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Do Beliefs Shape Outcomes?
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Gandhi I would venture a guess that most people who are reading this article have heard of a phenomenon called the placebo effect which is described as an inert substance either injected or ingested that has perceived benefit for the patient. It could take the form of a...
Source: World of Psychology - December 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Memory and Perception Psychology Psychotherapy Research Treatment Medication Mood Stabilizers Placebo Placebo Effect Source Type: blogs

Therapist Grief
As a therapist, many people come in with issues with grief. For years I have tried to help clients figure out the well know Elisabeth Kubler Ross Stages of Grief and what stage in their grief they are in: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. It has been sad to watch clients suffer and deal with grief. I have wished many times that I could help take their pain away. Until one month ago, I had never lost anyone or any pets that were close to me.   One month ago, my husband and I decided to go for a light walk/jog with our two kids and our 14-year-old dog Ivory. It was a normal 75-80-degree summer midwestern...
Source: World of Psychology - August 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica Wright, LCSW Tags: Depression Grief and Loss Personal Professional Psychology Psychotherapy Bereavement Coping Skills Pet loss Pet Therapy therapy dog Source Type: blogs

On Seeking Counseling Before You Need To
Many clients I see here in private practice in the Midwestern area of Illinois are often very stressed. They come in appearing very calm and as soon as I get to the point on my questionnaire about what brings them their they tell me, often with tears and a sense of shame about how long they have been struggling due to their busy lives, lack of self-care and fears of the judgement might have about them. We talk about the stressors they have been having throughout their lives and although they often say none at first, the more we talk the more profoundly amazed I am that they are doing so well holding all their emotions in f...
Source: World of Psychology - August 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica Wright, LCSW Tags: Personal Professional Psychology Psychotherapy Self-Help Stigma Stress Treatment anxiety Entering therapy overwhelm Self Care self-compassion stress reduction support Worry Source Type: blogs

Trial by Error: The NICE guidelines, and more on the CDC
This study exemplifies some of the problems common in this field of research, as I described on Virology Blog months ago. (Professor Esther Crawley of Bristol University, the trial’s lead investigator, subsequently referred to that blog post as “libelous” in a slide she showed during at least two speeches. She has not documented her charge.) The consultation document also notes that only study abstracts, not the studies themselves, were reviewed. This is a surprising methodological choice given the significance of the issue. Abstracts can be seriously misleading and incomplete; studies themselves obviously provide a ...
Source: virology blog - July 17, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The 3 Parts of Your Brain Affected by Trauma
An inside look at the traumatized brain, and how you can start to heal. Approximately 50 percent of the population will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lives.1 While reactions to trauma can vary widely, and not everyone will develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), trauma can change the brain in some predictable ways that everyone should be aware of, especially if you or someone close to you is struggling to cope after trauma. How Your Childhood Trauma Is Ruining Your Current Relationship With increased awareness, you can seek treatment to address your PTSD symptoms and learn skills that could ac...
Source: World of Psychology - July 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders PTSD Publishers Trauma YourTango Amygdala Anterior Cingulate Cortex Dr. Jennifer Sweeton Mindfulness Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Prefrontal Cortex Psychotherapy Source Type: blogs

How to Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.” – Samuel Butler Do you think of yourself as a serious person? Do you find little to laugh about or is it difficult to let yourself go and enjoy what you’re doing, who you’re with, what you must look forward to tomorrow? There’s a difference between being thoughtful and earnest and being serious. I like to think that seriousness must involve an important situation or problem, not a demeanor I want to portray on an everyday basis. Some might say that I’m too easygoing, but that’s not it, either. I simply want to ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Best of Our Blogs Habits Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Personality Psychology Self-Help Success & Achievement Experience goals Gratitude Negativity Optimism Source Type: blogs

The Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy & Transformation
BY SUNEEL RATAAN The Ketamine Papers serves as an essential window into the rapidly accelerating application of the anesthetic cum party drug ketamine to individuals with disorders such as treatment-resistant depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In addition, the book’s release coincides with other psychedelics, MDMA (aka ‘Ecstasy’) and psilocybin, being cleared for late-phase clinical trials as therapeutic adjuncts for the treatment and – dare we say – cure of those and related disorders, a process that will still take some years. Given what seems to be an increasing explosion of interest in the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Ecstasy LSD MDMA Psilocybin PTSD Source Type: blogs

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: For More Than Borderline Personality Disorder
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), developed by Marsha Linehan in the late 1980’s is a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It is now considered the treatment of choice for individuals with characteristics associated with symptoms of BPD such as impulsivity, interpersonal problems, emotion dysregulation, self-harm, and chronic suicidal behaviors. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a type of cognitive therapy that focuses on the balance between acceptance and change. DBT works with indi...
Source: World of Psychology - April 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lianna Tsangarides, LCSW Tags: Addiction Anxiety and Panic Borderline Personality Eating Disorders Psychology Psychotherapy Treatment Borderline Personality Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical Behavioral Therapy emotion d Source Type: blogs

