Psych Central Blogs

Psych Central hosts a number of blogs highlighting different concerns in mental health and psychology, bringing fresh perspectives, ideas and news updates in small, digestable nuggets. Below, you'll find an index of the most recent entries from our blogs.

World of Psychology

Getting Therapy When There’s No Money

By John M Grohol PsyD on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 in World of Psychology

I can't help but mention this article in The New York Times about how to get mental health care when you have no insurance or for some reason your have minimal coverage for mental health concerns with your current health insurance (which should change come January 1, 2010 when the...

Surviving the Suicide of Someone You Love

By Elvira G. Aletta, Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 in World of Psychology

My brother's childhood best friend committed suicide. I was 16 years old at the time, Mark (not his real name) was 21. Mark's parents were close friends of my parents; we played together as little kids, he was my first crush. We drifted apart as we grew up. Mark was...

Woman Loses Sick-Leave Benefits for Depression Thanks to Facebook Pics

By Summer Beretsky on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in World of Psychology

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By John M Grohol PsyD on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in World of Psychology

Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this symposium every year is to tackle a particular issue in mental health policy, population or care. This year focused, fittingly enough, on health care reform...

Year in Review: Your Picks

By John M Grohol PsyD on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in World of Psychology

It's that time of the year again, when we pull together our top picks for mental health and psychology stories in the news in the past year. There's no magic to our choices, we're just looking for stories that you believe had the biggest positive or negative impact in this...

Always Learning

Doing the Math: “Math” and “School” Are an Imperfect Fit

By Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 in Always Learning

It’s no wonder that learning math is quicker or easier for some people than for others. In my last post we saw that math is not a natural skill. There’s no “math part of the brain” that automatically seeks out and absorbs algebra. We learn math by painstakingly linking each...

Doing the Math: Your Brain on Math

By Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in Always Learning

So many of us have negative feelings about our experiences learning math, and we walk around thinking of ourselves as “not math people.” And there is so much hype these days about math being easy and natural and fun for kids to learn, but then again we see so many...

Anxiety & OCD Exposed

Psychotherapy: Art or Science?

By Laura L. Smith, Ph.D. on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Anxiety & OCD Exposed

In recent weeks, several articles have appeared previewing the work to be published in November’s Psychological Science in the Public Interest. In this article, the authors allege that the majority of psychotherapists fail to use empirically validated treatments. Furthermore they suggest that millions of people are getting therapy based on...

When Dummies Get Together

By Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D. on Monday, November 09th, 2009 in Anxiety & OCD Exposed

To our regular blog readers: Forgive us for indulging in some stray musings today. We’re hanging out in the San Francisco airport waiting for our flight back home to New Mexico, reflecting on the unique conference that just wrapped up. Actually, it was an unconference, meaning that it was designed to be interactive...

Bipolar Beat

Bipolar Disorder Reports Skewed?

By Joe Kraynak on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 in Bipolar Beat

Bipolar disorder gets a lot of bad press, even among those of us who have struggled with it in our lives. I have noticed this particularly online, from exasperated family members and exhausted individuals with bipolar who haven’t yet found effective treatment. I wonder whether it’s just the nature of...

Bipolar Disorder Q&A: What is a better job?

By Candida Fink MD on Friday, November 13th, 2009 in Bipolar Beat

Sara Asks… I am trying to get back to work and find a better job. But what is “better?” I was doing what I thought I loved to do. I have spent $30,000 on my education, and have been working toward this particular career goal for 12 years. I have...

Celebrity Psychings

Mary Weiland Hopes Her Memoir Helps Someone “Connect”

By Alicia Sparks on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in Celebrity Psychings

Back in May, I told you about Mary Forsberg Weiland’s then-upcoming memoir, Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘N’ Roll & Mental Illness. The book has since released and there’s been an increase in attention paid to that particular Celebrity Psychings post, which is sort...

NBC Nightly News Honors Charity Work Of Celebrities

By Alicia Sparks on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Celebrity Psychings

In case you missed it, NBC gave its Nightly News “Making a Difference” series a celebrity spin last week and shined the spotlight on five celebrities who are currently heavily engaged in charity work: Alicia Keys, for her work with Keep a Child Alive, the organization that...

Channel N

Human

By Sandra Kiume on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in Channel N

The nature of mind, and what it means to be human....

Comic Book Hero Saves Self

By Sandra Kiume on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Channel N

Animated story about a young man battling suicidal thoughts metaphorically....

Depression on My Mind

Suicide Survivors Day: What about the children?

By Christine Stapleton on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 in Depression On My Mind

There are books on display by the front table here at the annual conference for survivors sponsored by the southeast Florida Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. There are books on grief, why people commit suicide, my new book on my experience with depression, bipolar and alcoholism, along...

National Suicide Survivors Day: Blogging live from Fort Lauderdale

By Christine Stapleton on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 in Depression On My Mind

I am spending today with several dozen survivors at a gathering sponsored by the southeast Florida chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. On each table are programs for the event, LifeSavers candy and packets of Kleenex. I want to share with you what I experience here today. I...

