Psychotherapy

Counting My People

Helen Davey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books


Helen Davey

An Autobiographical Book Review of Robert D. Stolorow's Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.

Psychology Holy Wars

Dr. John Grohol | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living


Dr. John Grohol

Let's say you're in the minority of people who actually seek out the help of a mental health professional. Who do you turn to?

The Ethics of Insight

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


Carol Smaldino

Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.

Shut Up and Listen! And That Means All of Us!

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Carol Smaldino

If we don't create a climate of communication, of listening and translation, there will be no health care reform.

Yoga Therapy Integrates The Mind And Body

Times Online | Claire Coleman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living


For years, yoga devotees have been telling us that bending and twisting our limbs into gravity-defying contortions is a great way to develop the perfe...

Stop Positive Thinking, Study Says

TIME | John Cloud | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living


In the past 50 years, people with mental problems have spent untold millions of hours in therapists' offices, and millions more reading self-help book...

What's Your Favorite Method of Nature-Connection?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living


Linda Buzzell

Research has shown that nature-connection of almost any kind turns out to be a powerful healing force.

7 Ways To Stay Out 0f The Psych Ward

Therese Borchard | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living


Therese Borchard

It's been three years since I've dined in the community room of a psych ward with some fellow depressives...trying to slice a piece of rubber turkey w...

When Depression is Treated as a Disease

James S. Gordon | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living


James S. Gordon

Acting on our own behalf, working in concert with physicians and therapists who value our efforts, we can overcome the helplessness and hopelessness that are the hallmarks of depression.

Psychotherapy Goes To The Mat

TIME | Alana B. Elias Kornfeld | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living


Talk. Share. Cry. Stretch? Psychotherapy has historically been an exercise of the mind, but in the offices of more and more modern-day mental-health p...

What Europe Really Needs is a Good Shrink

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.04.2009 | World


Nathan Hegedus

Europe needs to make some huge psychological leap. I am living in Sweden and honestly, President Obama seems to care more about me than any of the big European leaders.

Bill Cosby Forgot Mental Illness

Pius Kamau | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living


Pius Kamau

Two taboo subjects exist for black Americans: male gay sex and mental illness. The refusal to discuss them has had devastating results.

12 Things I Learned from My Therapist

Therese Borchard | Posted 04.23.2009 | Living


Therese Borchard

I've spent more time in therapy than I care to think about. More hours on that bloody couch than I've spent in the shower, brushing my teeth, or on th...

Facing Your Fears

Nicole Williams | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living


Nicole Williams

Your fears are uniquely yours and yours alone (I'm not sure if that's good news or bad) and there are thousands of possibilities of what you might be afraid of.

Greening Your Therapy Experience

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living


Dr. Tian Dayton

When we "know too much" and "do too little" discouragement follows.

Anger and Your Inner Warrior

Natalia Rose | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living


Natalia Rose

Anger is the desire to protect. It is not some dark, evil emotion that we should shun. Yet, when we suppress it, anger waits for an opportunity to express itself out of its original context.

The Way I See It- Let's Make PTSD a Household Name.

Colleen Perry | Posted 01.07.2009 | Living


Colleen Perry

I can tell you from personal experience that the symptoms of PTSD affect not only the soldier, but their their family and friends. After his return from Panama, my brother was never the same.

Lost Common Sense about Depression: Relationships

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 09.13.2008 | Living


Bruce E. Levine

While psychotherapy may not help all depressed people, the loss of psychiatrists practicing psychotherapy means the loss of basic common sense in psychiatry about depression.

Meditation: The New Psychotherapy

New York Times | Benedict Carey | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living


The patient sat with his eyes closed, submerged in the rhythm of his own breathing, and after a while noticed that he was thinking about his troubled ...

How to Choose a Good Therapist

Joyce McFadden | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Joyce McFadden

Finding a therapist is like dating. You want to feel like you click, and you want to feel like you want to see them again.