Psychotherapy

Key neural mechanisms are responsible for emotion, memory consolidation, and lasting personal change.

New research find altered states of consciousness may allow veterans and other patients with PTSD to face unspeakable experiences and find peace.

Motherhood depicted in film is replete with meaning, symbolic to the core.

Powerful psychic defenses are keeping humanity from facing a number of interconnected crises. How can these psychic defenses be overcome?

Mental health care for victims of violence may be a way out of the darkness for Latin America.

A psychoanalyst shares her experience working with patients whose lives are marked by poverty, migration, and race and gender discrimination.

If we had 1 extra minute with our patients, what question would we ask?

Although botulinum toxin does not have regulatory approval for the treatment of depression in the United States, some reports indicate neurotoxin treatment may mitigate symptoms.

Facts and myths about depression during the holidays.

The patient is watching and learning, even subconsciously, and it is an opportunity to enhance care.

First conceptualized over a century ago, conversion disorder continues to present a challenge to clinicians.

Antipsychotic medications for young children are not being prescribed appropriately, according to a recent study.

Scary or sweet? Read about the value of nonverbal communication and have some spooky fun.

These techniques may help promote self-efficacy and elicit patients’ commitment to resolve ambivalence about treatment.

An added component of cancer treatment is discovering what is most meaningful in the patient’s life and using that to buoy them during difficult moments. That, in a nutshell, is the psychiatrist's role.

In light of many crises taking place today, it is important to celebrate and recognize the contribution of psychoanalytic practice to society.

One can only hope today's challenges will become a “corrective emotional experience."

Sometimes our best intentions lead us down the wrong road. By reconsidering a few seemingly harmless questions, this psychiatrist was able to make the most of his medication-check visits with his patients.

As we slowly and cautiously work toward a practice where space can be shared between therapist and patient, perhaps Freud’s “walking cure” can be enlightening.

In this interview, Dr Aftab and Dr Shedler discuss the relationship between the psychoanalytic worldview and the medical model, and they reexamine the role of psychodynamic psychotherapy in contemporary psychiatry and psychology.

It’s not supposed to happen this way, but when dread pours over and out in this new dark night of the soul, I’m just thankful for anything that makes it stop.

Neighborhoods, tribes, gangs-each have their own culture. Unless you have been raised in one of them and are "known," you come as a stranger.

The goals of psychotherapy education in medical school should be based on these seven ideals.

With the help of psychotherapy, something from the deep unconscious helped cure her depression, forge her character, and guide her to a sense of peace.

Researchers tested the effects of ketamine combined with motivational enhancement therapy in adults drinking 5 alcoholic beverages per day.