Family Mental Health

Avoiding Discipline Extremes

By Erika Krull, MS, LMHP on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in Family Mental Health

Parenting can be so difficult when you use too much of a good thing and not enough of another. I’m taking a cue from one of my fair readers who commented on the mother-daughter post a few days ago. It’s about being too strict or too lenient, and then...

Postpartum Depression Versus The Baby Blues

By Erika Krull, MS, LMHP on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Family Mental Health

The more I have learned about postpartum depression, the more I realized how much misinformation is out there. Television, magazines, and the Internet continue to over dramatize and politicize postpartum mental disorders. Or, they are completely dismissive of new mothers truly concerned about their mental health. Right now, I’ll...

Healing Together for Couples

Making Forgiveness Possible In Your Relationship

By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 in Healing Together for Couples

We have discussed in earlier blogs the impact of trauma on relationships, reconsidering the anger in your relationship, communication for anger management, the impact of trauma on sexual intimacy and attempts to reclaim it. Where Does Forgiveness Fit In? With Couples, forgiveness implies the recognition...

Reclaiming Sexual Intimacy in Your Relationship

By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP on Thursday, November 05th, 2009 in Healing Together for Couples

It takes more than just showing up to reclaim or renew a good sexual relationship. Would you just show up on the dance floor to dance the tango together? Apart from the fact that you may have no interest in the tango – probably not. To really dance, you...

Mindfulness & Psychotherapy

Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Change: Interview with Ronald Alexander, PhD

By Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy

Today I’m really happy to bring to you Ronald Alexander, Ph.D., who is a licensed psychotherapist in Santa Monica, Ca, practicing mindfulness-based psychotherapy, Director of the Open Mind Training Institute, adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University and Pacifica Graduate Institute, and author of the very interesting new book Wise Mind, Open...

Mindfulness, Inc.: What You Need to Know

By Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy

Mindfulness has really broken out in a big way, becoming very popular among more and more people. However, there is a danger here that we need to all be aware of. The way of approaching life can bear wonderful fruit, it has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, prevent...

360 Degrees of Mindful Living

Knowing What Exists

By Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D. on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in 360 Degrees of Mindful Living

Point 1 What exists? Does yesterday exist now? Does tomorrow exist now? Of course, not. Our thoughts of yesterday may exist now if we are now thinking of yesterday. Our thoughts of tomorrow may exist now if we are now thinking of tomorrow. But now neither yesterday nor tomorrow...

Get Ahead of the Shadow of Your Programming

By Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D. on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 in 360 Degrees of Mindful Living

I’d like to offer you a meditation (if you read and visualize) or an actual exercise that you can do if it’s sunny outside. Imagine that you’re walking down the sidewalk (or a trail) with the sun right behind you. As you walk, you’ll be able to see your shadow...

Therapy Unplugged

What Does Overeating Mean to me?

By Sonia Neale on Wednesday, November 04th, 2009 in Therapy Unplugged

My therapist asked me a question today. What does overeating mean to me? Food is my best friend and my worst enemy, an evil entity that stalks me in unsuspecting moments. Food is a drug, not unlike heroin. Food is life. Food...

Not Another High School Reunion?

By Sonia Neale on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 in Therapy Unplugged

Going to school and coming home to your parent’s house afterwards is no big deal – unless you’re 47 years old and it’s your second 30th school reunion in four months and you need a crash-pad for the night. Only this time it was with Brother School Mazenod...

Weightless

Body Image/Eating Disorder Myths from the Blogosphere

By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in Weightless

There are tons of misconceptions about what’s attractive, what’s healthy and what an eating disorder really looks like. I talked with several amazing bloggers for their take. Below, you’ll find a list of their myths (and mine ). And if you haven’t already, be sure to bookmark their fantastic...

Navigating the Holidays: Q&A with Marsha Hudnall

By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in Weightless

I’m so thrilled to feature an interview with Marsha Hudnall, MS, RD, CD, director and owner of Green Mountain at Fox Run, a women’s retreat for healthy living without dieting. She contributes to the blogs A Weight Lifted and We Are the Real Deal, both must-reads! I absolutely love her...

The Y Factor

Married to My Mother

By Kate Nickerson on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 in The Y Factor

In a vain attempt to solve my parents’ marital problems, I had them come to therapy with me one time when they were visiting me out west. I was seeing a therapist because I was trying to work through some problems with my boyfriend, Russell, while our relationship crashed and...

I’ll Hurt You Before You Hurt Me

By Kate Nickerson on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in The Y Factor

In my family the concept of “I’ll hurt you before you hurt me” was our modus operandi. It manifested itself most acutely at the dinner table. For years it went undetected, until my sister-in-law, Meg1, came into our lives. As my father, brother (Mike), and I went about this destructive...

PsychSplash

Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

By Psych Central Resource Editor on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 in PsychSplash

For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation’s leading legal advocate...

International Cultic Studies Association

By Psych Central Resource Editor on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in PsychSplash

ICSA’s mission is to apply research and professional perspectives to the problems encountered by family members and former group members...

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