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Do Brain Games Build Cognitive Muscle?
Grim Job Prospects for Mental Health GradBrain games and grad prospects Read more
Therapists’ Perspectives on the Woody Allen Allegations Read more
Psychotherapy and the Affordable Care Act
Ecstasy in the Consulting RoomThroughout the fall, news about the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA), designed to extend healthcare coverage to millions of the country’s currently... Read more
Psychotherapy vs. Placebos
Frontline PsychotherapyGarry Cooper and Kathleen Smith Read more
How to Help Learning Stick for Clients
What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Psychotherapy?It’s usually easy to see when clients are tuned out or turned off, simply not absorbing what you’re trying to get across. What’s puzzling is when things... Read more
Unless DSM more firmly joins the march toward biological psychiatry, it’s going to be left behind by NIMH. Read more
Currently, there are between 100 and 150 smartphone apps designed to supplement—and occasionally even replace—face-to-face psychotherapy. In fact, the... Read more
An alarming number of children and adolescents who walk into a psychiatrist’s office in the United States each year walk out with prescriptions for powerful... Read more
Wonder if Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man ever needed couples therapy? What might a family therapist say about the sibling rivalry of the Super Mario Bros? It’s time... Read more
While the “empty chair” was once identified as a popular Gestalt therapy technique, for many therapists today, faced with empty appointment hours... Read more
What if you could predict how well a client would respond to psychotherapy? What if a simple test could tell you whether a patient needed psychodynamic therapy... Read more
The American Psychiatric Association is scheduled to publish the much-delayed fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) by May 2013. With... Read more
Do childhood trauma and a chaotic family environment cause adult borderline personality disorder (BPD)? Common clinical wisdom says yes, but new results are... Read more
With nearly eight million Americans affected by the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and tens of thousands of troops returning from military... Read more
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo knows a thing or two about tough guys. In 1971, his notorious Stanford prison experiment, originally planned for two weeks, had to... Read more
Imagine a world populated by college undergraduates. A world filled with binge drinkers and sleep-deprived procrastinators tweeting their sexual exploits to... Read more
- Mental health systems under stress - The timing of trauma treatment - The revolt against DSM-5 Read more
- Chilean miners' long-term trauma - Training good therapists - The question of bullying Read more
On Being Sane in Insane Places
Retracing David Ronsenhan's Journeyin 1972, David Rosenhan shook the foundations of psychiatry with a classic experiment that stunningly demonstrated how the world is always warped by the lens... Read more
New Science for Psychotherapy
Can we predict how therapy will progress?Psychologists Robert-Jay Green and Paul D. Werner of the California School of Professional Psychology insist that family therapists who don't rethink their... Read more