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Supportive Psychotherapy in Everyday Clinical Practice: It’s Like Riding a Bicycle

May 24, 2017 | Psychotherapy, Cultural Psychiatry, Major Depressive Disorder

By Eugenio M. Rothe, MD and American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Supportive psychotherapy can serve as the first bridge out of social isolation and marginalization and addresses personality issues, such as deficits in character structure and defense mechanisms.

A Dog Says "Thank You"

May 22, 2017 | Psychotherapy, Anxiety, Couch in Crisis, PTSD, Trauma And Violence, Writer's Contest

By Justin O. Schechter, MD

The human-animal relationship can provide insight into the patient’s ability to connect, to interact, and to show care and empathy. Plus, companion animals tend not to breach confidentiality.

Why Aren’t We All in Therapy?

May 17, 2017 | Residents Blog, Career, Depression, Psychotherapy, Residents Corner

By Charles A. Whitmore, MD, MPH and Lucas A. Salg, MD

The looming specter of emotional and physical exhaustion in residency often takes hold well into a physician's career. So what are we doing about it?

Therapy for Cognition: Restoring the Self in Bipolar Disorder

News | April 12, 2017 | Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Cognitive Disorders, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia

By Chris Aiken, MD

Functional remediation therapy addresses the cognitive problems of the nearly 50% of patients who remain impaired even when euthymic.

A Psychiatrist Burns Out

March 30, 2017 | Couch in Crisis, Career, Psychotherapy

By H. Steven Moffic, MD

I loved being a psychiatrist. Note the past tense.

Perinatal Psychiatry: Where Psychoanalytic Theory, Neuroscience, and Integrated Clinical Psychiatry Meet

March 24, 2017 | Major Depressive Disorder, Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression, Neuropsychiatry, Psychotherapy

By Joanna E. Chambers, MD and American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

From a psychodynamic and neurobiological perspective, the recommendation to screen all pregnant and postpartum women for depression and anxiety falls short of what is actually needed to improve the lives of many mothers and their infants and children.

How About a Game of Chess?

March 13, 2017 | Couch in Crisis, Psychotherapy, Residents Corner, Schizophrenia, Writer's Contest

By Mark Messih, MD, MSc

A psychiatrist's chess game with his patient didn't go the way he expected.

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Words Heal: Coping With Cancer
March 25, 2014 | Couch in Crisis, Depression, Poetry, Psychotherapy
By Richard M. Berlin, MD
When a full-time writer's husband was diagnosed with cancer, she found writing poetry helped her cope. She guessed that others would, like her, find their experiences with cancer best expressed through poetry. So began The Cancer Poetry Project.
Spiritual Matters: Inspiring Clinical Care
News | November 13, 2013 | Cultural Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
By John R. Peteet, MD, Michael A. Norko, MD, MAR, Wai Lun Alan Fung, MD, ScD, and Theresa A. Yuschok, MD
Can spirituality be used as a tool in treatment? In this video, Dr Michael Norko briefly discusses spirituality and its role in clinical care. Colleagues also summarize their recent presentations on spirituality and religion in psychiatric practice.