
View ArticleHappiness With Others 4: Don't Be Needy
Self-doubt, insecurity, and neediness can not only destroy happiness in and of themselves, but they can make a person unattractive to others, thereby creating a never-ending, happiness-destroying...
View ArticleTherapy Thru the Magnifying Glass of Sherlock Holmes
Part One opened with: “Psychotherapy is not unlike forensic science in uncovering the clues that have not allowed you to live your potential—which is a crime.” Today’s blog is focused on a “crime of a...
View ArticleWhy CBT Doesn't Stop Anxiety
Can we extend CBT to include right brain logic? If we can expand our understand and our practice of CBT, we may be able to use it to treat right hemisphere anxiety.read more
View ArticleA Tribute to Sex Addicts Who Were Abused as Children
Why should we care about sex addicts?read more
View ArticleLearning to Control Pain
A new review looks at the soaring social and economic costs of chronic pain and the development of psychological treatments that can help pain sufferers to manage their symptoms. Is that a new era in...
View ArticleWhat's Good About Feeling Bad?
Pushing past grief is not the same thing as moving through it.read more
View ArticleExcessive Daytime Sleepiness Makes Sleep Debt Feel Chronic
When does feeling tired during the day become a sign of a significant underlying problem? And what are the treatment options?read more
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