Tag: therapy
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Mind Over Meds
Read more: Mind Over MedsMind Over Meds or “how I decided my psychiatry patients needed more from me than prescriptions”–a psychiatrist’s story, from the NYT Magazine. [L]earning the formal techniques of therapy was like navigating without a compass. While I learned how to form an alliance with my patients and begin a good dialogue, becoming a skillful therapist requires…
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Los Angeles Therapist
Read more: Los Angeles TherapistLooking for a therapist in Los Angeles? Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life in the city, finding the right therapist can make all the difference. Centrally Located in Los Feliz I’m an LCSW with an office conveniently located on Hillhurst Ave, at the foot of Griffith Park,…
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Online CBT for Panic and Depression
Read more: Online CBT for Panic and DepressionA doctoral thesis out of Stockholm gives a boost to the growing practice of online therapy.
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The Depression Debate
Read more: The Depression DebateA while back, I linked to Louis Menand’s big New Yorker article about the history of depression treatment. Didn’t read it? Here’s a conversation about the piece–The Depression Debate–in a podcast from the magazine’s website. Meds, placebos, Freud, CBT, and depression itself all come under the microscope.
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Self-Defeating Behavior
Read more: Self-Defeating BehaviorPsychiatrist Richard Friedman, MD, writing about on self-defeating behavior in the NYT, confronts a client with a long pattern of not-so-coincidental-seeming disappointments: “Do you ever wonder why so many disappointing things happen to you?” I asked. “Is it just chance, or might you have something to do with it?” His reply was a resentful question:…