World of Psychology

Archive for May, 2007

Did Medications Drive Ann Bauer’s Son Crazy?

Monday, May 21st, 2007

There’s a lot of things in life that can drive a person “crazy.” Relationships, work, heck, even mental illness.

But in an article entitled, …

Unfair Treatment Impacts Mental Health

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

CNN is reporting that when people experience treatment that they view is unfair, they can suffer from a variety of physical and psychological problems. …

Teaching Toughness in the UK

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

The BBC is reporting that a new projecting is allowing teachers from the UK to come to the US and learn about teaching resilence …

Kids’ Brains Grow Up Faster

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

As  we reported here, children’s brains appear to largely reach adult development much sooner than previously believed — 11 or 12 — not in …

Prozac at 20

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Twenty years ago, Prozac (fluoxetine) burst onto the antidepressant market, changing forever the way antidepressants would be prescribed, sold, and marketed. Not only did …

Disturbing Prescribing Trends in Teenagers

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Pharmalot brings us More Teenagers On More Meds: Why? Why indeed.

The problem with data like this is we can’t answer the question of why …

Brooke Shields on Postpartum Depression

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Brooke Shields speaks candidly to ABC News about her own postpartum depression (PPD) experience after the birth of her first child. An edited transcript …

Should You Be on Meds, Psychotherapy or Both?

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Time and time again we’re inundated in the media by ads for different medications that are supposed to help with this or that condition, including …

Another Online Community Compromised

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Robert Hsiung’s “Psychobabble” community, running a very old online message board script from Matt’s Script Archive (WWWBoard, which isn’t acknowledged anywhere on the Psychobabble site …

Meditation Improves Attention

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Buddhist philosophy and the practice of meditation continues to have a large influence on current Western thought about psychological treatment. Mindfulness is growing into an …

Bipolar News Everywhere

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

If it hadn’t been previously, I think bipolar disorder can finally be considered the ‘buzz diagnosis’ of the current time frame. There are ads, news …

Withdrawal from Antidepressants

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Vaughan has a post about a New York Times article over the weekend about a person’s experience with being prescribed an antidepressant. But …

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