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Research-Backed Online Mental Health Interventions

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

So the other week I attended and presented at the First International e-Mental Health Summit 2009 in Amsterdam and already discussed ...

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Design Can Encourage Greater Self-Disclosure

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Every day, our behavior is directly influenced by a number of factors, some of which we may not even ...

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Psychotherapists Unmasked on the Internet

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Five years ago I was having lunch with my father, a psychiatrist of almost 45 years. He was ...

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Are the Media Addicted to Internet Addiction?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

As Dr. John Grohol has cogently argued, there are many reasons to be skeptical ...

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Optimism: Great Technology That Can Help You

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Ever since I was discharged from the inpatient psychiatric program at Johns Hopkins, I have kept a mood journal where I daily ...

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Getting Help for Depression Online

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

As promised, this is one in a series of posts I'll write about online interventions that help treat ...

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Introducing the Journal of Participatory Medicine

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Well, today's the day. After many months of long, hard work by many talented professionals -- among them, Sarah Greene, managing editor; co-editors Jessie Gruman and Charles Smith; and Alan Greene, deputy editor -- the ...

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Amsterdam e-Mental Health Conference 2009

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Last week, I had the honor of attending and presenting at the first international e-Mental Health Summit for 2009, ...

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Facebook, Myspace and Twitter: Evil to Teens

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

"This technology may be interfering with the normal development of a generation, prolonging the “normal” narcissism of adolescence and preventing the ...

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Do Czech Teens Lie Online?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Do Czech teens lie about themselves and their lives on their blogs? A new research study suggests the answer may surprise you -- generally, "No." In a survey of 113 teens, ages 13 to 17 years old, ...

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Phone Psychotherapy Helps Depression

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Imagine a treatment that was so powerful and useful, it could even be delivered by the telephone. That treatment? Good old psychotherapy. We've previously discussed ...

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