Part II. In this installment, I will review the costs of BetterHelp and some of the other legal/ethical issues that they are currently facing.
Part I. This blog is a two-part series where I walk the reader through the process of signing up for and receiving services through the mental health platform, BetterHelp.com. I will give you some background about why I did this, as well elaborate about some of the pros and cons that I noticed during my experience. Other legal and ethical issues will be explored in Part II.
By Tina Bjarnskov Cand. Psyk. Aut. ISTDP is short for Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Like all psychodynamic approaches it emphasizes unconscious psychological processes (for example, feelings and fears of which we’re not fully aware) and contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality and behavior. The experiences we had with our primary caregivers are of special importance in this model. How did we learn to behave and how did we learn to deal with our needs and…
by Veronika Leonova, MA Narcissism, narcissist, – we hear these terms everywhere, and amount of posts about narcissism on different social media platforms is constantly growing. In these posts narcissists are usually described as manipulative, cold and abusive, and the focus is placed on how to identify and avoid them or if that mission has failed – how to recover from a relationship with them. This social media trend makes one think that we are surrounded by “them”: lurking unrecognised…
Intern Christine Serritslev explores the mental health benefits of reading Imagine this: It’s raining, and you can hear the wind howling outside. You’re snuggled up in your favorite comfy chair wrapped in a blanket with a freshly brewed cup of tea at your side, ready to turn the first page of the newest crime book, you’ve been wanting to read for ages. Add a few candles and it’s as close as you can get to the almost notorious concept of…
by Jeanette Galan Mogensen, intern, The Little White House Psychotherapy is a relatively new practice that has only really been around as a scientific discipline for the last century. That’s not a long time, when you consider how long the practice of medicine has been around (some 40 centuries). A common way of perceiving psychotherapy is as a means of symptom alleviation; if one feels sad, one takes the talking cure to “get fixed”—the same way, one sees a doctor…
By our intern Thea Haldorsen The Framework Agreement Plan for Reopening of Denmark was introduced to the public on April 15th [1]. For the first time since the pandemic broke out we can see light at the end of the tunnel. In just a few months we will be able to hug, have big dinner parties, and stand way too closely to strangers on the dance floor. That is, if the vaccination roll-out goes according to plan. It has been…
by Debbie Quackenbush, Ph.D. Several years ago, I started noticing that zoo animals had seemingly random objects in their enclosures. I recall asking a zoo employee about them and was informed that even animals get bored and have ill effects from under stimulation. Putting toys and novel objects in their cages was a way to prevent them from becoming depressed. Of course, it makes perfect sense, on reflection, that an animal in ten square meters of space would become bored…
by Veronika Leonova, M.A. What is Jungian Psychotherapy? Jungian psychotherapy is based on the works of a Swiss psychiatrist, C. G. Jung. It is a form of depth psychotherapy that is distinguished by a focus on the symbolic experiences in one’s life. The issues and problems a client comes with are examined both in terms of their own life story and from the archetypal perspective. Archetypes – one of the particular insight of C.G. Jung – are overarching themes, motives…
A former Little White House intern writes about his experience in isolation due to COVID exposure by Eivind Hamarheim Johnsen By the first 2-3 weeks of March this year, the sars-CoV-2 virus (coronavirus) developed into a pandemic and caused the majority of countries worldwide to a lockdown. The societal effects of the lockdown were enormous and will most likely affect the world economy long-term additionally to short-term, as already widely known.[1] The pandemic outbreak has additionally exposed and exacerbated weaknesses…
by Heidrun Hoppe When I was a young Psychology student there was one new word I got to learn before many others. Procrastination. I remember sitting in one of those first lectures, along with a bunch of newly enrolled young students, eyes sparkling with motivation, while my statistics professor introduced us to a phenomenon we would soon experience ourselves. Only few mental health issues are downplayed as much as procrastination, which might be an explanation for why it is so…
by Alex Shrimpton You are what you eat and what you eat matters! We hear that all the time but what effect our eating choices have on our mental health can be somewhat misleading as it is difficult to consider a universally healthy diet taking into account cultural factors, historical trends and a wide variety of research and different beliefs on the matter. Several systematic reviews have shown that a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and…
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