Therapy Shows No Edge Over Psychiatry
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201612/depressed-teens-therapy-shows-no-edge-over-routine-care What treatments are helpful for depressed adolescents? A study released today gives a surprising answer: not psychotherapy, or at least not the best-defined forms, cognitive-behavioral therapy and brief psychoanalytic therapy. In a trial funded by the British National Institute for Health Research and conducted by researchers from Cambridge and other British universities, neither psychotherapy…
High cortisol levels during morning sessions provide more benefits to psychotherapy patients
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20161005/High-cortisol-levels-during-morning-sessions-provide-more-benefits-to-psychotherapy-patients.aspx Patients make more progress toward overcoming anxiety, fears and phobias when their therapy sessions are scheduled in the morning, new research suggests. The study found that morning sessions helped psychotherapy patients overcome their panic and anxiety and phobic avoidance better, in part, because levels of cortisol — a naturally occurring hormone — are at…
Israeli Male Inmates in Group Therapy
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.738928 For the past five months, seven prisoners clad in orange have been meeting weekly at the department for rehabilitation for drug addicts at the Hasharon prison. They are all victims of sexual assault and are participating in a pioneering support group called “trauma and recovery.” In prison they talk for the first time of…
Many patients once felt hopeless but were able to overcome their anguish
“I would never say that, over the long term, anyone is absolutely untreatable,” the sexual trauma counselor Dr. Yael Margolin-Rice told Broadly. “Certainly the symptoms can be absolutely insufferable, and the misery it causes can be unfathomable to anyone who has not experienced them.” Nevertheless, “people absolutely do recover” over years of therapy, she says….
‘Trump anxiety’ among US therapy clients
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/77620085/psychologists-and-massage-therapists-are-reporting-trump-anxiety-among-clients Whitney Royston, 30, a Republican who works as an event coordinator in Colorado, said the prospect of a Trump presidency scares her because “he’s a side show. He doesn’t have anything to say. All he does is tell other people to shut up. If he were to become president, I fear that our world…
Misuse of therapists position
http://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2016/02/pa_psychologist_who_used_touch.html TATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania psychologist who used “touching therapy” on two female sexual trauma patients will spend three to six years in prison. State prosecutors say the therapy really amounted to sexual abuse. Fifty-four-year-old Richard Lenhart, of State College, was sentenced Thursday in Centre County. He previously pleaded no contest…
Technology as therapy
http://betanews.com/2015/12/29/i-am-depressed-technology-is-my-lifeline/ I’ve always been quiet, prone to dips into the depths of gloominess but having been that way for as long as I can remember, it became easy to accept it as the norm — but things started to get too much for me. In the bleak spiral of blackness, the idea of picking up…
Art and Social Anxiety: Laurence Couchman
Laurence has a history of Social Anxiety, and credits his art with helping to overcome that… https://t.co/xZEEozekA4 — Kyle MacDonald (@kylemacd) November 8, 2015 Laurence is an untrained artist who, eighteen months ago, was deep in an abstract expressionist phase, enjoying the influence of greats from Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner to Robert Rauschenberg and…