ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Counselling and psychotherapy should be routinely provided to people with mental illness, instead of being seen as an extra option, Schizophrenia Ireland said this morning as it launched its national schizophrenia awareness week.
The Hollywood Gossip (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Guess he has a history of being brainwashed. Several friends of New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez say estranged wife Cynthia Rodriguez "brainwashed him," the New York Daily News reports. "Alex has always been into psychotherapy, looking for ways to make himself mentally stronger ," a longtime confidante told the paper. " Cynthia Rodriguez has a master's degree in psychology. Once she found out...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It's there in Pineapple Express, about a pothead and his dealer on the run from hit men, and front-and-center in The Wackness, which has a teen dealer in 1994 NYC becoming chummy with a client who trades him psychotherapy for...
Corpus Callosum (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Many years ago, I was browsing thought the Borders bookstore, one of the earliers ones, on State Street in Ann Arbor, and encountered a book about psychotherapy. It claimed to be a sort of encyclopedia of named styles of psychotherapy. I can't recall the number of them, but I think it was between 300 and 400. That was 20 years ago. I'm sure it is in the thousenads by now. Of course most of these are...
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Psychologist Bill Richards studies the medical potential of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin , the active ingredient in 'magic mushrooms'. He's part of the research team at the respected Johns Hopkins Medical School who are studying whether psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy can help people with cancer cope with the psychological impact of their condition. The project is a hot topic at the moment,...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Nancy Irwin was in her early 40s when she changed her career from stand-up comedy to psychotherapy. Having made such a dramatic turnaround, she thought to herself, "If I can do it, anybody can."
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Nancy Irwin was in her early 40s when she changed her career from stand-up comedy to psychotherapy. Having made such a dramatic turnaround, she thought to herself, "If I can do it, anybody can."
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics The news this week that Labour's new general secretary, Ray Collins, is taking on Derek Draper as a part-time adviser came as something of a surprise. Revealing in a New Statesman article in 2004 that he was setting up a psychotherapy practice, Draper - who had been embroiled in the 1998 "Cash for Access" affair - wrote: "If I make a success of it and build a stable pr...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I see in The Guardian that "Derek Draper, the former New Labour lobbyist who became a psychotherapist, is to be the first appointment by Labour's general secretary, Ray Collins, to help revive the party's fortunes. Draper, whose psychotherapy website describes him as "experienced at treating emotional and psychological issues including: self-esteem, personal development, depression, anxiety, addictions,...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Medication combined with counseling or psychotherapy offer path to recovery, expert says.
MIT World » Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Michael Davis Few scientists have charted the grim territory of fear and anxiety with the same doggedness and precision as Michael Davis. Nearly four decades ago, researchers learned that animals, including humans, startle more when fearful. A sudden noise in a dark, creepy alley provokes a greater reaction than in a well-lit room, for instance. That got Davis and his colleagues wondering what neural...
Dadny crocodile =) (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Generous, civic-minded adults from diverse backgrounds tell life stories with very similar and telling features, studies find; so likewise do people who have overcome mental distress through psychotherapy. Hi Ron; Ron our specially designed replics look exactly like their highly expensive brand prototypes. Sometimes even the professional aren't able to tell the difference from the real one! http://u.querywookay.com...
Dorf on Law (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
In the heyday of psychotherapy, Hollywood films often portrayed psychoanalysts as miracle workers. Think of Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock’s Spellbound , for example. But recently, Hollywood has more often offered contemptuous views of therapists. Think here of Woody Allen as Zelig, rushing off to teach his class in “advanced masturbation.” Among its many charms, “The Sopranos” was notable as a recent...
Follow Me Here... (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
I was pointed to this New York Times article on the pitfalls of psychotherapy with the superrich from kottke. As a psychiatrist myself (who never, alas, treats the superrich), I was interested by the number of notable psychiatrists who seem to be making it their niche. True, treating the superrich overlaps with the issues, long considered very challenging in psychotherapy, of treating the very narcissistic....
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
July 10, 2008 By RUTH SOLOMON rsolomon@pioneerlocal.com Wilmette social worker Michael Callans kept his day job when he started his on-line counseling service, Psychology.com, back in 1994 when use of the Internet had not yet exploded. But this past year, business in Psychology.com has grown to the point that he has now left his job as president of Wonderlic Consulting, a Northfield human
