“All Nighters” is a New York Times blog series about insomnia–how it’s lived, what to do about it. Cartoonist Roz Chast recommends playing some individual Scattegories, “The A to Z Cure“: One thing I do when I can’t sleep is play alphabet games. I try to list various things from A to Z: countries, rock […]
A study relayed by the New York Times: About one in every four Americans married or living with someone say they are so sleep-deprived that they are often too tired to have sex, according to a new study by the National Sleep Foundation. Lack of sleep also keeps many people from work and family functions,
PsyBlog digs into psych study history and answers the question, Does Playing Hard To Get Work?: [E]very time psychologists used an experiment to test the idea that playing hard to get is a good dating strategy, their results didn’t make any sense. At least not until 1973 when Elaine Walster and colleagues at the University
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A long review/think piece in the New Yorker about therapy and psychiatry, including the view from Gary Greenberg’s book, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease: Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to
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Skiing, pizza, and group–program for teens profiled in the Calgary Herald: There’s no texting on skis. No distractions. Just fresh air and the challenge of learning a new sport. So-called “bad kids” can leave their reputation behind at school and forge a better one in the outdoors. That’s the theory behind the Adventure Therapy program,
The L.A. Times joins the Tiger Woods-triggered sex addiction journalism spree: Unlike compulsive gambling, which also is proposed for addition to the new DSM (to be called DSM-5), the proposed diagnosis — hypersexual disorder — stops short of categorizing the problem as an addiction, and for a reason. “If we are looking at a disorder, it’s
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From PsychCentral, a list of Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments. Click around, help science, maybe have fun. At any given time, hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on. They are a great, cost-efficient method to gather experimental data from the multitudes of people online. These experiments can be fun to try, but also provide
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A new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic
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A vigorous response to the NYT’s Depression’s Upside article by Dr. Ronald Pies at PsychCentral: [W]e have the myth of depression as a “clarifying force,” or as an “adaptive response to affliction” — notions being advanced by a number of psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists. Thus, Lehrer quotes psychiatrist Andy Thomson as saying, “…even if you
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For internet daters (and stats lovers), a series of new and old posts at the OkCupid.com blog: Interactive maps showing why men should be looking to date older women, among other things. Another entry looks at the data and comes up with Exactly What to Say in a First Message. Another looks at How Races and
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