Birth Weight
Not mental health per se, but with big psych impact: A NYT article about how early habits (really early–starting in the womb) can get someone set on a course for obesity later in life.
Depth = Happiness
A (small) study relayed by the NYT suggests more deep conversation and less small talk promotes happiness. So, surprise (?), therapy is good.
What is TMS?
Psychologist Dr. Eric Sherman talks about treating chronic pain with talk therapy at Where the Client Is: I have received photos from former patients in which they are break dancing, sky diving, or performing yoga contortions worthy of Cirque du Soleil. All of them had been advised to undergo surgery to correct disc herniations, the
Fat Discrimination
An essay in the NYT, For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight, by Harriet Brown. “As soon as I shook the interviewer’s hand, I knew she would not hire me […] She gave me a look of utter disdain, and made a big deal about whether we should take the stairs or ride the elevator
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Happiness Politics
Elizabeth Kolbert asks, What can policymakers learn from happiness research? in a New Yorker book review. A quick tease: [T]he relationship between money and well-being turns out to be a lot less straightforward than is generally assumed.
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Depressed Parenting
Being a parent is difficult and demanding on the best of days. But, as the L.A. Times reports, when parents are depressed, it gets much tougher–and kids are the ones most affected. The fallout from parental depression doesn’t just go away. […] Children caught in the cold grip of a parent’s depression can carry patterns
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Tourette’s Syndrome Q&A
MDs answer reader questions about living with Tourette’s syndrome –part of the NYT’s Consults blog. Linked from there, Patient’s Voices–audio, including Louis Centanni, a comedian with Tourette’s.
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Beer Goggles or “Attentional Myopia”
From PsyBlog, What Alcohol Does to Your Mind: Attentional Myopia takes a look at the narrowing effect drinking has on thinking: According to a growing body of evidence collected over the last three or more decades, people’s Jekyll and Hyde behaviour while drinking can be understood by a simple idea which has some intriguing ramifications.
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Behavioral Optometry vs. ADHD
Another massive mental-health related piece in the New York Times magazine–Concocting a Cure for Kids with Issues. [Some] parents often don’t trust the mental-health professionals who usually treat children with “issues,” as we euphemistically tend to refer to problems like learning disabilities, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism or other developmental difficulties. […] That’s why some of
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Therapy Books
A reader poll at Where the Client Is came up with the “best-ever therapy books” for therapists and for everyone. Both list-toppers, I think, make good “everybody” titles. They are: Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl The Gift of Therapy, by Irvin Yalom Both worth the time.