10 Ways to Make Memory Rehab Work
Yes, you really can improve your memory ability.read more
View ArticleHow To Fix A Clingy Relationship
Is someone you know too needy or demanding? Here's how relationships get clingy, and what you can do about it.read more
View ArticleHow to Be Highly Productive — 10 Tips to Master Your Time
Do you ever wish you had more time to do everything? Have you had days that were busy but inefficient? Would you like to be highly productive, feel accomplished at the end of each day, with even time...
View ArticleRefreshment from Freud's Faucet: A Birthday Salute to Siggie
On May 6, 2013, we mark Sigmund Freud's 157th birthday. Though much maligned today, for the most part unfairly so, Freud is the indisputable father of modern psychotherapy. And much of what he had to...
View ArticleIs Mad Men’s Don Draper a Sex Addict?
If living in today’s world, Don Draper may well wind up in rehab for “sex addiction” – but how can a rehab facility diagnose and treat someone with a disorder that's not recognized?read more
View ArticleDoes Psychotherapy Work?
How effective is psychotherapy, really? Though Sigmund Freud and his followers regularly published case histories describing how patients could be cured of their psychological problems through therapy,...
View ArticleAfter the DSM, What?
Given that the DSM is under fire and that we may be standing on the threshold of rethinking mental health, what might an agenda to rethink mental health look like?read more
View ArticleDoes NIMH Want to "Fail Better" than the DSM-5 Already Has?
A new paradigm for mental health won't come from the top. It can only be built through the struggles of patients and clinicians for a mental health system driven by quite different social...
View ArticleMy Approach to Psychotherapy
At the end of the semester in my psychotherapy course, I asked my students to develop an essay describing their theoretical approach and how it informs their work. This year, I decided to write one...
View ArticleGot an Anger Disorder? Not According to the DSM.
There's diagnostic categories in the DSM for anxiety disorders, and also for depression. Why not for anger? What a peculiar blind spot!read more
View ArticleParent-Child Reunification After Alienation
Never give up on reunification efforts...the primary response of the alienated parent must always be one of loving compassion, emotional availability, and absolute safety.read more
View ArticleCan The New Havening Technique Really Cure Trauma and Fear?
The Havening technique - the focus of a two-day seminar in London this weekend - involves a patient recalling a traumatic event and then being touched, supposedly disconnecting the memory from its...
View ArticleThe Perils of Perfectionism in Motherhood
Motherhood can bring out the perfectionist in all of us. Over the years, I have reflected in many conversations with my mother, my 3 sisters and numerous friends about how we raised our respective...
View ArticleWelcome to Bad Seed Blog
This post introduces my blog and lays out how I intend to use it.read more
View ArticleA Clinical Perspective on Panic and PTSD in Iron Man 3
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark suffers repeated panic attacks and numerous symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Are his problems indicative of any specific mental illness from a clinical...
View ArticleFamily Dynamics and Distress
The patterns of familial communication and dynamics are explored in regards to their impact on emotional distress.read more
View ArticleWhat Makes Therapy Therapeutic
Therapy can work, but how? What do you need to know?read more
View Article5 Reasons to be In Therapy
Therapy is capable of so many wonderful things, most of which need to be experienced to be rightly understood. Here, I attempt to bring some of the benefits of therapy to life. read more
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