From Pacific Standard, this is a brief review of new research around the efficacy of deep brain stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of various types of psychological distress (depression, bipolar, and so on). Their results suggest that brain networks might be used to understand why brain stimulation works and to improve this … Read more
In recent years, science is finally beginning to grasp the obvious fact that the human body is a system, so that when something goes wrong in one part of the organism, it has effects in other parts of the organism as well. The most obvious example of this is the new focus on the microbiome … Read more
George Atwood is one of the co-founders (with Robert Stolorow and others) of the intersubjective systems theory model of post-Freudian, relational psychoanalysis. He is professor emeritus in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. He also is the author of The Abyss of Madness (2011), one of the best books I have ever read about working with … Read more
This is an interesting overview of the current research on how inflammation can play a role in depression, schizophrenia, and autism. I suspect there is much more research to be done in this realm, but I believe they need to stop using pharmacological interventions targeted at a specific molecule or hormone in the immune response … Read more
Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia (2013), and in this article for The New Republic she takes a look back at 50 years since the publication of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, written by Joanne Greenberg. One of the issues raised about the book since it … Read more
This open access article from the Annals of General Psychiatry offers an interesting glimpse into the role of the psychological healer in ancient Greece, and to surprise, the role that shamanism played in their healing model. Cool stuff. Full Citation:Tzeferakos, G, and Athanasios, D. (2014, Apr 12). ‘Sacred psychiatry in ancient Greece. Annals of General … Read more