Another brilliant Onion critique of mental health…

Nation Wondering Why Struggling Mental Health System Can’t Just Pull Itself Together Quit Feeling Sorry For Yourself And Make An Effort,’ Citizens Say Americans say they want the nation’s mental health system to get better, but admit they are fed up with it just languishing in its own misery and doing nothing to help itself. […]
Read more...Overcoming Difficulties in Working with Masochism with Asher Kahn at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES IN WORKING WITH MASOCHISM Saturday, APRIL 5, 2014 Presenter: ASHER KAHN, Ph.D. In this clinical workshop Dr. Kahn will present material that will elucidate an approach to working with masochism. As therapists we listen, try to be understanding […]
Read more...Mental Health: Parity Yes, Providers No

Click Here to Read: Mental Health: Parity Yes, Providers No By Ben Hartman, MD, on The Gupta Guide on the Medpage Today website on February 7, 2014.
The Adolescent Neurosis in Fact and Fiction with Theodore Jacobs at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH and THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY THE ADOLESCENT NEUROSIS IN FACT AND FICTION Saturday, JANUARY 25, 2014 , Presenter: THEODORE JACOBS, M.D. Dr. Theodore Jacobs will discuss and read from his novel The Year of Durocher and his paper “The Adolescent Neurosis” to illustrate the subject […]
Read more...L Ron Hubbard’s Danetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

Click Here to Read: L Ron Hubbard’s Danetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health on the lermanet.com website.
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When Long-Term Therapy is Not Long Enough with Douglas Ingram at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH and THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY WHEN LONG-TERM THERAPY IS NOT LONG ENOUGH Saturday, DECEMBER 7, 2013 Presenter: DOUGLAS H. INGRAM, M.D. Who are the patients who stay in treatment indefinitely, patients for whom the traditional notion of long-term therapy – with a termination date – […]
Read more...When Long-Term Therapy is Not Enough at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH and THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY WHEN LONG-TERM THERAPY IS NOT LONG ENOUGH Saturday, DECEMBER 7, 2013 Presenter: DOUGLAS H. INGRAM, M.D. Who are the patients who stay in treatment indefinitely, patients for whom the traditional notion of long-term therapy – with a termination date – […]
Read more...Mental health in prisons: It’s a crime

Click Here to Read: Mental health in prisons: It’s a crime. With nowhere else to turn, prisons are stepping up to the challenge of treating mentally ill offenders by Jonathan Martin in the Seattle Times on October 19, 2013. Offenders in the Intensive Management Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex sit in a class chained to their […]
Read more...Under the microscope: The effect of loneliness on physical and mental health

Click Here to Read: Under the microscope: The effect of loneliness on physical and mental health By Ruchi Shah on The Statesman of Stoney Brook University website on October 3, 2013. Turhan Canli, Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience, plans to continue examining differentially expressed hereditary and epigenetic genes. (JIA YAO / THE STATESMAN) Click Here […]
Read more...Understanding anxiety and mental health stigma

Click Here to Read: Understanding anxiety and mental health stigma. On the one hand, anxiety is a serious and debilitating disorder. On the other, it can be a useful evolutionary response to threat. Understanding how anxiety works might help to destigmatise mental health issues by Pete Etchells on the Guardian website on September 27, 2013.
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