4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (302+ words) Updated September 1, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods Psychoanalysis is sometimes portrayed as standing in opposition to the medical model of mental illness. According to this familiar account, psychiatry concerns itself with diagnosis, classification, and disease, while psychoanalysis is interested in meaning,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (214+ words) Posted September 3, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley But what about that word “madness”? Why do I use that term instead of "mental illness" or something else? Here’s where it can get complicated for a historian. Historians don’t like using anachronistic terms…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (648+ words) Posted August 20, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson The gut-brain axis has caught the attention of the world, revealing that our gut plays an intriguing role in…...

1+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (137+ words) Posted August 4, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk In Part 2 of this series, I defined the term "clinical wisdom" and how it can be employed in psychotherapy, as, for example, to begin with, in the management of expectations about treatment on the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1130+ words) Posted August 11, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods Why will one person work steadily toward a positive long-term goal, while another spends their entire day doing everything possible to find and use alcohol, cocaine, opioids, nicotine, or other drugs—despite knowing the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (715+ words) Posted August 15, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Modern psychiatry finds itself grappling with a dilemma. Its present guiding scientific philosophy or theory seems outdated to many in psychiatry, and they push for the modern systems approach now employed by all sciences…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (328+ words) Updated August 14, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch That story is not wrong, exactly. But a study published this month in Nature Mental Health suggests it is considerably more incomplete than the field has assumed (Hamilton et al., 2026). Some findings confirmed the…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (650+ words) Updated August 14, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch You know the version of recovery you were promised: mood lifts, sleep improves, you start feeling like yourself again. What nobody always mentioned is the gap. The period, sometimes weeks, sometimes much longer, where…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (332+ words) Posted August 12, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch That story is not wrong, exactly. But a study published this month in Nature Mental Health suggests it is considerably more incomplete than the field has assumed (Hamilton et al., 2026). Some findings confirmed the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (748+ words) Psychology Today The Holistic Psychologist and the Ethics of Psychology Personal integrity is what we do when nobody is looking. Posted August 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods - A therapy license should mean the same thing whether a therapist is speaking to…...