yesterday, at a lovely meeting of the vancouver chapter of valley women’s network, i met laara atley, originally from finland, the land of saunas. we were talking about body image, plastic surgery and the like when laara made the very valid comment that people who were brought up in a culture where nakedness is normal… Continue reading anorexia and the naked body
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psychiatric medication and diagnoses, working hand in hand
Many Authors Of Mental Health Diagnosis Guidelines Have Financial Ties To Drug Makers, Study Says The majority of psychiatrists who worked on the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s widely influential diagnostic manual had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry before, during or after the manual was published. more … are we surprised?… Continue reading psychiatric medication and diagnoses, working hand in hand
the psychology of cyberspace
john suler of rider university on the psychology of cyberspace, with titallating topics like cyberspace as psychological space cyberspace as dream world bringing online and offline living together and of course it includes a (large!) section on online therapy. in the myths of online therapy, there are two interesting comments: Many sexual abuse survivors report
mood tracking software
medicalnews tells us today Dutch researcher Maarten de Rijke and his co-workers Gilad Mishne and Krisztian Balog have developed a new programme that can trace and explain significant changes in mood patterns on the Internet. MoodViews is a collection of instruments that maps the mood of bloggers as they write their message. this is the… Continue reading mood tracking software
weird psychology
and for today: some weeeeiiiiird ideas about the human psyche: here we have a list of self defeating behaviours, which, nancy spoolman says, require ‘negative techniques‘. okay, that makes sense so far, although there is something a little strange about these long lists of negativities found on this web site. but how is this for… Continue reading weird psychology
transformations
inspired by my last blog entry, the following is a slightly altered excerpt from the satir model, giving a model of how to help people deal with feelings. anger transformed behaviour: what action did you take when you were angry? coping: how were you using anger to cope better? feelings: were there other feelings associated… Continue reading transformations
therapy, goal setting, yearnings and expectations
last week i had the great pleasure of taking a goal planning workshop with mary-lou hill. this workshop was originally designed for women who are part of mary kay cosmetics. however, since mary-lou is the mother of my friend ronnie (of part-ninja), a few of ronnie’s friends got to have a workshop designed just for… Continue reading therapy, goal setting, yearnings and expectations
gratitude
i just stumbled across a sober thought, a blog by dayvud, a recovering alcoholic. it looks like we have a number of interests in common, including buddhist nun and writer pema chodron and the book the spirituality of imperfection (the one by kurtz and ketcham, not the one by richard rohr, another
obesity research
back in january, i posted an entry about the controversy around the size of the “obesity epidemic”. i just received a comment about this, suggesting that the article i had pointed out in that entry was naïve
internet addiction?
it’s evening, and i’m really tired. i should go to bed. but wait, let me check my email. and the other email. and wasn’t i going to look up something on depth-oriented brief therapy? oh! ding! here’s another message! and i haven’t really played spider solitaire yet today. and … now it’s late evening. i’m… Continue reading internet addiction?