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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Supportive Psychotherapy 101

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An article in Psychiatric News on June 15 by Arnold Winston [his book] offers a quick review about the elements of supportive psychotherap...
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No Place To Go

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There is a fantastic article up on the New York Times website, coming out in print this weekend in the NYT Magazine, called When My Crazy ...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

The High Cost of (No) SuperMax

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Recently NPR featured a story on All Things Considered about the state of Illinois closing its SuperMax prison in Tamms . The story talked a...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Groupons for Mental Health Care?

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So usually they want to feed me dinner, wax my bikini line, or teach me to para-sail.  Today, a Groupon caught my attention: there is one ...
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Shrink Rap and Guest Posts

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We get a number of unsolicited emails every week from people offering to write guest posts for us.  They would like us to put their tag li...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

How to Ask Your Doctor Intelligent Health Care Questions

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Going to the doctor can be confusing.  Doctors make recommendations based on what they know, and patients are conditioned to trust their...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Bubbles or Bath Salts

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A number of months ago, I had a massage.  It was very relaxing and my massage therapist suggested I take a bath with some special salts l...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Take a Survey on Social Media and Doctor Dissatisfaction

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I've written about a number of scenarios where doctors are negatively reviewed on-line, both on rating sites where the doctor knows the...
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Trauma & Dissociation: Pulling the Cord

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From The New Yorker:  Black Box , by Jennifer Egan. ... Remind yourself that you aren’t being paid when he climbs out of the wat...
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Anatidaephobia

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MovieDoc tells us that Anatidaephobia is the fear that a duck of being watched by a duck.  See the video he led me to below.  I am so glad t...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Double Billing, Revisited

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Remember a few years back when I was posting parts of a novel I was working on?  If you don't, that's fine, it was a long time ago...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

Fifty Shades of Why?

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"Have you read it?" I've been asked that a number of times recently, and no one has to say what "it" is.  The nu...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

I Know What's Good For You

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In medicine, we have certain beliefs, and these beliefs guide what treatments we prescribe and, more generally, how we tell people they s...
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Sunday, June 03, 2012

More About On-Line Doctor Reviews

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I wrote about my experience of getting a one-star review of my psychiatric practice on HealthGrades.com.  I wrote about it on Shrink Rap:...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

WhatsMyM3?

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NBC-4 News Clip from Doreen Gentzler (May 16, 2012) What’s your mental health number? This is the question that ...
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