The American Psychiatric Association's new diagnostic manual New mental health manual is "dangerous" say experts Reuters Millions of healthy people - includi...
Is individual therapy overrated and outdated? Yes, says Alan Kazdin, a professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale University, writing in the leading journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
This term replaced their own original name “transhumanistic,” or “reaching beyond humanistic concerns.” Soon afterwards, they launched the Association of Transpersonal Psychology (ATP), and started the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.
From Robert Whitaker's post on Psychology Today -- I share this because all too many people still think this pharma created propaganda about chemical imbalances is true: In Defense of Psychiatric...
Humanistic psychology has been focused on helping people achieve their potential, and not just "get better," for over 40 years. Today "positive psychology" investigates the things that make people happy. There's plenty of common ground -- but they aren't the same thing.
I saw news coverage about the 400% increase in anti-depressant use and well, I found it depressing. Here Bruce Levine sees hope in the Occupy Wall Street protests. I do too. Our mental state is not...
Exercise can be as effective as a second medication for as many as half of depressed patients whose condition have not been cured by a single antidepressant medication.
There was a great and inspiring article in the New York Times yesterday entitled, Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices. I read it in the morning and was very moved by it but had no comm...
This is a wonderful article that Chris Kresser first published on his blog, The Healthy Skeptic, a little over a year ago. I linked to it at the time, but knowing that many people don't follow link...
psychology without poetry is hollow: the humanities carry the wisdom of humankind’s search for itself, and the arts bring a creative vitality that psychology cannot do without if it wants to be worthy of the inner lives of its patients.