Archive | June, 2012

Exercise on the Brain

We tend to focus on the body’s need for exercise. Research makes clear that inactivity is the enemy of the body and that the way to combat that is to be active. As someone who works with people with the mind-body connection in mind, I’m always interested in learning about new findings about what affects […]

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Disappointment

I rarely write in this blog about sporting events (actually this is the first time) given that the theme is psychotherapy and human psychology. However, an image from last night’s NBA Finals encourages me to write about it and what it represents about human emotion and psychotherapy. Yesterday, the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder […]

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On the Usefulness of Psychotherapy Treatment When Dealing with Depression: Some More Thoughts on Charlie Rose Brain Series 2: Depression

As a psychotherapist, I very much appreciated that there was a focus in the Charlie Rose program on depression on the usefulness of psychotherapy when treating depression. I appreciated that the panelists emphasized that the latest research suggests that a combination of psychotherapy and medication management is the most effective strategy in the treatment of […]

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On Human Relationship and Loss

I only caught a few minutes of the Forum program with Louis Breger, a psychotherapist and author of a new memoir about his work. And what I heard I just have to comment on. A caller spoke of entering psychotherapy treatment with abandonment issues and how the psychotherapist said to her that it would only […]

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