Treatment Library

• Wired for Success: Using NLP to Activate Your Brain for Maximum Achievement
  There’s a great quote from Charles Darwin that forms the basis of Wendy Jago’s new book: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the ...
• Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are
  Memoirs have a unique ability to give life to a possible journey that a reader is considering making. "Coming of Age on Zoloft" by Katherine Sharpe is one such memoir. Prozac, the first and probably the most ...
• 4 of the Biggest Barriers in Bipolar Disorder
  People with bipolar disorder can face many challenges -- from the illness’s fluctuating feelings to its destructive effects ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: The Eyes Have it
  Seeing is believing, yes? In our day-to-day world, we believe that ...
• OCD and Humor
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder often is portrayed as a quirky, cutesy, bothersome at most, illness. This couldn’t be further from the truth. ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: Environmental Impact
  Memory loss is the most well known problem associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias (ADRD). ...
• OCD and Hyper-responsibility
  One of the driving forces behind obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an inflated sense of responsibility, known as hyper-responsibility. Those who suffer from ...
• Playing the Genetic Lottery
  In her first novel, Playing the Genetic Lottery, Terri Morgan tells the story of Caitlin Kane, a young woman whose parents and sibling suffer from schizophrenia. The novel is written as a sort of faux-memoir ...
• Children with Fibromyalgia Benefit from CBT
  Recent research suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy can improve the lives of children and adolescents suffering ...
• Habilitation Therapy for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
  According to Silverman, Flaherty and Tobin (2006), ..."[I]t is a better understanding of the psychology of dementia – ...
• A Gentle Path through the Twelve Principles: Living the Values Behind the Steps
  Renowned addiction expert Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. penned the classic A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps in 1994. While this book has helped hundreds of thousands of people, it is admittedly finite. In Carnes’s words, ...
• The Importance of Support for Eating Disorders
  In her first session with me Rose exclaimed emphatically, “No offense to you, but I feel that I should be ...
• Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom
  Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedomis a collection of essays examining the complex, often paradoxical relationships between psychoanalysis and politically repressive European, Latin American and North American regimes from ...
• OCD: Rational People, Irrational Disorder
  When my son Dan was suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) so severe he couldn’t eat, or move ...
• The Little Psychotherapy Book: Object Relations in Practice
  The Little Psychotherapy Book by Allan G. Frankland is a user-friendly, small (187 pages) manual designed to assis understanding psychodynamic psychotherapy from an object relations (O-R) perspective “in a dynamic and easy-to-follow way.” It presents very ...
• Cannabis May Cause Schizophrenia-Like Brain Changes
  Researchers looking at the effects of cannabis on the brain have made some interesting discoveries. The effect ...
• Symptoms of Teen Substance Abuse
  Addiction is defined as the continued use of a mood-altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to ...
• What Everyone Needs to Know About Postpartum Psychosis
  Even though postpartum psychosis is rare -- affecting about 1 to 2 ...
• Living the Twelve Traditions in Today’s World: Principles Before Personalities
  One of the critical components of the highly successful Alcoholics Anonymous is its stated anonymity. Thus, it makes sense when authors Mel B. and Michael Fitzpatrick denounce the relatively recent trend of celebrities making their ...
• What OCD Feels Like: Being Absolutely Uncertain
  Mike's thoughts were driving him “crazy.” One thought would lead him into another and another. His anxiety would ...
• 7 Mistaken Assumptions Angry People Make
  “I guess I have an anger problem. I lose my temper pretty quick. But it’s not ...
• Understanding & Coping with Cyclothymia
  It’s a disorder that leaves you at the mercy of your moods, but tends to be subtle enough that you may not ...
• [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist
  [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist by Andrew J. Ackerman is a book about the author's journey from addiction to recovery.  Ackerman, the self-described hard-line "spiritual atheist," uses the book to offer his experience with 12-step ...
• Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind
  The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology is a streamlined compilation of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), which use multidisciplinary views to help understand the human mind. The objective of this relatively new field ...
• Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
  When I ordered Dr. Shapiro’s book titled Getting Past Your Past, I was expecting a self-help read about how to deal with your past issues with some type of behavioral therapy. However, the subtitle made ...