Category: News
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Free CBT L.A.
Read more: Free CBT L.A.It’s that time again: the free CBT clinic at the Southern California Counseling Center runs from 2 to 6pm today, August 1st. My quick interview with clinic founder, John Tsilimparis, is here. [UPDATE: SCCC’s Free CBT Clinic no longer operating.]
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The New, New Dating
Read more: The New, New DatingNYT: The New Dating Tools: A Card and a Wink Move over, Match.com. This is the next generation of online dating. Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing autobiographies and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real-world romance.
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More Free CBT in L.A.
Read more: More Free CBT in L.A.This Sunday, July 11th, 2-6pm, at SCCC. From the Free CBT Clinic’s Facebook page: WHAT’S THE CATCH? There is none. This is a free service of The Southern California Counseling Center to the community for anyone who is interested in finding out what therapy is like or specifically what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is all about.…
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Survey: Talk Therapy Helps
Read more: Survey: Talk Therapy HelpsResults from a giant Consumer Reports mental health survey, reported earlier, have been posted. Here are the bullet points they came up with: Talk therapy helps Some drugs have an edge Anxiety rises [is on the rise, that is, since 2004] Side effects shift Type of therapist doesn’t matter Details on the site.
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Selling “Pink Viagra”
Read more: Selling “Pink Viagra”NYT Business article about the efforts to make and market a female sex pill. Regulators and doctors tend to be less tolerant of side effects in quality-of-life drugs than they are in medicines intended to mitigate life-and-death diseases. Some industry critics, meanwhile, contend that in the quest to find new and treatable quality-of-life problems,…