Does Television Hurt or Help Your Brain?
In a 2013 study conducted by Tohoku University, neuroscientist Hikaru Takeuchi and other...
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Category: Psychotherapy
Treating People in Therapy – Not Diagnostic Labels – A Holistic Approach
So many of my clients have expressed relief that I treat them as individuals and I do not in any...
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How To Find A Good Mental Health Counselor
Many people have a difficult time in finding an effective mental health counselor. Just like...
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A Quick Look At Psychotherapy
What is psychotherapy? Psychotherapy is a valuable tool to cope not only with all forms of human...
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What’s Wrong with Psychological Tests
The second edition of the PCL-R test, originally designed by the controversial maverick Canadian...
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The Narcissist in Therapy
Interview granted to The New Therapist By Sam Vaknin Author of “Malignant Self Love –...
Read MoreSelf-Help, Coaching or Counseling: Which ARE Right for Me?
What Is Self-Help ? It used to be considered a rite-of-passage many years ago for boys to learn how to fix their own car and girls to become a whiz in the kitchen. Times change! Cars are now so complicated that very few people...
Read More Does Psychotherapy Work?
Many years ago, when I became a psychotherapist, all I knew was the traditional psychotherapy that...
Read MoreThe Revolution of Psychoanalysis
“The more I became interested in psychoanalysis, the more I saw it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess.” Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th century, the...
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In Defense of Psychoanalysis
No social theory has been more influential and, later, more reviled than psychoanalysis. It burst...
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Who’s Who In The Mental Health Service
When a person is experiencing psychological or emotional difficulties (hereafter called...
Read MorePsychological Tests and Structured Interviews
I. Introduction Personality assessment is perhaps more an art form than a science. In an attempt to render it as objective and standardized as possible, generations of clinicians came up with psychological tests and structured...
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