Jason Becker Is the Beating Heart of Rock Music
Jason Becker is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time. What he has done since he developed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is as impressive and inspirational as any of his...
View ArticleWhat Is Madness?
A new free report on understanding psychosis and schizophrenia available from the Division of Clinical Psychology of the British Psychological Societyread more
View ArticleWhy Holiday Traditions May Matter More than Ever
Being mindful of the importance of holiday traditions and how they provide organizing, centering, and consoling benefits may help us to respect the wishes of important others and find ways to make the...
View ArticleObamacare's Mental Health and Addiction Benefits
When the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, lurched into existence last year, it brought with it political rancor and confusion. But it also brought promise, especially for a group...
View ArticleAnswers to Addiction Questions
You spoke up and here are the answers you deserve to have.read more
View ArticleThe Power of Befriending Our Feelings
This article offers a path to develop a skillful relationship with the full range of our feelings as they arise in the moment. This is a middle path between avoiding our feelings and fueling them. The...
View ArticleEnough Is Enough Series #3: A Hallucinogen for Depression?
Now we have the false promise that the hallucinogen Ketamine, street name - Special K - raises hope as a treatment for depression. This tells us how far afield, my field, psychiatry has really gone -...
View ArticleA Non-Pathologizing Approach to Emotional Trauma
When we dwell with others’ unendurable pain, their shattered emotional worlds are enabled to shine with a kind of sacredness that calls forth an understanding and caring engagement within which...
View ArticlePsychologists’ Involvement in Torture and the APA
Mitchell and Jessen, owners of a Washington based consulting firm contracted with the CIA for $181 million to conduct "enhanced interrogations."read more
View ArticleWhy Breaking Up is So Hard to Do
T’s the season to be jolly. Yet many of us are not exactly jolly; rather, many of us are feeling sad. Indeed, this may be the season for separating from an unsatisfactory relationship. The end of the...
View ArticleUniversities Gone Mad!
Institutional madness of universities poses a long-term threat to the health of American society...and where America goes, the rest of the West follows.read more
View ArticleWhy You Should Learn and Practice Yoga
Yoga is a balanced practice of physical exercise, breathing control and meditation that can reduce psychosocial distress as well as improve cardiovascular and cognitive function. Yoga may prove to be a...
View ArticleWho Owns Your Body?
Much child development can be usefully construed as a transfer of ownership rights from others to the individual.read more
View ArticleWhy Do Some Therapists Take Notes In Session?
The notepad is as much a part of the lore of therapy as the clock, the couch, and the bottomless box of Kleenex. But is it really necessary?read more
View ArticleNavigating Grief and Loss as an Autistic Adult
It’s the holiday season...a time for reflection, togetherness, and joy, so they say. As I’ve written before, it hasn’t always been that way for me. This holiday season has been an especially difficult...
View ArticleWhen Your Loved One Struggles with Mental Illness
When people in our lives do things that don’t make sense it can leave us confused, hurt, and alone. Mental illness affects not just the patient, but loved ones as well. Sometimes there are no easy...
View ArticleMyth Busting the Not Criminally Responsible Defense
Psychiatrist Robert Dickey helps the Trauma & Mental Health Report gain a better understanding of NCR and bust some of the myths surrounding the defense.read more
View ArticleWere You Born Sad?
What is the relationship between original personality and chronic sadness?read more
View ArticleRemembering Your Therapy Session
You say goodbye and step out into the world. But by the time your key hits the ignition, it's gone.read more
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