Posted in human problems, psychotherapy on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s what they call the end of psychotherapy. Chanced upon, at intueri, a very thoughtful post by a psychiatry resident on what termination is like. Intueri: to contemplate. Here’s a brief excerpt:
Termination sounds like a single, discrete event. It is rather a process, an unfolding sequence. In psychotherapy, the general guideline is to begin to [...]
Posted in Big Pharma, Freud, PTSD, brain and behavior, cognitive-behavior therapy, human problems, medical model, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology in the media, psychotherapy, psychotropic drugs, science and psychology on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
From Biological Psychiatry to Aplysia californica. Recently read Charles Barber’s Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, a book noted elsewhere on this blog. It’s a compelling read that covers a lot of ground — the rise of Big Pharma and what he calls “The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry” (a history of how psychiatry [...]
Posted in diagnosis, human problems, medical model, psychiatry, psychology on the internet, psychotherapy, schizophrenia on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The all powerful receptor. Harold Maio quotes one participant’s part of the New York Times Freakonomics piece on the progress of psychology and psychiatry:
“It works by binding to certain receptors in the brain, and if you give it to “schizophrenics,” many of them stop their otherwise full-blown hallucinations.” Until the practice of referencing people as [...]
Posted in blogging, depression, human problems, psychology on the internet on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s the first few paragraphs from the Walking The Black Dog blog. I think it says some interesting things about what it means to be depressed, as well as explaining the whole “black dog” thing.
Welcome to the land of the blues or more accurately - something more than the blues. Depression isn’t just a case [...]
Posted in analytic psychotherapy, human problems, procedures, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, psychotherapy, questions on March 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is a difficult question to answer. Here’s a bare bones answer:
Psychotherapy is a conversation between two people — where one person predominantly talks and the other predominantly listens. The goal of the conversation that develops is to foster insight into the nature of the person doing most of the talking, as well as insight [...]
Posted in analytic psychotherapy, human problems, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, psychology in the media, schizophrenia on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Yale Daily News ran a February 29 story on Elyn Saks whose recent memoir The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. Time magazine voted it one of the top ten best non-fiction books of 2007. One of the interesting aspects of the story is Saks’ crediting of her psychoanalysis as being critical to [...]
Posted in Psychology Websites, human problems, psychology on the internet, public interest, social psychology on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
And what is a blog for that matter??
A blog is short for web log. It is a forum for people to do a variety of things — anything from keeping a journal, logging their financial woes, taking photos of their cats, publishing their fitness progress — you get the general idea. But this really doesn’t [...]
Posted in choose a therapist, human problems, importance of fit, medical model, primary care, procedures, psychology in the media, research on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Importance of a “good fit”.
Today the New York Times is running a piece on psychotherapy by a psychiatrist. It’s not as bad as the usual Times articles on this topic. The headline is good, emphasizing the importance of a “good fit” in the relationship between one and one’s therapist. This is critical.
And it speaks to [...]
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