New meta-analysis undermines the myth that negative emotions can cause cancer
Discussion of factors increasing the risk of cancer is today not only the domain of medical doctors and psycho-oncologists, but is also engaged in by some alternative medicine proponents, pseudopsychologists, and fringe psychotherapists, whose opinions are disseminated by journalists, some more thorough than others (see myth #26 in 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology for more background). Among these opinions is the common claim that negative thinking, pessimism, and stress create the conditions for the cells in our body to run amok, and for cancer to develop. Similar declarations accompany therapeutic propositions for c...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cancer guest blogger Health Mental health Source Type: blogs

Solutions That Will Be Essential for the Future of Healthcare
By ROBERTO ASCIANO We are living in an age where thousands upon thousands of individuals and companies are trying to find faster, better and cheaper ways to get things done leveraging the latest digital technologies. We are so completely surrounded by efforts to innovate, disrupt and accelerate, that it may come as a surprise to find out that “innovation” has been around ever since our earliest ancestors shed their body hair and started walking upright. Since those early days, our ancestors have sought solutions to their everyday problems and the “technology” they leveraged was whatever the environment around them...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 Health 2.0 Europe Roberto Asciano Speaker Source Type: blogs

How to rediscover meaning in your life
Follow me on Twitter @srinipillay When people feel that their lives have meaning, they perceive their lives as significant, purposeful, and valuable. This is critical for psychological wellbeing. People who feel that their lives have meaning feel less depressed and even have better outcomes in psychotherapy. Feeling that one’s life has meaning can also ease the psychological burden of medical illnesses. For example, people who have medical conditions such as a spinal cord injury cope better when they feel that their lives have meaning, and having a sense of meaning can improve the quality of life in cancer patients. What...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Srini Pillay, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Mental Health Stress Source Type: blogs

Guy Therapy: Why It ’ s So Important!
Most people who seek out psychotherapy are women. The reason for this, it’s been said, is that women are more open to expressing their emotions and asking for help and support. Guys, in contrast, are viewed as too macho or too self-contained to consider therapy. Damn, they can’t even ask for directions, how are they going to ask for help when feeling vulnerable, weak or confused? Why would they want to yakity yak about their problems to a complete stranger? This is akin to exposing the chink in one’s armor. And who would want to do that?   But, it seems to me that we’re unfairly judgmental, because we don’t appr...
Source: World of Psychology - February 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Linda Sapadin, Ph.D Tags: Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness Psychotherapy Treatment Emotional Expression entering treatment Fear Gender Differences Men's Health Shame Vulnerability Source Type: blogs

After half a century of research, psychology can ’t predict suicidal behaviours better than by coin flip
By guest blogger Tomasz Witkowski “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide” the French author and philosopher Albert Camus stated. But it is not only philosophers who are moved by this issue. Psychologists are seeking ways of preventing this tragic death, and health care organisations are sounding the alarm. Around a million people die at their own hand every year, which makes suicide the tenth most common cause of death. Additionally, for every completed suicide, there are 10 to 40 survived attempts, which means that in the USA alone 650,000 people each year are taken to emer...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: guest blogger Mental health Suicide/ self-harm Source Type: blogs

Suddenly, VC Guy Notices Mental Health Care
The quality and resources available to mental health care and treatment in the United States has been on the downswing since the 1980s. It started with the closing of government-run state psychiatric hospitals (putting our most at-need patients at risk, and often, on the streets), without the government offering a comprehensive network of community-based care to take their place. Then managed care — companies driven by profit and greed — came along and mid-level managers with no mental health background started dictating exactly what kind of mental health treatment was appropriate to which patients. Now we liv...
Source: World of Psychology - December 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior General Psychology Psychotherapy Technology Treatment Adam Seabrook mental health apps Mental Health Treatment mental illness treatment talkspace vc venture capital Source Type: blogs

21st Century Cures Act Becomes Law, Improves U.S. National Mental Health Efforts
When President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act on December 13th, he signed into law one of the most sweeping efforts to provide additional programs and funding for health conditions and innovation in America, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, opioid addiction, medical devices, access to new drugs, and mental health. The Cures Act includes the major provisions of the Senate mental health compromise bill, Mental Health Reform Act of 2016, as well as a few additional provisions from the House’s over-reaching Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2016 bill. While the bill goes a long way in h...
Source: World of Psychology - December 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy 21st century cures Helping Families in Crisis mental health reform act Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

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