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What If Your Therapist Had A Dog In The Office?
Written by: Dr. Theresa DePorterDogs may be trained to do jobs for people by guiding the blind, alerting a person who seizures, detecting illegal substances at the airport or even detecting bombs but...
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When Not Talking About Past Trauma is Wise
(“There is no tale of woe,” is a quote from the formerly abused Jane in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)When is it better not to tell your tale of woe? Here is a clinical story that illustrates this...
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Diet, Depression, and the Microbiome
Over the past ten years or so the research on how diet might influence resiliency to clinical depression has come a long way. The consensus of the data so far seems to be that consuming whole,...
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James Holmes: A Psychiatric Analysis
Can an individual be insane yet have the intelligence and the executive function needed to meticulously plan and execute a mass killing? Jury selection began recently for the murder trial of James...
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Are Your Smart Devices Causing You a Pain In the Neck
In little more than a decade, we have become high-tech beings, but evolution doesn’t happen that fast. Therefore, most of us get thrown off balance, physiologically compromised by a virtual lifestyle...
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Men’s Secret Revenge Against Successful Women
By Max Belkin, Ph.D.The glass ceiling is cracking. Hard-working, ambitious women are finally getting the recognition and compensation they have long deserved. For many couples, women’s growing social...
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Everything Old Is New Again
Have you ever spent your time and money attending an enjoyable professional training while simultaneously realizing that you probably didn't need to be there because much of what you were learning you...
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Part II: “Fix Society. Please!”
Introduction:The canaries of coal miners alerted them to bad air in the mines by dying before they did! Leelah Alcorn’s call to “fix society” is something worth thinking about; especially when we...
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Patient: Doc, every time I take a sip of coffee I get a pain in my right eye. What should I do?Doctor: Take the spoon out of the cup.This old joke offers a profound truth: Sometimes the obvious answer...
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Potential of Psilocybin in Mental Health Therapy
Potential of Psilocybin in Mental HealthTherapyOver the past 50 years, tens of millions of people have used entheogens, yet there just is not much scientific evidence on either positive or negative...
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Write Your Story, Improve Your Health
Write Your Story, Improve Your HealthStudies have shown that writing about yourself and your personal experiences can improve mood disorders, improve health after a heart attack, reduce doctor visits...
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What’s a Mad Map?
I’ve been privileged to work with one Boston hospital to better understand what patients and families need to know about advance directives, a record of a person’s wishes for care in the event of an...
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Especially in the Digital Age
Relationship Drama: Digitally EnhancedRelationship breakups and the angst surrounding them have always been solid psychotherapeutic fodder. As we’re all aware, these issues are challenging in and of...
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Is Porn The Most Prevalent Drug?
In a 2004 Wired magazine article about a Senate hearing on Internet pornography, Mary Anne Layden, co-director of Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center...
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Women Who Don't Orgasm
I saw an older rom-com last weekend titled: “Because I Said So” with Diane Keaton playing a neurotic mother trying to find a partner for her youngest still single daughter. While the movie is not one...
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Talking About Sex Addiction
The reason why sex addictiontherapy remains so controversial is due to the lack of agreement among clinicians. Professionally, it's not listed in the DSM-V and the closest variation is that of...
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PTSD Is Alive and Well, Unfortunately
Recently, Phil was interviewed by Lisa Cypers Kamen, host of the Harvesting Happiness Radio Show, a Los Angeles-based talk radio show with a large military following. Phil's interview focuses on the...
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Sexual Exploitation of Minors or Adolescents
This story is as real and accurate as can possibly be described. We will refer to the victim as Maria, although that is not her actual name.Maria, who is now eighteen years old, lived with her parents...
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ADHD Goes Global: But Why?
Medicalization and ADHDI recently came across a thought-provoking article by two Brandeis sociologists (Conrad & Bergey, 2014), arguing that ADHD has become a “medicalized” phenomenon of global...
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Don Jones: Make Art (Therapy), Not War
Many of my art therapy colleagues were sad to learn today that Don Jones, one of the founders of the profession, has died. Don’s life and work as an artist and art therapist have had a deep and...
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