Will Baum, LCSW Psychotherapy

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  • Manufacturing Depression

    A long review/think piece in the New Yorker about therapy and psychiatry, including the view from Gary Greenberg’s book, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease: Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to…

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  • Adventure Therapy

    Skiing, pizza, and group–program for teens profiled in the Calgary Herald: There’s no texting on skis. No distractions. Just fresh air and the challenge of learning a new sport. So-called “bad kids” can leave their reputation behind at school and forge a better one in the outdoors. That’s the theory behind the Adventure Therapy program,…

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  • The Sex Addiction Divide

    The L.A. Times joins the Tiger Woods-triggered sex addiction journalism spree: Unlike compulsive gambling, which also is proposed for addition to the new DSM (to be called DSM-5), the proposed diagnosis — hypersexual disorder — stops short of categorizing the problem as an addiction, and for a reason. “If we are looking at a disorder, it’s…

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  • Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments

    From PsychCentral, a list of Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments.  Click around, help science, maybe have fun. At any given time, hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on. They are a great, cost-efficient method to gather experimental data from the multitudes of people online. These experiments can be fun to try, but also provide…

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  • Dealing with Chronic Pain

    A new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic…

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