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An Autobiographical Book Review of Robert D. Stolorow's Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.
Dr. John Grohol | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living
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?
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
If we don't create a climate of communication, of listening and translation, there will be no health care reform.
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...
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...
Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
Research has shown that nature-connection of almost any kind turns out to be a powerful healing force.
Therese Borchard | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
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...
James S. Gordon | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living
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.
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...
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
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.
Pius Kamau | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
Two taboo subjects exist for black Americans: male gay sex and mental illness. The refusal to discuss them has had devastating results.
Therese Borchard | Posted 04.23.2009 | Living
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...
Nicole Williams | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
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.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living
When we "know too much" and "do too little" discouragement follows.
Natalia Rose | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
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.
Colleen Perry | Posted 01.07.2009 | Living
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.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 09.13.2008 | Living
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.
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 ...
Joyce McFadden | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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.
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Helen Davey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books