Public Television Show on Depression

Here’s a small part of depression introspection’s reaction to the recently aired public television show “Depression: Out of the Shadows”. Overall, I’d say her reaction to the show was that it was a “depression 101″ exercise, and not that focussed. It did plug talk therapy, though.
My jaw nearly dropped to the carpet as Andrew Solomon, [...]

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Charles Brenner Dead

Interesting piece on Charles Brenner, known to some as the “dean of psychoanalysis“.
In a break from strict orthodoxy, Dr. Brenner argued that Freud’s concepts of the ego, the id, and the superego were just that, concepts, and that the engine of human motivation was more like a psychological calculator, continuously computing ratios of pleasure versus [...]

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Discriminating Among Anxiety Disorders

An automatically generated link led me to a very nice old post at We Worry: A Blog for the Anxious about discriminating between anxiety disorders. Apparently weworry.com received some accolades last year (see the website), so you might want to check it out, particularly if you have questions about anxiety. For instance, If you click [...]

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What Does A Panic Attack Feel Like?

Well, at PANIC!, there’s an excellent first-person account titled: “My first panic attack”. The piece does a nice job of describing how a mundane moment is exploded by total panic. In fact, if you’re interested in the subjective experience of panic disorder, you’ll find post after post of well written descriptions of and musings on [...]

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