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Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from August 2006
Your brain and psychotherapy.
August 1, 2006... Are there consistent underlying features of therapeutic change?
Early in his career, Sigmund Freud conceived what he called a project for a scientific psychology, linking an understanding of the mind to an understanding of the brain and its...
Cognitive reserve.(intellectual abilities may cause mental disorders)
August 1, 2006... People with more years of education, more intellectually demanding occupations, or higher IQs are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. A meta-analysis of 20 studies including more than 30,000 subjects, indicates a fairly close and...
Mental health courts.
August 1, 2006... Since the mid-1950s mental hospitals have been emptied without sufficient provision for the care of patients in the community. Too often, no one is taking responsibility for helping them. The institutions and organizations that are supposed to...
In Brief; Treatment of alcoholism: New results.(Clinical report)
August 1, 2006... In 1997, Project MATCH -- sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) -- found that three psychosocial treatments for alcoholism were all about equally effective: cognitive behavioral therapy to correct distorted...
In Brief; Fighting fear with a stress hormone.(use of cortisol)
August 1, 2006... Swiss researchers have found that artificially raising levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is normally released by the adrenal glands in frightening situations, can paradoxically relieve performance anxiety and phobias.
In one...
Commentary; Diagnosing personality disorders.(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual from American Psychiatric Association)
August 1, 2006... The Austrian-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber once wrote, "Every person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique." This attractive sentiment seems to make the notion of a...