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Psychotherapy Brown Bag is an interactive online magazine featuring articles written by prominent researchers and clinicians. The aim of the site is to provide information on the use of science to drive psychotherapy. The intended audience is broad and includes clinicians, researchers, and non-professional individuals interested in obtaining information on effective mental health treatment.

I'm Dr. Adam Sheck, and I'd like to welcome you to the "Men After Fifty" Community! Living for more than half a century on this planet is a rite of passage and I wanted to create a place where we can share our wisdom and experience to help each other and to help those who matter in our lives.

An online mental health resource for those who may have begun their journey of self-discovery during and after their psychotherapy treatment.

Neuroscience and psychology news and views.

Understand your mind with the science of psychology.

If you have arrived at this page, it's probably because you are dealing with change in your life, either trying to make a change, or working to absorb change which is already happening. I help people change. I have been doing this since 1985.

SMARTERrelationships provides professional relationship advice for women and men and is devoted to celebrating and promoting healthy relationships in a fun and informative way. We coach you on how to live and love smarter in dating and marriage relationships.

My Twitter question of the week is: Any ideas on how a therapist goes to 8-5? I assume this question means "How do you keep from having clients spread out over 16 hours a day, seven days a week, when you are starting out?"

There's a lot more to addiction than many people realize. For questions about how addiction or addiction treatment works, check out our addiction blog or call Denver Recovery Center at 844-307-2955.

We are interested in the uses of hypnotherapy for developing calm, relaxation and confidence and for overcoming problems such as stress, anxiety and overeating.

Have you ever been startled by the sound of firecrackers or barking dogs? How about dreams where you awaken suddenly and intensely about being in an accident? Me, too. The problem is that the memory is stuck in our bodies. If you read last week's popular post on Positive Psychology, you're familiar with the importance [...]

Manchester Psychotherapy blog page for information on counselling, therapists, couples therapy and helpful advice you can use yourself.

I take a theory. I then slate it. I like to call it constructive criticism, others call it taking the piss. (by PsychologySlater)

On this past Sunday's broadcast of "Weekend Edition" on National Public Radio, the focus was on the 50th anniversary of Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique. In this book Friedan raged against the status of women in the 1960s.

The currently most widely held view of the world is materialist. According to this view phenomena which appear immaterial have, or could only have, a materialist explanation. These phenomena could, in other words, be reduced to causal chains as physics and chemistry present them.

The early editions of the DSM were chaotic. With more recent editions, there have been attempts to cluster symptoms into disorders in a way that is more useful: that allows for meaningful research and allows clinicians to have some diagnostic reliability.

Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: 7 tips for making other people feel smart and insightful. We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

As we get ready to celebrate Mother's Day this weekend, we have been greeted with news of the liberation of three young women who were held in captivity for nearly 10 years in a ramshackle house located in a rundown neighborhood of Cleveland.

On May 21, 2005, David Foster Wallace got up before the graduating class of Kenyon college and delivered one of history's most memorable commencement addresses. It wasn't until Wallace's death in 2008 that the speech took on a life of its own under the title This Is Water, and was even adapted into a short book.

There's been some big news this week in the world of mental health (for one that suicide among baby boomers is increasing to the point where the number of suicides per year in the United States now exceeds deaths by automobile accidents), but perhaps the biggest story relates to the National Institute for Mental Health rejecting the authority of the soon-to-be-released Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known to most in the business as simply, DSM-5.

Take psychological self-tests and quizzes, check symptoms of common disorders, look up medications, compare types of psychotherapy, or learn about secure...

This page is dedicated to discussing current events and topics of interest. Please feel free to contact me with questions questions or comments. This page will be updated often, so please check back frequently. Click on the title to be directed to the article you are interested in reading about below.Be sure to search Archives for past posts that were written for this blog.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Musings on the science of holistic wellness.

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