Articles on Psychiatry
The Flawed Mental Healthcare Industry
I’ve spent the bulk of my life living with depression and anxiety. This means that I’ve spent most of my life in and out of doctor’s offices, with different...
Book Review: Addiction Treatment
Spanning across all socioeconomic statuses, races, cultures and ages, addiction is one of the largest and most insidious problems our society faces today. And yet, for the medical doctors...
Book Review: The Anti-Depressant Book
Teenage suicides can leave us all feeling helpless — especially when they happen in epidemic proportions. But for teenagers who suffer from the sort of depression that might make...
How to Identify & Manage Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, A Psychologist’s Perspective
“I thought OCD was just about constantly washing your hands or having to keep your desk tidy all the time.” Daniel sat in the chair across from me in...
Book Review: Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation
I have had both friends and clients who had dissociative identity disorder. I have also come across therapists who diagnosed virtually every client they saw as DID. I wish...
The Psychosocial Effects on Personality: Social Markers to Follow in Early Personality Development
The environment has its own impact on the development of an individual’s personality. The relationship between parents and between parents and their children matters a lot, as each person...
Effect of Self-Awareness on Ego Functioning: A Perspective on Personality Development
An interesting phenomenon for psychological exploration among human beings is the combination of potential factors that motivate people to keep others in their surroundings perpetually happy and complacent. Basic...
Book Review: Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders
A decade ago, the director of the Harvard-associated mood disorders clinic suggested that rather than asking, “Does this patient have Bipolar Disorder or not?” we should be asking, “How...
Book Review: Treatment Plans & Interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
People sometimes make jokes about being OCD or anal retentive or type A and might even see the terms as interchangeable. You might run across articles in popular magazines...
Book Review: Listening, Learning, Caring & Counselling
Australian mental-health expert Dr. Cate Howell, the author of Listening, Learning, Caring & Counselling: The Essential Manual for Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counsellors and Other Healthcare Professionals on Caring for Their...
Book Review: A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders
James Phelps’ new book, A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar But Not Unipolar—Practical Management, is written for professionals, not laymen. I have some familiarity with bipolar...
Book Review: The Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology
Nothing can be more nerve wracking than applying to graduate school. Reminiscing on my application process makes my stomach a little queasy and my nails start to creep to...
Book Review: Mom, Mania, & Me
Just how is a child cope when her mother goes off the handle in fits of rage, often leaving painful welts on her arms and legs, only to, days...
Book Review: Icarus Redeemed: A Schizoaffective Story
What does it mean to be in the throes of a manic episode? To succumb to paranoia and delusion? For those of us outside of that experience, it can...
Book Review: Meaning Systems & Mental Health Culture
In his new book, Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy, James T. Hansen argues that although meaning systems are central to the...
