Stress: It’s Not All in Your Head
Imagine how your life would change if you had a trusty ally that pointed you in the right direction when making decisions. read more
View ArticleTo Go There, or Not to Go There: "No Race Talk" in the U.S.
The rule "No Race Talk" is manifested at work, school, intimate relationships and therapy by what does not get discussed.read more
View ArticleCan Computers Help You Quit?
We use computers and smartphones to stay in touch with each other, buy things and conduct serious business. Can they also help us with drug and alcohol problems?read more
View ArticleShooting Electricity Into Your Brain
Medical science has a 2,000 year history of shooting electricity into the brains of sick people. Here's ten fun facts about that...read more
View ArticleCan a White Person Understand the Black Experience?
If you are a White person in America, it can be hard to imagine that your neighbor, coworker, or friend of color could be living a completely different experience. Why is it so hard to ask the...
View ArticleWhen Patients Pass Gas
Therapists rarely talk frankly, about dealing with being human in therapy. We all have bodies, which produce "impolite" noises, smells and distractions. Therapeutically addressing such issues can be...
View ArticleHow Should Mental Problems be Diagnosed?
The National Institute of Mental Health has a new approach to thinking about research into mental illness. There is hope that this will lead to more effective treatments and a better diagnostic system...
View ArticleThomas Szasz, M.D.: A Profile by Dr. Lloyd Sederer
Some of the last century's greatest psychiatrists frequently argued with him. They would claim he was wrong, but brilliant.read more
View Article12 Keys to a Mental Health Revolution
The way that we think about mental health and the way that we provide mental health services need changing. A revolution is needed, especially for the sake of our children, so that they are spared the...
View ArticleThe Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in One's Child or Adolescent
There exists a dilemma in coping with the possible diagnosis of schizophrenia in one's child or adolescent. Labeling and pathologizing one's child is dialectically opposed to obtaining a diagnosis...
View ArticleOn Being A Burden
Today the focus is on the long-term effects of a child internalizing the belief that he or she is a burden – and how it can then feed into a pattern of being an Outsider in adulthood. It can be helpful...
View ArticleTherapy in Prison: Where Legal, Ethics, and Morals Collide
In prison, therapists may find themselves in the crossroads where legal issues, ethical considerations and moral ramifications intersect and sometimes collide with another. This post explores a...
View ArticleSexual Anorexia – The Shadow Addiction
While the concept of sexual addiction is well-known, the compulsive avoidance of sexual and relational intimacy can be equally devastating.read more
View ArticleA Novel View of Grieving as Reflected on The Leftovers
Trauma and loss causes us to lose ourselves. Healing involves finding the right relationships that can help us deal with trauma and loss. Those who are grieving need people to help restore their...
View ArticleWhy We Lost a Lovable Genius:The Hidden Enemy in Suicide
People who attempt or die by suicide are NOT on their own side or in their own point of view in the moment they try to take their own life. They are listening to a vicious internal enemy or...
View ArticleIntroverts in Therapy
F. Diane Barth, L.C.S.W. talks about how recognizing their introversion helps her clients make progress in therapy.read more
View Article5 Problems Music Can Create
As Uncle Ben counseled Peter Parker, "With great power comes great responsibility." The same can said for music. It wields an incredible power over our minds, bodies, and emotions. At the same time,...
View ArticleIs What You Are Feeling A Flashback?
New research indicates that past trauma can cause a stress response even when no memory of the traumatic experience is present. It also suggests that therapists need to recognize that stress can be...
View ArticleI’m Feeling It
Although prior research has not unequivocally specified these pathways at the anatomical level, some evidence, both theoretical and empirical, suggest that emotional reactions influence the experience...
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