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Psychiatry & Psychology | By November 27, 2007 | By Robert Yourell, MA | 3 Comments
Spirituality and Mental Health, Part III of IV: Psychotherapy Beyond Words
Is there Energy in Psychology?
I was conducting debriefing after a workplace suicide. The problems ran far deeper than a single suicide, because it turned out to be symptomatic of a drug culture that pervaded the workplace. A bald-headed man came in and said he was afraid because he had a heart condition. He was stocky, and his round head and face were very red. After about one minute of so-called energy psychology, his color was restored to normal, he was no longer afraid, and we were able to talk about more than his acute reaction to workplace stress. Read more →
- Spirituality and Mental Health, Part II of IV: Spiritually Integrative Neurology
- Body Image Research
- Spirituality and Mental Health, Part I of IV: Active Ingredients of Spirituality
- Psychotherapy What?
- Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Eating Disorder Expose
- Curb Domestic Violence/Abuse and Slash the Incidence of Mental Disorders
- New Tool to Diagnose Adolescent Depression
- Estrogen Reduces Risk of Alzheimer’s in Women
- Problem Eating Behavior in Preschool Children
- Psychiatry - Label-Based Quackery or Research-Based Science?
- Call for Answers from Scientologists
In this article, we’ll look at some active ingredients of spirituality that are supported by research. Since they turned out to be God-optional, I’ll call this SIN (spiritually integrative neurology). Active vs. Passive: Locus of Control in Spirituality To understand spirituality and health,... Read more →
Back in September, Sudip Ghosh offered a review at Brain Blogger of a new book on anorexia, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters. One of the many aspects of the complex problem of eating disorders is body image. It was informative, then to come across an article summarizing a wide variety of research findings... Read more →
These articles are going to cover a lot of ground very fast. Hold onto your hat. Shocking news from the research trenches: It is not enough to just assess patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQL). It is not enough to tell patients the results of the assessment. It is not even enough to discuss... Read more →
Here’s an interesting Google statistic. I searched on “psychotherapy innovation” and “engineering innovation.” Here are the hits: 1,210,000 for psychotherapy innovation, which is under 1% of 136,000,000 for engineering innovation. But I estimate that there are 45% as many... Read more →
To my utter delight, at last there is a book that lashes out at the spectra of thinness and beauty that sets off millions of our young girls, on an obsessive path of starvation and self-punishment. Perfecting oneself has been mainly a matter of self-discipline and education for the most major part of... Read more →
A new study presented by the World Health Organization points to the international community’s efforts to curb interpersonal violence and its mental and physical consequences. This past week nearly 200 experts on violence prevention assembled in Scotland for “Milestones 2007,” a gathering... Read more →
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between 1992 to 2004, the rate of hospitalization for depression has increased approximately 81% for females and 30% for males aged 5-19 years. In 2004, more than 5,000 US children and adolescents committed suicide and an additional... Read more →
“Keep that estrogen level up, my lady” seemed like a great motto for American Academy of Neurology’s 59th Annual Meeting. A study announced earlier this month at AAN’s 59th annual meeting shows that women who use hormone therapy before the age of 65 can cut their risk of developing... Read more →
Greek physician Hippocrates once said, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” According to the National Institutes of Health, at least one out of five kids in the U.S. is... Read more →
After reviewing your comments and based on the video discussed in the last article, I’ve decided to review some of the general themes often cited by opponents of psychiatry. Here is the first anti-psychiatry argument. Psychiatry applies subjective labels to patients. Do we do more harm than good... Read more →
Our last roundtable incited much commentary on the anti-psychiatry movement, especially from Scientology perspectives. I find that the movement is gaining popularity (at least, online) from circles even beyond followers of the Church. The topic should be intensively discussed to understand all sides... Read more →
Saturday, July 5, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- The Bipolar Trend
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Encephalon, Forthy-Third Edition
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Staying the Course Prescribed for Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: A Family's Journey Thus Far
- Breaking News - Exercise is Good for You!
- Ethical Obligations of Health Care Workers During a Pandemic
- Treating Psychiatric Disorders - Something Smells Fishy
- Going Beyond Informed Consent
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn’t Mess Around
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Prescriptive Authority - Are Pharmacists “Write”?
- Should Patients with Schizophrenia Receive Free Medication?
- Should Doctors Unionize?
- Blood Glucose and the Brain: Sugar and Short-Term Memory
- Should Doctors be Paid by Drug Companies for Research?
- How Do We Feed Our Children?
- Ethics 101 - Patients Who Hide The Truth
- Food Additives, Hyperactivity, and Common Sense
- Concierge Medicine - The Future or the Past?
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Fifth Edition
- Are Placebos A Betrayal?
- New Technology for Intracranial Aneurysms
- Stem Cell Research - Man vs. God
- Using Infrared Light to Diagnosis Alzheimer’s
- Sorry - that last post was mine.
We have better medical care than they did in...
- What a great, informative article! I'm new to the blogging world, and found your...
- Thanks Toby, Yes, the numbers are frightening.
So it would be 39 million d...
- Starlight,
On the HHS webcast with teh OSHA folks they did admit that 68% ...
- GASP! Breaking news... Excuse me while I go lay down for a bit... whew
:D...
- Bless you starlight for your realistic math. The WHO numbers don't relate to re...
- I'm writing in RP, too. Once at Ivillage, (sorry, I've been signed in for awhile...
- My father passed away from bladder cancer caused by secondhand smoke. The 38,000...
- I agree about the necessity of DHA. However, DHA from fish is not ideal as it i...
- Since my vote is supposed to represent who I think would best serve my prioritie...
- Also, regarding the "Presidential Elect" (ughhh....) don't blame me - I was a RP...
- We have a lot in common. I pay "little attention" to GMF's (bad I know, but the...
- The WHO's numbers are not accurate.
There are approximately 6.5 Billion peopl...
- Thanks, Kobie.
I appreciate the heads-up regarding the upcoming event. I will d...
- Thanks for the article. Dept of Health and human services is having a webcast on...
- What benefits would a patient with schizophrenia have if they were to have a MRI...
- How ironic to address these issues on the anniversary of our "independence", as ...
- Hi,
I followed a conscious feeding regime with my eldest boy many years ago. ...
- LOL - I know too well of the revolving door of FDA/NIH and Pharma... if you real...
- Dr. Sherry Tenpenny's theory is that if mainstream medicine dares to question '...

