Posted in psychology in the media, self help on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From the self-help section. I’m pretty wary of the self-help section, particularly in bookstores. It’s a huge industry, the selling of self-help books, and I’m not sure how many of them help people, since they keep publishing them in the thousands. Wouldn’t they just stop publishing them soon, if they worked? It just seems a [...]
Posted in psychology in the media on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s part of a notion from Barry Magid’s new book about Zen (and to a lesser degree psychoanalysis) — that psychoanalysts are like the Amish of psychotherapists. It seems like such an apt comparison. They work in ways that others find odd and antiquated. They are a small and insular community. They persist.
I’ve put off [...]
Posted in Big Pharma, psychotropic drugs on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Everyone Needs Therapy (April 6) has an interesting post commenting on a Wall Street Journal article on, you guessed it, sleeping pills. Not surprisingly, they can have some unintended effects. Since the usual suspects here are SSRIs and atypical antipsychotics — here’s a look at sleeping pills. More fun from Big Pharma.
Kalea Chapman, Psy.D.
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