Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from August 2004

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from August 2004

Interpersonal psychotherapy.
August 1, 2004... Crises and changes in personal relationships are the chief concern of an increasingly popular therapeutic technique. A form of brief therapy introduced 35 years ago as a treatment for depression is gradually coming into more common use in...

Brief treatment for problem drinkers.
August 1, 2004... According to national surveys, nearly a third of Americans consume more than the FDA-recommended two drinks a day for men and one for women. These people usually have stable jobs and families, and most of them do not qualify for a diagnosis of...

Enriching children's minds.
August 1, 2004... Two experiments in enrichment, one deliberate and one accidental, show how poverty can affect children's emotions and behavior. In the first study, conducted on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, improved nutrition at a critical...

Prejudiced by anger.
August 1, 2004... Most of us are familiar with the experience of displaced anger. Human beings occasionally have a propensity to take out resentment with an unrelated cause on some unoffending object or person. When prejudicial stereotypes are circulating in a...

Questions & Answers.
August 1, 2004... Q What is Symbyax, the new drug being marketed for the treatment of bipolar depression? A Introduced in early 2004, Symbyax combines two medicines in one pill: the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) and the antipsychotic drug olanzapine...