Category Archives: Therapy

A New Drug for Serious Depression: The Good News and the Bad

A new study has found that Esketamine works for treating chronic serious depression, but ...

A Novel No-Meds, 5-Pronged Anti-Depression Strategy

Use one, some, or all of these innovative strategies to lift depression's dark cloud. Do it yourself, or ask a therapist to help.

A Quick and Quirky Addition to Depression Treatment Options

Extensive medical research has established that when people feel a sense of well-being there is more energy in their left than their right prefrontal lobe. Their brain, by contrast, has more energy in the right prefrontal lobe when depression is present.

A Quick Fix for Narcissism—and Depression Too

Too much narcissism in your life? Too much depression? Here's an action plan to fix both of these two very different problems, and to end narcissistic-depressive interactions.

A Surprising Discovery: How Placebos Can Help Relieve Pain

What does recent research suggest about how chronic pain sufferers can use placebos (fake pills) to reduce real pain? Might this psychological technique reduce opioid use as well?

10 Gifts: Wisdom From an Extraordinary Therapist and Healer

Dale Peterson was a masterful energy therapist. In honor of his death, I am sharing some of his powerful techniques and innovations.

10 Keys to Becoming Psychologically Savvy

Are these 10 psychological understandings enhancing your well-being?

3 Ways a Therapist Establishes Trust in Therapy

A strong therapeutic alliance is to therapy what a secure attachment is between parent and child. What ingredients enable a therapy client to trust a therapist?

5 Realities About Depression That Make It Highly Contagious

Depression has five main attributes. Each of these five factors adds to making depression a particularly communicable condition.

Parental Alienation: What Can an Alienated Parent Do?

For starters, information is power. Posted Feb 27, 2018 In my recent blogpost entitled “Parental [...]