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Featured Member of the Week: Colette Dowling, LMSW
"In our work together my patients learn how to listen to their own voices, figure out how they really want to live, and develop the courage to stand behind themselves, whether they're in a relationship or living on their own. I help them explore past relationships and ways they learned to defend themselves that might be contributing to their problems in love. We work at the patient's pace. The atmosphere is one of warmth and calm, where a feeling of safety is paramount."
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What is Real Love?
By Colette Dowling, LMSW
True love is not only hard to find, it’s also hard to tolerate. All of us have been wounded in some way, either by early love relationships or later ones. Naturally, we create defenses to avoid getting hurt again - but we also maintain defenses against love itself. Why?
Where Did I Come From? What do I say to my kids about donor-assisted reproduction?
By Sharon Schwartz, Ph.D.
The late 1970’s saw the birth of the first “test-tube” baby. That baby has since grown up and become a mother herself. Children do best when they know where they come from; that refers to both a genetic history as well as a relationship history. Feelings of betrayal are stimulated when secrets are kept and then inevitably found out. So the first step in considering what, how, when and even if to talk your children is to examine your own feelings.
Unraveling Anxiety’s Tangled Knot
By Robert Gerzon, LMHC
Anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem in America, affecting one out of six Americans each year. During the last few years the word anxiety has escaped the bounds of psychology and leaped into the larger social, economic and political arena. Our minds are oversaturated with contradictory worldviews. Anxiety thrives on this uncertainty and confusion.
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Unemployment, Chronic Pain and Depression Can Be Inextricably Connected
After relationship difficulties, unemployment is the most likely thing to push someone into a bad depression. This isn’t surprising, since work is often a significant source of an individual’s sense of worth and self-esteem. For many, depression first shows up in physical symptoms, such as headaches, gastrointestinal distress, and sexual dysfunction.
New Grant Supports Stem Cell-Derived Model of Autism-Related Illness
For the first time, researchers are developing a test tube model of Rett syndrome, a debilitating autism-like illness, in neurons derived from human autism-like illness. The new study addresses a crucial gap in understanding the workings of the rare autism spectrum disorder.
New Therapies Show Promise for Vascular Depression for the Elderly
Researchers see new treatments on the horizon for a type of depression related to blood vessels that affects the elderly, and have discovered why some elderly people fail to respond to current medications.
Gene Variations and Depression
For what appears to be the first time in humans, scientists have detected an interaction between genes that may help prevent brain changes that increase vulnerability to depression.
Antipsychotic Medications May Ease Some Alzheimer’s Symptoms, Not Others
Antipsychotic medications may lessen symptoms like hostility and aggression in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, but do not appear to lessen other symptoms or improve quality of life, according to a recent analysis of data from the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness Alzheimer’s Disease (CATIE-AD) study. The analysis was published June 2, 2008, in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
PTSD Can Lead to a More Severe Course and Worse Outcomes When Coupled With Substance Abuse
The first multi-center study of PTSD among individuals seeking treatment for an SUD has found a greater prevalence of PTSD among those who were drug- rather than alcohol-dependent, and that having PTSD was associated with a more severe course and worse outcome for an SUD.
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