Coping with the sexual side effects of antidepressant medication

I remember when Prozac first came out, in the late 1980s. It was marketed as a kind of miracle cure for depression, and was considered a preferable alternative to the then MAO-inhibitors and Tricyclics that were being prescribed at the time. Prozac was marketed as having almost no side-effects, which was in stark contrast to […]

Another article about authentic self

Several famous psychologists have written about the existence of an ‘authentic self’. Notably, Carl Rogers used this term as marker for when one has achieved psychological health. Donald Winnicott also spoke of the ‘true self/false self’ dilemma. He believed that ‘true self’ actually produces a feeling for people– a sense of rightness, or ‘this is […]

Predicting suicidality using technology

For a long time, researchers knocked Freud’s idea of the unconscious because it could not be ‘proven’. However, today, technology makes it possibly for us to quantifiably measure response time to certain associations as a way to determine biases about which a person might not be 100 percent conscious. A test has been created to […]

When OCD takes a sexual form

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, commonly known as OCD, can be extremely debilitating. About two percent of adults suffer from this disorder. In popular media and culture, OCD is often represented as manifesting itself as excessive hand-washing and concern with tidiness. However, it can also manifest itself in other ways, as is demonstrated in this article and video. […]

New Evidence suggests that Freudian-style Dynamic Psychotherapy is more effective than CBT

For those of you who are interested in therapy-outcomes research, there is some new information about the effectiveness of dynamic psychotherapy versus cognitive behavioral therapy. I was really encouraged by this article since I tend to practice a mix of the two. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars-revenge-of-freud-cognitive-behavioural-therapy

Fighting every day Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Did you know that getting a song stuck in one’s head is one of the most common symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Here’s some practical advice, from the research, for getting that tune out of your head? A number of Beatles songs have been shown to be among the most annoyingly easy to become obsessive about. […]

How is trauma passed down through the generations?

It’s well known that children of trauma survivors often experience secondary trauma– a kind of stress reaction that is ‘caught’ by someone, simply by hearing about the original trauma. A substantial amount of literature, for example, has been written that examined Second Generation Holocaust Survivors. The children of Holocaust survivors often went on to have […]

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