Parenting Education: How to Help Your Children After Trauma

Some basics for managing trauma in your child: In some ways, helping children recover from traumatic experiences, can be simple. In other ways, the healing process can seem endless and...

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3 Free CEs for Therapists in Private Practice

Isn’t it interesting that trainings about private practice often do not provide CEs? It is traditionally because the business of psychotherapy is not seen as a clinical issue. However, working...

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The end….

Though I’ve only blogged here for three months, it is with a heavy heart that I inform you Psych Central is undergoing major changes and will not be publishing new...

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An Intimate Exploration of the Process of Divorce, Part II

The impact on emotions and stress during and after divorce is important to review in order to provide appropriate therapeutic interventions. It is also important to discuss the way in...

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An Intimate Exploration of the Process of Divorce, Part 1

Throughout history, there has been an evolution of the institution/deinstitutionalization of marriage as well as divorce. In a nation that is growing and developing in staggering proportions both technologically and...

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In Pandemic, Elderly Plagued by Depression, Loneliness, and Abuse

More than 170,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus and countless others struggle with the aftermath of it months later. But there’s a whole demographic that has endured another aspect...

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Mental Health in the Time of COVID: The Pandemic Under the Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has caused fear and suffering unlike anything seen in our lifetimes. Millions of people have become ill and hundreds of thousands have perished. Families are grieving. Others...

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Are We Really Witnessing a `Mental Health Pandemic?’

As a psychiatrist, I don’t need much convincing that millions of people are suffering emotionally, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Most of us have our “war stories” to...

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Private Practice AMA: Ask Me. Anything

We are going to keep it simple this week! Private Practice AMA: Ask Me Anything. Post your private practice questions in the comments below to get expert answers and links...

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Recovery Plan for Healing from Toxic Relationships

Breaking free from toxic relationships can be challenging. Once the veil is removed from your eyes and you are no longer in denial, you need to figure out how to...

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What Remains of Psychoanalysis: Psychosomatic Illness, 2

Dr. H concluded that Nancy’s physical symptoms resulted from Conversion Disorder. Naturally, one may ask, what is “converted”? And now, for the rest of the story of Nancy and Freud…...

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What Remains of Psychoanalysis: Psychosomatic Illness, 1

“Is it all in my head?” pleaded Nancy. She laid on the bed, one hand clutching her stomach, the other draped across her forehead. “I’ve really lost it now!,” she...

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Five Ways Professionals Can Cope with Suicide

Professionals who work in the mental health field are not immune to loss by suicide. In fact, they and professionals in every field can succumb to suicidal thoughts themselves or...

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10 Indications a Relationship is Going Sour

Hindsight is 20/20 vision when it comes to the fall of a relationship. What was once overlooked, minimized, explained away, or discounted now becomes an obvious sign of a deteriorating...

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7 Steps to Emerging from the Abuse Fog

It finally hit. After years of wondering what was wrong, who was crazy, and how this could have happened, the reality of abusive behavior hits like a ton of bricks....

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Psychoanalysis: What Remains, Part 1

Freud is not dead (nor should we forget any of the old masters). Just as contemplation of Renaissance painters continues to arouse inspiration in modern artists, this foundational figure of...

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Esketamine: Now FDA Approved as a Treatment for Acute Depression

As of this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of esketamine nasal spray as an adjunctive treatment modality for a novel application in major...

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Study: Americans are Resilient When it Comes to Loneliness

With the drastic changes in lifestyle that most Americans have faced over the past five months, one might expect major mental health repercussions. Yet, one study on loneliness has found...

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Long Term Results of Parental Alienation to the Alienated Child

(Source: Dr. Lori Love, Custody Evaluations 101: Allegations and Sensitivities) What are the long-term effects of parental alienation on the child who has been alienated? The results are devastating for...

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New Stimulants: From Remixed Amphetamines to Bedtime Ritalin

You may have noticed that a confusing array of new stimulants has been approved in the last few years. Since 2012, there have been five new amphetamines and two new...

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