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How Stress Can Make Therapy Sessions More Effective
Therapy is all about learning how to cope and manage difficult situations better, but sessions may not always equip patients with the practical tools they need to face challenges when they occur.
The Trouble With Talk Therapy
“What brand is your therapist?” Exploring the latest marketing trend among psychotherapists.
6 Breathing Exercises to Relax in 10 Minutes or Less
Overworked, underslept and feeling the pressure? There are plenty of ways to find calm, without investing in a four-hand spa massage. All you need is a pair of lungs, your breath and 10 minutes or less.
8 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
As the days get shorter and winter closes in, many people feel like hibernating. We start sleeping more, eating more and avoiding social contact. The effects can be particularly oppressive for people with depression, many of whom feel escalating dread as the end of daylight saving time approaches. Here are eight ways to keep the black …
Q&A: A Yale Psychologist Calls for Radical Change in Therapy
(Updated) Is individual therapy overrated and outdated? In many ways, says Alan Kazdin, a professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale University, writing in the leading journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Video: Ballet’s Emphasis on Repetition Helps Autistic Kids
This week, TIME Video features the dance program Ballet for All Kids, which was created for children on the autism spectrum. “A lot of these kids with autism, they’re trying to communicate something and they have all this stuff …
Tending to Japan’s Psychological Scars: What Hurts, What Helps
Even seen on tiny screens from thousands of miles away, the images of destruction in Japan are devastating. The emotional aftermath seems unimaginable, and yet once the immediate crisis is over, the survivors will certainly be …
Do We Really Need Psychiatrists to Do Therapy?
In a front page story headlined “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy,” the New York Times Saturday bemoaned the fact that most psychiatrists now focus on prescribing medications, not practicing psychotherapy.
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Pregnant Women with Breast Cancer Should Do Chemo
Sheila Reigner was 26 weeks pregnant when she found out she had breast cancer. “You are going to die within six months if you don’t do chemo,” she remembers the doctors saying.
Rapid Antidepressants? Perception Changes Fast; Mood, Not So Much
Do antidepressants actually start to work immediately? Although people with depression don’t usually feel better right away, a fascinating new study suggests that these medications change the way people see the world within hours, not the two to six weeks that patients typically must wait before they sense that their mood has lifted. …
Psychologists discredit therapies designed to turn gays straight
The American Psychological Association has agreed that mental-health workers should not tell patients they can change their sexual orientation. An Association task force reviewed extensive research literature on the subject and found no good evidence that “reparative therapy” — therapy to turn gays and lesbians straight — can …